What does it mean for a browser to be fast? It turns out to be a bit hard to pin down, really. I was asked about this and tried to give a lightning talk at the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit on how we think about application speed in general but I think I didn't make my points well, so I thought I'd try to expand a bit here on what you ought to consider when comparing browsers.

Security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.

This 6-part article series presents new features and improvements in the new version of the best Linux partition manager. Presented are mount management, SMART status reports, support for 4096-Byte sectors, improved size dialog, new configuration options, GPT partition tables, new file systems support, partition table import/export, shredding...

Fedora 13 was released last week with a number of new features, but how does its performance compare to that of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which was released a month earlier? Using the 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Fedora 13 we tested them independently.

Learn how to create and manage hard and symbolic links to files on your Linux® system. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to explore the differences between hard and soft, or symbolic, links and the best ways to link to files, as opposed to copying files.

This post contains common different methods of functional partitioning and common considerations for database setup and capacity.

Following the recent success of the Humble Indie Bundle, developer Cryptic Sea has released the source code for its 2D physics based Gish platform game