Why would you ever consider using a tiny Linux OS that’s only purpose is to give you a web browser? You might be surprised to find out that there are several good reasons to give it a try.

Shutter for Linux, version 0.86.3 has added a new feature of publishing at Ubuntu One cloud that works only for Ubuntu 10.04 or later. It also has new icons and some bug-fixes.

The Axon Logic Haptic Tablet can run Mac OS X in its full glory, as well as Windows and Linux. It has nice hardware specs but is priced quite high at $800.

The new technologies borrowed from Google are RFS and RPS. These help in modifying the behavior of packets in a network. RPS spreads a process into all cores.

The Indian Govt today unveiled a new low cost tablet which will be priced at $30. It will have a touchscreen display, 2 GB RAM, Linux based OS and Open Office. It was developed by the HRD ministry with teams of IIT students.

Dell is known to have offered both Windows and Ubuntu on its laptops for quite some time. This page at Dell tells you how you should choose between Windows and Ubuntu.

The team behind the Linux distro, Peppermint OS, are coming up with another OS called Peppermint Ice. Peppermint Ice is not an update to Peppermint OS; it is another version of Peppermint OS with greater focus on the cloud.

Damn Vulnerable Linux is a security distro, which can be an excellent learning tool. The distro includes older version of popular software like Apache web server, MySQL, PHP and others. The objective to create such a distro is to let users try out known hacks and vulnerabilities on these technologies and hone their skills.

After some delay, the stable version of Wine 1.2 has finally been released. This the first major Wine update in two years, and with 3000 bug fixes and 23,000 changes from the previous stable release, it is indeed a major release.

According to a report from W3 Techs, CentOS is now the most popular linux distro used in web servers.

FamilyShield is not a replacement for knowing what your kids are doing on the PC, but it’s a free and easy way to protect them, and protect yourself as well.

Spotify comes out with a Linux client.

REMnux comes pre-loaded with an array of security related tools to check network activity, check memory activity and to debug and understand browser security.

UK Prime Minister, David Cameroon, had called upon the government officials to suggest measures to cut cost. Two of the thirty one proposed ideas published by the Treasury department cost calls for moving from Microsoft products to open-source ones.

GIMP 2.8 is bring a new single-window mode. It will not be released for quite some time. So, I decided to test out the single-window interface in one of the unstable buils which will lead to GIMP 2.8.