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EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is small and portable desktop environment designed to be lightweight in memory and resource usage.

Almost the entire public sector, 96 percent, is using open source, says a French market survey. The most used applications are database management systems and content management systems.

The Italy-based Sabayon community released a stable version 5.0 of its Gentoo-based Linux distribution. Sabayon Linux 5.0 is available in separate editions with either the GNOME 2.26 or KDE 4.3.1 desktops, and moves up to Linux kernel 2.6.31, XBMC 9.04.1, and the Ext4 filesystem.

Alpine is like pine, and Pine Is Not Elm. If you are still with me on this, you might be the kind of person who appreciates command line text base email systems . And if you are, and you are just installing alpine, this is how to make it remember your passwords.

The quotas mini-course is designed to help you implement quotas for users and groups. Quotas are a way to guarantee resources for your users. The guarantee of resources to your users is fundamental to good system administration. When users run out of space there is always trouble and you can be sure as administrator that trouble will be pointed at you. Whenever you implement quotas with users it is a good idea to create soft limits which provide them a warning for 7 days but during that time they can still save.

Not every open source project could support successful businesses. In part 2 of the series "An Open Source Business," we talk about what is required for an open source project to become a successful business.

Red Hat and Microsoft have deepened their partnership even further in the virtualization realm under the concept of "interoperabiity." Cross-certification should lead to more satisfied customers.

In the last several years, governments — and particularly those in Europe — have been snapping up Open Source alternatives like little old ladies at Loehmann's. The push towards Open continued this week as the Dutch police ditched Windows for the rosy cap.

Looks like Dell is trying to get into the cell phone business, creating an open source Android phone, distributed by AT&T, but Dell has tried gadgets before and failed. Is there any reason to believe it would be different now?

This PCPro story says "Microsoft is planning to make Windows 8 an 128-bit operating system, according to details leaked from the software giant's Research department." Is this really a big deal? Are we going to need 128-bit filesystems?

Welcome to our semi-annual prize drawing. We have a unique if not a collectors item offered as first prize so let's get to the good stuff. The Larado Quadrado

Red Hat and Microsoft have deepened their partnership even further in the virtualization realm under the concept of "interoperabiity." Cross-certification should lead to more satisfied customers.

We've been impressed with the speed increases that rooting and moving apps to SD cards can bring to sometimes sluggish Android phones. If you're not about to crack your phone's firmware, the AndroidGuys blog suggests a few optimization tips.

Mozilla LABS has released Weave 0.7. This tool lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you to all your Firefox browsers independent of the platform it runs on.

The availability of netbooks that ride on the maturity of cloud infrastructure is heralding the return of the thin client, says Jolicloud founder and CEO, Tariq Krim. Krim, who earlier founded personalized homepage service Netvibes, told ZDNet Asia the "thin client concept is "more feasible now than ever", and is targeting his new Jolicloud OS squarely at this niche.

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database used by Postfix.

MResult Healthcare and PatientOS announced today a new cost-effective solution for implementing Electronic Medical Records. Based on the Open Source (GPL v3) Healthcare Information System PatientOS EMR and MResult Healthcare's Design, Build Validate methodology, this approach will allow healthcare institutions to implement tailored Electronic Medical Record systems for a fraction of the cost of traditional EMR systems.

I was telling you about my issues with scrolling in Firefox (see #6). Well, I didn't manage to fix that for Firefox 3.5 but instead, I installed Firefox 3.6 beta 1 pre (Namoroka) and the scrolling now works perfectly (thanks to Tinhed for the tip!). Also, basically everything feels a lot faster, at least in Ubuntu. This is why I suggest you upgrade to Firefox 3.6.

A simple and practical tutorial of a full installation of Puppy Linux 4.3 from a CD ,on an internal hard disk.

Dell’s U.S. website has finally made good on a promise to re-introduce an Ubuntu desktop PC. The move should silence critics who were worried that Dell wasn’t committed to the growing Ubuntu desktop and mobile markets.