A boot time test as a rule brings more criticism than praise for the tester, seeing that the tests are usually considered flawed. A new test has fixed all that.

This month we show you some tools for optimizing disks, speeding up web servers, and building custom parallel applications.

Google Maps Navigation provides Android 2.0 users with a free and comfortable navigation software. Every user? No. The software is currently available in the USA only, and for one mobile.

The Linux-Kongress is traditionally where kernel developers exchange honors and advice about new features and enhancements. This year a number of speakers presented performance improvement data and discussed what aspects of Linux can be drawn out even more.

Today Linux distributor Canonical announced the official release of Ubuntu 9.10, code-named Karmic Koala.

OpenSUSE awards two old and one new executive board positions to two community members and a Novell employee.

OpenThinClient, a Linux-based thinclient solution is available in version 0.4.5. The numerous enhancements to the open source suite include support for touchscreens.