In today's open source roundup: DistroWatch looks at how touch interfaces perform in various Linux desktop environments. Plus: Linus shares his thoughts about computing security. And a review of ...

Take, for example, the open-source Elisa media center. Developed by Fluendo, Elisa is a 3-D media center—one of the most sophisticated alternatives to software such as Windows Media Center available ...

Various bits of the interface have been polished—settings in Cinnamon Settings are now sorted alphabetically, for example. Linux Mint 17.1’s Cinnamon desktop.

However, to simply view the settings on your network interface, type “ethtool” followed by the name of your network interface (e.g. eth0). In the examples below, we’re looking at a network ...

In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you can easily deal with USB devices from user space, which, for many ...

Figure 1 illustrates a first example of real-time behavior under Linux using the frank example. As with normal Linux traces displayed by LTT, horizontal lines represent time spent in a certain state ...

In a recent blog entry, lead Mono developer Miguel de Icaza expressed interest in using the new Ribbon interface components in a future version of MonoDevelop, an open source IDE for C# programming.