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After another six months of hard work, the famous KDE Software Compilation (SC) suite reached version 4.6 on January 26th, 2010. With lots of bug fixes, many new features, new applications, breath-taking effects, KDE SC 4.6.0 is composed of the KDE Plasma Workspace, the KDE Applications and the KDE Development Platform.

Sabayon Linux 5.5 is released, it is available for both GNOME and KDE editions . This new release features, best AMD/ATI and NVIDIA Sabayon4Linux Desktop support, faster boot time compared to Sabayon 5.4, improved Windows autostart support, try Sabayon directly from your Microsoft OS and more

sar is one of the old and famous commandline utilities, which is often overlooked. It provides a wealth of information when you have kind of performance bottlenecks. By itself it only provides lengthy columns of numerical data, kind of hard to interpret. sar exists on most Linux distributions, for example Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Gentoo, and is also available on Solaris, AIX, and other commercial Unices. ksar, on the other hand, is a Java based front end for sar's numerical data. It produces friendly graphs which could be exported to .pdf and some other formats.

If you’re a Linux (or even Mac) user, and you’ve never toyed with your shell prompt, you might not realize just how useful a good prompt can be. Sure, it can show your user and host names, and perhaps the current directory, but a really good prompt can do a whole lot more. Those who spend a LOT of time in the terminal might even want to take it a step further and move into a custom semi-graphical shell with all kinds of bells and whistles. If you’re one such shell enthusiast, then check out Bashish – a way to theme your command prompt. Yep, you read that right.

Yesterday I followed the online event Virtual Experience, presented by Red Hat. The event was presented in 4 main areas :Red Hat Enterprise 6, Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Jboss, for an idea of the sessions available take a look here. I followed some of the sessions and from what I saw I had the impression that Cloud is the key word (or fashion) that is often repeated even in talks about other topics, RH surely is betting a lot there, but we are still in the early phases and there are enabling technologies, but the solutions must be built ad hoc on your infrastructure.

Google has released an early preview of the Android 3.0 software development kit (SDK). Android 3.0—codenamed Honeycomb—introduces Android's new tablet user interface, which is expected to officially debut next month on Motorola's Xoom tablet. Developers will be able to use the SDK preview to get a head start on updating their applications to support the tablet form factor.

The Sabayon Linux developers have announced the availability of the GNOME and KDE variants of version 5.5 of their Linux distribution. Sabayon, named after an egg-yolk based dessert (also known as zabaglione) is derived from Gentoo Linux and is intended to provide a "complete out-of-the-box experience" while being both stable and versatile.

Puppy Linux began life as a really cool small-sized Linux distribution designed primarily for lower specification hardware while still providing most of the amenities that make Linux fun and usable. It included lots of original utilities and tools for completing tasks and configurations without a lot of resource overhead. Best of all, it was blazing fast. Well, the little puppy has grown up some and branched out, but is still that same light-weight wonder in spirit.

An attacker stole the account credentials of a contributor to the Fedora Linux project and accessed Fedora servers on Jan. 22. The attack follows other recent cyber-invasions of open source projects, including hacks reported on the Free Software Foundation and ProFTPD.

Google is clearly going to continue its headlong dash into the browser market in 2011, having just released version 10 of its Chrome browser. Just last month users were getting used to the stable release of Chrome 8 and already version 10 is popping up in the development channel.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 27, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at SCALE 9x (Los Angeles, California: February 27, 2011) and Indiana Linux Fest (Indianapolis, Indiana: March 27, 2011).

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (January 27, 2011) It’s Mac in the back; Windows in the front. Gadfly software company, CodeWeavers, Inc., today releases CrossOver Impersonator Edition. This latest edition greatly increases the ease of running Windows software on Macs and Linux PCs without the need for a Windows operating system license.

For the last six plus months, Mozilla developers have been focused on building Firefox 4. That's not the only effort that Mozilla is now sprinting to complete, developer documentation at the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) are also being completed. Instead of a 'code sprint', MDN is having a doc sprint - starting Jan 28th and running for 34 hours until Jan 29th.

Ever wish you could set up a small, efficient server? Maybe you're setting up a mail server for a couple of people, or something to hand out music files over a home network. Do you really need a full-fledged PC with a noisy fan, sucking down 100 watts and heating up the room?

Over the past few years the use of JavaScript has grown from a form validation helper to a field-leveler as the user experience of web applications has begun to rival traditional “smart client” applications in some arenas. Clever CSS skinning has not done this alone — another key ingredient is event handling. JQuery Mobile introduces mobile-oriented events to browser based programming. Let’s have a look.

Fabio Erculiani proudly announced a few minutes ago the immediate availability of the Sabayon Linux 5.5 operating system, designed for Linux enthusiasts who want the latest packages and the best performance, but don't want to spend days getting things working properly.

TurnKey Linux announces part one of the TurnKey Linux 11 release, spanning 45 ready-to-use solutions based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support - until April 2015).

This tutorial describes how you can set up a development environment for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device. PhoneGap allows you to develop your Android applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (e.g. with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery/jQTouch), and it will turn these web apps into native Android apps (in fact, PhoneGap supports multiple platforms such as Android, iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian, so you can use the same sources to create apps for multiple platforms).

digiKam comes with a nifty batch utility that allows you to convert RAW files to the DNG format. The question is, of course, why you would want to do that.

ABLEconf has extended its Call for Presentations deadline two weeks in order to capitalize on FUDcon: Tempe 2011 being a local conference.