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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.

4PSA, a technology leader in cloud communication software, has announced today the successful integration between VoipNow Professional, its award-winning Unified Communications solution, and Parallels Automation, the popular operations and business automation system for service providers.

With Unity getting most of the attention lately in Ubuntu and the feature-freeze coming in tomorrow, I decided to take the latest Kubuntu alpha for a spin and see how KDE 4.8 for netbooks looks and behaves. But first, a little about 12.04 as a whole.

Developers, tired of what they perceive as IT obstruction, are opting for NoOps where they provision resources using PaaS. It's working great and smart CIOs would be wise to let it continue

Apple-approved software welcome, desktop is the new fondleslab Apple released a developer preview of Mountain Lion today before the new operating system is let out of its cage in the summer.…

A quick tutorial on switching from FreeNAS to Ubuntu for a fileserver.

Intilop’s CTO, K. Masood to Present “How TCP Offload Engines scale up the TCP traffic bandwidth by up to 8x on existing Ethernet Networks”, at the Ethernet Summit in San Jose, CA USA.

I installed MS Office Professional 2010 on my Ubuntu computers and it's working fluently.

The BEST way to make a custom launcher in KDE without adding anything extra...

This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers and Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and /var/vmail (email account data) folders.

BBC creating new open source cross-platform education based IDE that will run on Raspberry Pi and Linux

RebeccaBlackOS is an Ubuntu remix dedicated to Rebecca Black, American pop singer and dancer. Besides a custom theme, the live CD also offers an opportunity to try out the Wayland display server. RebeccaBlackOS Screenshot Tour

Accessibility to computers for people with vision, hearing, or physical impairments needs to be a part of fundamental design, and not an afterthought. Progress in the proprietary world is slow, and even slower in the Linux/FOSS world. But thanks to some dedicated people some significant work has been accomplished, and the groundwork laid for a common platform for all Linux distributions to build on.

Android is cool but not cool enough to convince anyone to use it exclusively. You’ll have to support Apple too.

All right everyone, there is a good news. Pre-orders for KDE Plasma Active/Mer based tablet Spark has just started. Plasma Active is a joint project by the KDE community, basysKom and open-slx. The goals for this open source project are to deliver a fast embedded UX platform with minimal memory requirements, provide customizable and modular to support different form factors and design an interface that adapts as users change Activities. Plasma Active is intended for all types of tablets, smartphones and touch computing devices such as settop boxes, smart TVs, home automation or in-vehicle infotainment.

Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper 0.4.2 has been released, this is a bug fix release that comes to fix this critical reported bug , in addition to the bug fix, this release added the option to move the earth instead of the sunlight (beta), added the option the center maps position, Moon image option now changes only once a day, added dependencies: curl and graphics magick-image magick-compat