Bruce Byfield, avoiding a look back at his last years’ predictions, looks ahead and makes nine specific predictions about what to expect in 2010.

In 2010, application developers will continue to be asked to do more with less. During the global financial meltdown of the past year, the amount of work didn’t change while resources were dramatically pared back. The result was that new projects suffered. Talking with application development leaders today, there is more optimism. While [...]

In the past ten years, Linux has gone from being an operating system for geeks to being everyone’s operating system. 

One of the unusual aspects of open source is the fact that the software development philosophy spills over into the way that the project is run.

Packet Fence bundles many useful and powerful network protection tools into an attractive, integrated package. Such as network access control, monitoring, intrusion detection, VLAN isolation, DHCP fingerprinting, and captive portal. Eric Geier introduces us to this protective powerhouse.

The newest version of the open-source browser won’t arrive this year, and a major update might not arrive until 2011. But there are plenty of features coming.

Chinese-language consumers unwilling or unable to pay the cost of a legitimate copy of Microsoft’s Windows XP now have a new alternative: a clone of the operating system that’s based on Ubuntu. Dubbed “Ylmf OS,” the software is available from Rain Forest Wind Guangdong Computer Technology as a free download on a dedicated Web site. [...]

Can’t decide between software RAID or a hardware RAID controller? You may not have to, now that AMD has release its “RAID on CPU” server processors.

With just a few days left to 2009, the mood on the Linux blogs has been uncharacteristically quiet and contemplative. Mostly gone are the fire and vitriol so often seen in the community’s many contentious debates, replaced instead by discussions of a kinder, gentler nature. To wit: Linux Today’s Carla Schroder recently penned an Editor’s [...]

The year that loved smartphones, scripting languages, the cloud, and open source was not always kind to developers…