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This guide describes how to easily configure your Fedora 9 installation. Learn how to upgrade from Fedora 7/8, add extra repositories, configure audio and video playback, install everyday needed applications and increase your system's performance and usability! Plus you can learn how to access your Windows Partitions and Shared folders, install Compiz-Fusion, SUN's JAVA, KDE and much more.

WebVZ is one of the simplest and most powerful web management tools for OpenVZ. This tutorial shows how to install it on a Debian Etch system.

In April we had looked at the ECS A780GM-A v1.0 motherboard, which boasted AMD's new Radeon HD 3200 graphics. For being an integrated graphics solution, we were certainly pleased with the performance, as it had performed about the same as the discrete Radeon HD 2400PRO. With the success of the AMD 780G Chipset, we have decided to look at another one of these motherboards. This time around we are looking at the ASRock A780FullDisplayPort, which as the name implies it offers a DisplayPort connection for the integrated graphics.

Everybody who owns a computer will someday need to dispose of a disk drive. Before you do, it is a good idea to cleanse the drive, so no one can read your sensitive information. Deleting files and reformatting is not sufficient; determined effort can still reveal data from a drive even after it appears to be gone. To do a more thorough job, I suggest using wipe.

Quick tutorial on using the dlpiping command to troubleshoot VCS errors at the LLT protocol layer.

Novell Thursday reported net income of $5.8 million for its fiscal 2008 second quarter pulling earnings up from a loss of $2.8 million in the same quarter last year. The company said it showed healthy growth in its core business units around the Linux operating system, identity/access management software and systems management tools.

What a geek and "average joe" would do with a Wii on the first day, after a month, and after a year.

Among its list of top ten tech problems are open source software and the popular music player iTunes, according to BDNA's survey of its customers.

Once you have the proper Ubuntu repository added to get Childsplay (is it Universe?), in order to get sound for GCompris, Childsplay and Tuxpaint, make sure to add the proper packages. For some reason, the sound packages aren't added as dependencies.

If you need a free Web development environment, look no further than Eclipse. The JavaScript Development Toolkit (JSDT) is an open source plug-in that brings robust JavaScript programming tools to Eclipse. JSDT streamlines development, simplifies code, and increases productivity for pure JavaScript source files and JavaScript embedded in HTML.

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit held on April 8-10 in Austin, Texas, may have been invitation only, but fortunately the LF has posted videos for the rest of us. The videos include keynotes from Red Hat and Sun/MYSQL, and a panel on Linux PCs.

SIMchronise, a mobile technologies company based in the United Kingdom, recently launched a mobile data backup service called PhoneBackup.eu that is built on the Open Mobile Alliance's Data Synchronization and Device Management standard (a.k.a. SyncML). SIMchronise principal Philippe Joly says that with the "high number of device models and manufacturers" of wireless phones, open standards make it easier for companies to provide data synchronization services.

After all the heat Psystar took in the blogosphere for its erstwhile Macintosh clone -- a commodity box that can run OS X -- many said the company was either a sham or about to fade quickly away. Well, in recent days, the company has begun offering its own Mac updates for Psystar Hackintosh users, pledges more surprises in the future and is also offering a pretty nice $299 computer called the OpenLite that runs many versions of Linux and has pretty nice specs for the price. While they used to preinstall only Ubuntu, the most recent announcement has them also willing to install CentOS and Fedora for those who want them.

OpenSolaris 2008.05 refused to do just about anything on every computer I've tried, but the OpenSolaris-based MilaX runs like the proverbial wind on most of those boxes. So I figured it was time to try BeleniX, another project that brings a GUI and live-CD environment to OpenSolaris.

As the clock ticks down, the appeals are piling up objecting to OOXML's approval by ISO/IEC. The latest appeal was sent today by Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), the National Body representing Brazil, and a trusted source has sent me a copy (other knowledgeable sources tell me that as many as two additional appeals are likely to be filed before the clock runs out). Brazil's appeal objects to some of the same issues raised by South Africa, but also includes a laundry list of actions and inactions at the BRM that have also been well-aired in blog posts by BRM participants, including refusals to hear a proposal urged by Brazil, poor decisions based not on good results but on expediency, and much more.

KeyTouch is an application designed to allow you to make full use of all the special function keys on your keyboard, whether the hardware supports Linux or not. It's a great idea, especially with all the multimedia applications that come standard with today's PCs. But as is often the case, the devil is in the implementation details. Marvin Raaijmakers wrote the first version of KeyTouch in 2004, after finding he could not configure the extra function keys on a new keyboard he had just bought. Today, KeyTouch is included in most modern distributions (Mandriva, openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu, to name a few) and the project is actively seeking packagers for other distributions.

Everyone knows the drama of Microsoft and Yahoo. Or at least, most know the most recent developments, as the series' beginning at the end of January has been so long-running and drawn out that many have put the early developments out of mind. When DailyTech last reported on the ongoing drama, billionaire Icahn was preparing his board ouster with the help of potential future board member and vocal billionaire blogger Mark Cuban. Microsoft said that it didn't want Yahoo, when Yahoo expressed fresh interest, but it softened a bit and applied for FTC approval of buying a portion of Yahoo stock to help Icahn, a pro-merger enthusiast, succeed in his takeover bid.

In this article by Chang Sau Sheong, we learn how to create a Job Board Mashup Application using Ruby on Rails and Facebook. This application allows the user to perform some functions and features of a job board. Through this article, we will be able to acquire candidates through Facebook and search for jobs.

In this final installment to the series I'll double your reading pleasure by presenting two new Linux softsynths. Such a deal, two reviews for the price of one! When I wrote my article on the LinuxSampler Project I noted the distinction between a performance sampler and a studio sampler. It occurs to me now that the same distinction should be made with regards to synthesizers. The synthesizers profiled in this review are best considered as performance synths, so let's see what makes the difference.

Mandriva 2008 Spring Powerpack is a great, easy Linux OS to use. Mandiva's subscription service is a bonus and worth the money. Just a few less coffees a year and you too can get on board with Mandriva!