Eric Geier continues his series on how to set up a VPN server, from stepping though enabling the OpenVPN server, installing SSL certificates, and configuring clients and testing.

There will always be a place for relational databases, but non-relational solutions are proving to be fast, flexible, and scalable for many tasks.

Personal data about millions of Android users could be sent to a mysterious Chinese website thanks to a set of wallpaper apps in the Android Market. That’s according to mobile security firm Lookout, which discovered the questionable apps as part of its new App Genome Project, an effort to identify security threats in the wild [...]

Fans of KDE3 refuse to give up and will not let it die. Timothy Pearson talks about his KDE3 fork, Trinity, and its chances for success.

The recent history of the Amarok music player is like a scaled-down version of KDE’s recent past. Like KDE 4, the Amarok 2 series was greeted with a user revolt, and a fork: Clementine.

During GUADEC 2010, the GNOME Release Team met and decided to hold the GNOME 3.0 release for the March 2011 release instead of September 2010. Even though it means an additional six months to GNOE 3.0 is officially released, it could be a good thing.

The official release of Eclipse 4.0 SDK, which reworks the underlying platform of the IDE, is now available for early adopters. Production users will have to wait for tools to be updated to feel the benefit…

.NET for Android - dubbed MonoDroid - has come a step closer.……

At last week's OSCON conference, the big topic on the minds of open sourcers was whether or not an open source social networking offering can break down the walled gardens of popular services such as Facebook, and win…

Nokia has unveiled a knock-off of Opera's Mini phone browser, intended for use on its low-end handsets in emerging markets. It's the first manifestation of Nokia's own ad engine.……