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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install RSYSLOG server on Debian 6 (Squeeze) and how to send syslog data to it from multiple client servers. We will also show how to install an Apache webserver and a MySQL database server to gather the syslog data and how to install LogAnalyzer to easily browse the collected data with a web-browser.

Cisco has appealed to the European Union's General Court, asking for the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's takeover of Skype to be made conditional. The network infrastructure company wants the EC to ensure "standards-based interoperability in the video calling space."

Ubuntu 12.04’s impending LTS release is the beginning of the end for the Lucid Lynx...

Hey! It's time again for a new Humble Bundle! But it's not the same bundle as always... This time, if you buy the bundle, your money will help charity and you will help the Mojang team (the creators of Minecraft!!) creating a brand new game in 60 hours. This game is what you pay for!!!

XBMC, the open source media center, has steadily grown from its humble origins as an X-Box only replacement environment into the cross-platform, de facto playback front-end for multimedia content. It merges the file-centric approach taken by traditional video players with an add-on scripting environment that handles remote web content. The project is currently finalizing its next major release, version 11.0 (codenamed Eden), which includes updates to the networking and video acceleration subsystems, broader hardware support, and numerous changes to the APIs available to add-on developers.

Even though Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the U.S., and even though there were 10 billion Android app downloads as of December 2011, many Android users are frustrated that they're still treated like a second-class app market. That's because "fragmentation" makes it more complicated to develop Android apps that will run on most Android phones. New research from Localytics claims that Android fragmentation might be becoming less of a issue.

This we look at an Android security overview overview video, why legacy code means a slow transition from Win7 to Win8 and the developing textbook battle between open source and proprietary formats.

While the Windows environment would represent the fine, civilized Kansas City, with its boardwalks, ladies in full-skirt regalia and parasols, Linux represents the best and the worst of the old west....Tombstone in its glory days. Muddy streets, bar brawls, gunfights and lowlife ruffians harassing the occasional good citizen with abandon. Chaos nicely contained within a Kernel.

As apps find their way into the car, it's going to be yet another place for developers to worry about -- and it has unique requirements you might not find in other mobile devices. And it's worth noting that Ford introduced an open source app development platform just today.

Window Applets is a pack of two GNOME panel applets that lets you put the window title and buttons on the top panel. Since GNOME 3, Window Applets stopped working but today, a new version has been released with support for the GNOME 3 classic / fallback panel.

The highest court in Europe, the EU Court of Justice, has just ruled that social networks cannot be forced into installing filtering systems to prevent the “unlawful use” of copyrighted works.

A German court ruled on Thursday that Motorola's smartphones infringe on an Apple patent that covers certain implementations of the iPhone's "slide-to-unlock" feature. Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz of the Munich I Regional Court awarded Apple a permanent injunction it can enforce against the sale or distribution of Motorola's Android-based smartphones within the country.

A recent study by a free software advocate has found that the use of the GNU General Public Licence family in the Debian GNU/Linux Project has been growing over the last seven years.

I didn't think installing ownCloud would be so easy, but it was. I downloaded the software from ownCloud, uploaded it to the server, created a database, did a quick setup, enabled WebDAV on my local machine to access the files via my native file manager (Nautilus in GNOME in Debian Squeeze, in case you are wondering) and was off to the races.

Autologin and passwordless login play a critical role in the physical security posture of your computer. In KDE, they are very easy to configure. But being easy to configure does not mean that you should. Why? From a security perspective, passwordless login falls in the same category as autologin. It is, therefore, not recommended to enable it for an account with management privileges.

ABLEconf's schedule for the Saturday March 24th event includes Linux performance tuning, mobile device forensics, technical recruiting, resume writing strategies for tech and big data.

Linux is no stranger to the Enterprise in 2012 but there are still quite a few "No Linux in my Data Center" holdouts and it's time for a little Linux education.

The Long Term Support release Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has reached its final stage of maintenance for this release with the Forth release Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. Now it’s available to download and the other flavor of Ubuntu with KDE desktop “Kubuntu” is available as well. The final release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin will take the place of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which suppose to be release in April 26th,2012. However, Ubuntu will keep providing support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx desktop till 2013 and till 2015 for server.

'We've got our swagger back,' says webOS cheerleader HP CEO Meg Whitman foresees a great future for webOS, the mobile operating system that her company acquired in the $1.2bn Palm deal and is now contributing to the open source community – and part of her reasoning is based on her distrust of Google.…

Untangle is one kind of firewall and gateway which is based on Debian with the features like span blocking, web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN and much more.