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Poseidon Linux is designed for the international scientific community, bundling a big batch of science-oriented software into a single live DVD, plus a batch of desktop productivity and multimedia applications. Poseidon 4.0 was just released with significant changes, so let's take it for a test drive.

Ubuntu’s next release will add a host of new features to further improve its new interface. It’s still a couple of months to go to the next release of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system but many of the changes that users can look forward to are now becoming apparent. The most exciting of these are the changes planned for Ubuntu’s new user interface and includes features such as Scopes and Lenses.

The thought that a server update itself (and maybe even execute a reboot) is not actually something that makes me feel so confident, but it is certainly better than not applying patches to serious security bugs that could expose services to large risks.

Acquia announced a series of tools this week to help monitor, manage and maintain Drupal websites -- proving that monitoring is going mainstream.

Microsoft has signed a “legal covenant agreement” with Linux operating system provider China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C), and will be jointly developing, marketing and selling solutions for the Chinese cloud-computing market with that company, the pair announced on August 22.

Google published a preview version of an add-on to the Android SDK (software development kit), allowing developers to build Android applications for the Google TV 2.0 platform.

So we all complained about fglrx not working with gnome-shell and it was evil AMD closed source drivers ignoring Gnome users, at least that is what you would think. The opposite is true here it seems. As we can read in this bugzilla report. A bugzilla that is not owned by AMD.

Ereviewguide.com’s cloud computing guide steps potential users through the advantages and disadvantages to cloud computing.

scponly is an alternate shell that restricts users to SCP and SFTP logins, but disallows SSH logins. It is a wrapper to the OpenSSH suite of applications. With the help of scponly, you can allow your users to use clients such as WinSCP or FileZilla to upload/download files, but you refuse SSH logins (e.g. with PuTTY) so that your users cannot execute files/programs. This tutorial shows how to install and use scponly on Debian Squeeze.

Easy to remember but difficult to guess isn’t just a catchy phrase for choosing passwords, it’s the law of the Net. Learn how to check your password using a tool network intruders use every day: John the Ripper.

There are many great reasons to switch to GNU/Linux. We would love to hear your story as to why you made the switch.

In this article I describe how to setup the postfix Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with spampd as a before-queue content filter on Debian Squeeze

Linux Mint is a desktop-centric distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, and Linux Mint LXDE is the edition that uses the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE). This article presents a review of Linux Mint 11 LXDE, latest stable edition, which was released on August 16, 2011.

Swype just released their latest beta version 3.25 for Android phones but most of the folks are facing a “parse error” while trying to update to the latest version. If you are one of such folks, there is a simple solution that I just tried and got working.

The $99 HP TouchPad has become quite elusive, essentially selling out in the U.S. over the weekend. Much of the reason is due to what you get for this price: a color Kindle reader that doubles as a great web browser, email manager and cloud device with 50 GB of storage from Box.net. But for the tech savvy, you get even more for your money. It turns out that the TouchPad supports an Ubuntu build of Linux, which adds a whole new dimension to the now tabled tablet.

Learning find can seem daunting at first, but it is worth learning. There is no single more useful search tool for UNIX like systems. You could almost consider find a very primitive scripting language in itself as find can find the files you request and then perform tasks upon them. Let's get some basics together.

Every time there is an article about Wayland you can see that there a lots of uneducated comments about the “fact” that Wayland does not support network trancparency and because of that it is completely wrong to go for network trancparency. These discussions contain a lot of myths and even FUD and I consider it important to share my thoughts about these concerns as I am belonging to those who actively work to bring the benefits of Wayland to the KDE Plasma Workspaces.

When users complain about GNOME 3, inevitably they compare its release to KDE 4.0's. One KDE developer has told me that he dislikes the comparison, but, in the absence of other parallels, it continues to be made.

However, one part of the analogy that hasn't been explored is KDE's recovery from its user revolt, and whether GNOME is in any position to emulate that as well.

The Minority Report has been in rotation on cable lately, and you've probably seen the futuristic vision of Tom Cruise standing in front of a large screen, manipulating information with waves of his hands. That vision is a bit closer to reality, thanks in part to the economies of scale of the game industry. I don't often have reason to sing the praises of Microsoft, particularly not in a magazine devoted to Linux and all things open. But one thing our friends in Redmond do very well is to commoditize hardware. They've done just that with the Kinect by creating it as a natural interface for the Xbox 360 game console. What's more, they've allowed open-source developers to create drivers for the device, and they've even allowed the third party who developed the technology, PrimeSense, Inc., to release its own device drivers for Linux, Windows and OS X.

The Free Software Foundation reckons its new version of the General Public Licence removes the problems bedevilling version two, but not everyone is convinced the problem even exists. The FSF reckons that Linux developers need to move quickly to GPLv3 if they're to avoid Android (and similar Linux-based platforms) getting tied up in legal battles, despite the fact that many are claiming such battles are no more than figments in the eyes of publicity-hungry bloggers.