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There's nothing like free software to save some drain on your storage management or data protection budget -- if that free software works, of course. Here are 10 storage utilities you can download and start using to manage your storage-area network (SAN), deploy network-attached storage (NAS) or monitor and assess the privacy of your network.

Site offer Another week, another offer. This week the techies atRegister Books thought we'd offer a helping hand to all those who ply their trade in Java, the OO, platform independent programming language.

Hello everybody, and welcome once again to the fortnightly newsletter of Free Software Magazine: keeping you well informed about the realm of free software! Happy reading!

After a year of considerable success in IT and media, Vietnam will now have to face a series of issues, one of which is the software copyright problem. It wasn’t a coincidence that one of the 10 most important IT and media events chosen by Vietnam IT Reporters’ Club was Microsoft’s starting to “harvest” revenues in Vietnam. This is a good sign to copyright owners of course. Yet, at the same time, it signals the large amount of money Vietnamese computer users will have to pay for copyrights in the coming years.

New VoIP call recording software, from Arcosoft works with any SIP-based VoIP system. The centralised system works with port mirroring and without desktop client installation. Previously available only for Windows, the VONaLink TeamRecord for Linux from Arcosoft offers a way to record VoIP calls for an entire workgroup.

The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 is the first-ever desktop motherboard supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This state-of-the-art motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD's latest Socket AM2.

A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.

The Ubuntu GNU/Linux project is not a charity. Rather, founder Mark Shuttleworth says his aim is to build a distribution "which is freely available, showcases the best of free software and is sustainable in its own right."

Alright, I’m going to say this. I think Microsoft should acquire Linux. Now, I understand that Linux is not as independent of an OS as Windows; it’s a movement towards the open environment for applications; therefore, the standard M&A process won’t work.

Apache Web server found Brian Behlendorf has been confirmed as a speaker at the first Digital Freedom Expo to be held in Cape Town in April.

The NOC will help the UK to benefit from open source and open standards by developing strategic analysis and policy, clarifying opportunities and fostering innovation.

Considering the inclusion of Red Hat with Dell on the server level, you might have thought that this would have happened a long time ago. Well, better late than never, I suppose. I have just discovered that Dell is looking into bundling the big three Linux distributions (OpenSuSE, Ubuntu and Fedora) to those who might be interested.

We're pumped for a real showdown in the upcoming months, since the Linux community has just launched Show Us the Code, a website / movement humoring Steve Ballmer's repeated claims of burgled Microsoft IP within the open source OS -- accusations he's been making ever since Microsoft and Novell went into cahoots with each other back in November. The grassroots organization challenges Ballmer to bring it on: if Microsoft forks over the evidence by May 1st, Linux developers will alter their code accordingly to maintain freeware status.

OTRS is a trouble ticket system with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. This guide is specifically intended to help install and run OTRS.

"Apple hasn't done any of those things." Bill, seriously, Apple has not needed to do any of the following as they do not make a practice out of egging on hackers to exploit their OS. That and Apple’s market share is not as large as Windows, therefore the time spent targeting you and yours offers a larger bang for the effort.

Recently, I upgraded my cell phone to a Motorola RAZR v3 from T-Mobile, a Bluetooth-enabled device. I wanted to copy files to this device using my Laptop running Debian testing (Etch) using command line tools. I found what I needed in a package of Bluetooth tools and daemons called BlueZ.

Falling Leaf Systems, LLC is proud to announce the availability of the initial alpha release of their Alky converter software for Linux. While only eight months old, the Alky converter can already convert the Windows Prey Demo to run natively on most modern distributions.

It's been another busy week in the LinuxQuestions Screenshots department. This week we installed and grabbed some cool screenshots of the following distributions: Kurumin 7.0, ParallelKnoppix 2.4, dyne:bolic 2.4, Linux Mint 2.2, sidux 2007-01, SimplyMEPIS 6.5 Beta 6, Ubuntu Ultimate 1.2, Vine 4.1, Damn Small Linux 3.3 RC1, Protech Beta and Puppy 2.14 Enjoy!

Frédéric G. Marand, in the PHP-GTK Community site informs you about Anúbis, a simple RAD / IDE tool which helps to build PHP-GTK applications and its interfaces in a simple way like Lazarus, Delphi, VB.

In this article we will be looking at the impact of CONFIG_NO_HZ/Dynamic Ticks, which will be found in the Linux 2.6.21 kernel. The option has been available as a patch for quite a while, but not until Linux 2.6.21-rc1 had it been merged into the upstream kernel. When enabled, there will only be timer ticks when they are needed. The end-user benefit is cooler-running processors and increased power savings. We have investigated this change with a notebook and desktop computer.