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Rdesktop is an "open source client for connecting to Windows Remote Desktop Services." This post covers how to install and use it as well as how to configure Windows to accept rdesktop connections, and how to open an RDP connection to the same Windows machine from Linux.

Microsoft and Google are settling their patent disputes which entrains everything from smartphones to video game consoles. The two companies have agreed to drop over 20 lawsuits they filed in the US and Germany.

Microsoft has partnered with Hortonworks and Canonical to launch a big data solution – Azure HDInsight -- which is a Hadoop managed service in the cloud.

Today we look at Yakuake, the drop down terminal emulator for KDE. This application is part of The KDE Extragear collection, hosted on KDE-Apps.org. You can also download it from KDE.org's Yakuake mirror page.

If you've ever encountered a Fontconfig warning, there are a couple changes you can make to prevent and fix this annoying problen in Linux.

Pigs haven't taken flight; aliens haven’t invaded; hell hasn’t frozen over. But... Microsoft has created an OS powered by Linux. Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) "is a cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking built on Linux," explains Kamala Subramaniam, Principal Architect, Azure Networking.

On September 15, the LibreItalia Association announced that the Italian Ministry of Defense Information Systems is switching to LibreOffice. ITworld reached out to Italo Vignoli, the co-founder of The Document Foundation (TDF), the nonprofit organization behind the LibreOffice suite, to learn more about the move.

Jono Bacon, the former Community Manager of Ubuntu, changed tracks last year when he quit Canonical and joined XPRIZE, a company not very well known within open source circles.

Rackspace joins Canonical's Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) program, will now offer Ubuntu across their platform, including public and private clouds, OnMetal, as well as dedicated and hybrid environments.

The KDE community just released Plasma 5.4, a major update to their desktop environment and it continues to shows the prowess of this ‘leaderless’ community.

If you've been using vim as if it's simply a replacement for vi, you might be surprised by the many things it can do.

This makes India the first region in which the Linux Foundation will offer country-specific pricing on select training and certification products. The foundation has announced the availability of country-specific pricing for its Essentials of System Administration course and Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator exam for individuals in India. This makes India the first region in which the Linux Foundation will offer country-specific pricing on select training and certification products.

The move makes good on an earlier statement by Angel Calvo, Microsoft's PowerShell Team Group Software Engineering Manager, that they won't be just adopting openSSH, they will also be contributing to it.

It's Stallman's philosophy that 'a program must not restrict what jobs its users do with it' -- and that includes the NSA.

What ISO 27001 auditors will be looking for from Unix sysadmins. If your Unix/Linux servers are to be involved in an ISO 27001 audit, there are a lot of things you should be doing ahead of time to ensure that they won't end up generating findings. The key to getting a Unix system to pass an ISO 27001 audit is knowing what the auditors are likely to ask and what they will need to see.

There are only two times when you need to dig through piles of data to get your job done -- when you know what you're looking for and when you don't. The best tools and techniques will depend on which of these two situations you're facing.

Ubuntu has been making big promises since 2011 when they chose Unity to be at the center of their universe. And while they failed to deliver on Ubuntu TV or Ubuntu for Android, they've got other tricks up their sleeves.

After introducing Unity, HUD, Mir, Click and Snappy the sponsor of Ubuntu is now contemplating moving away from just .deb based desktop and adopting its own Snappy.

CoreOS gets $12 million funding from Google Ventures, announces Tectonic

The next major release of Gnome (3.16) is scheduled to be released on March 25. Here is a pre-release, sneak peek.