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A group of European students are working on creating a free and open source network to allows anyone to get connected to the Internet without any interference from the ISPs. It's one of the major open source project.

The Fedora developers have decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha for a week. A large number of blocker bugs are still unresolved and the code base has not been tested enough

I have just open sourced the source code to Baruwa 2.0 on Github. Baruwa 2.0 is a ground up rewrite of Baruwa which adds lots of new features.

This howto describes setting up an IPSEC VPN for use with the Iphone, Ipad and Mac OSX VPN clients on Centos/RHEL 6. I am using the 5.x branch of Strongswan which is now the mainline actively maintained branch.

Linus Torvalds announced last evening, August 22nd, that the third Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.6 kernel is now available for download and testing.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: August 23, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), will offer all of its popular LPIC certification exams at SUSECon, September 18-21, 2012, at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida (http://www.suse.com/events/susecon/). SUSECon is the first annual global conference for SUSE customers, partners and community enthusiasts. LPI will also participate in the openSUSE Summit (http://summit.opensuse.org/) directly following SUSECon.

A number of outstanding bugs still present in Fedora 18 apps have delayed the release by a week. This was decided in a go/no go meeting organized by Fedora QA team this week.

It's easy to dismiss private clouds as yet another marketing scheme that's sure to transform IT and spread magic fairy dust across the organization, but in one case at least, it worked according to plan.

Sony has moved its open source DASH framework to Github for better collaboration; the hardware abstraction layer for sensors should help Android ROM makers to quickly enable more sensor hardware, especially on Sony phones

Webmin provides a web based interface to manage an Ubuntu server. One of the management options is to configure daemons to start at boot time. This task can be performed using Webmin.

You wouldn't think supporters of open source would be collectively discussing Disney's latest episode of "Shake It Up," but there's a first time for everything.

Manjaro Linux is a Linux Distribution based on well tested snapshots of the Arch Linux repositories and will be 100% compatible with Arch. We manage our repository with our own developed tool called BoxIt which is designed like git.

OpenOffice has got a point update to the now Apache managed office suite, including bug fixes, performance enhancements, and extra language support

Whenever the The Electornic Frontier Foundation (EFF) commends Ubuntu for "retrofitting operating systems to support privacy against local attackers" as a worthy objective, I'm inclined to sit up and take notice. Since Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04) these privacy setting have been integrated out of the box as a feature in the System Settings menu. It's called Activity Log Manager (previously Zeitgeist Global Privacy), a GUI frontend to partially control Zeitgeist. It's what powers Ubuntu's Dash in the Unity desktop. Here's how to use it to control what the Gnome activity log is recording.

Drupal is one of the most popular and versatile platforms for Web design. It's free, open source and will run on Linux. Early last year, a new version was released (Drupal 7), making it even better with improvements in usability, performance and security. If you've looked at Drupal before, but didn't end up using it, you may want to take another look.

There are many reasons to support KDE with a regular financial contribution. It is important to KDE e.V. by helping to create a predictable income. This money is used to support events that accelerate development of KDE software, enhance promotion efforts and help grow the Community. KDE contributors and users are scattered throughout the world and have many different backgrounds, so their reasons for contributing are diverse. Claudia Rauch and Jayson Rowe from the Join the Game Team asked supporting member Gaurav Chaturvedi why he joined the game.

A small tip on how to avoid getting redirected to country specific google versions

Openmamba project started in 2007 with roots in QiLinux, a now defunct operating system. The system slogan of openmamba is "Ready to use GNU/Linux". What does it mean? That was a hook for me.

The Linux 3.5 kernel for Texas Instruments OMAP4 devices has finally been uploaded into the Quantal repository for Ubuntu 12.10. With the upgraded kernel release, here are some new benchmarks of the popular PandaBoard ES compared to earlier Ubuntu 12.10 development snapshots, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 from the dual-core Cortex-A9 ARMv7 development hardware.

Genius Mathematics is a very useful tool that intends to help with many things from simple calculations to complex research and education. The application uses a its own language extension called GEL, and many of the standard genius functions are written in GEL itself.