You're probably familiar with using makefiles to build executables from source code. But did you know that GNU make can automate many tasks? Juliet Kemp teaches us how.

Eighteen months after releasing a first version of the standard for programming heterogeneous parallel computers, the industry consortium has presented an updated version of OpenCL

In this post I will explain how to install Nginx with PHP 5.3.2 and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04-amd64). The Lucid release is a Long-Term Support (LTS), meaning that it will be supported for three years on the desktop and for five years with the server version.

The Khronos Group announced version 1.1 of OpenCL, the multiprocessor programming standard. OpenCL 1.1 features a variety of enhancements, the one that really caught my eye was Improved OpenGL interoperability through efficient sharing of images and buffers by linking OpenCL event objects to OpenGL fence sync object. That'll come in handy.

The alarm has rung several times before and each time the snooze button was pressed. This time, just recently, the alarm has rung with yet another compromised download resulting in another Linux trojan back door. The time has come for us to stop hitting that snooze button.

As we wrote recently, KVM has a lot to recommend it as a virtualization solution in Ubuntu 10.04, especially in the server room.  But how ready is it for the desktop, and can it contend with applications like VirtualBox when it comes to ease-of-use?  Read on for a comparison of two of the Ubuntu world's most popular virtualization products, and some thoughts on which one is better for desktop us

Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick version 3.0 and the Sugar Creation Kit, a downloadable DVD image that also includes a library of Sugar Activities and documentation