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This article lists the top ten features that will appeal primarily to enterprise users. Keep in mind that most of them have not been fully implemented in Fedora 17 alpha, the first public release of what would become Fedora 17.

The features in alphabetical order, are:

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Addition of a video wall script in KDE-Workspace Support of third party window switchers by a KCM service that finds all available window switcher layouts Work on extended quick search to include fulltext results from Nepomuk in KDE-PIM Improved Nepomuk feeder throttling Improvements in Kexi Feedback Agent read more

Ubuntu is headed to Android, and Mozilla is partnering to build its own mobile OS.

Privacy International, one of the world's leading privacy organizations, last year released the results of a multi-year investigation into the shadowy world of the commercial surveillance industry. Dubbed "Big Brother Inc.," the investigation placed the spotlight on dozens of companies that specialize in covert surveillance technologies that are typically sold directly to governments and law enforcement agencies.

When I show friends and colleagues the things I’m able to do on my rooted Android device, many of them end up asking me to work similar magic on their hardware. I’ve always been happy to help out, and after a bit of research at home (how to get root, custom ROMs that are available, etc) I usually come to work a day or two later equipped with my laptop and the appropriate software. Unfortunately, I’ve recently come to realize that this doesn’t always work out to the advantage of the other person, or to me for that matter.

Earlier this month I published an article with benchmarks of the Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce. Now, however, there's a much larger comparison, including results from OpenBox, Lubuntu, GNOME classic, and other desktop alternatives...

In "Tweaking Text in Scribus," I briefly described the tools available for manipulating text in Scribus. Now, it's time to really get your typographic geek on, and look in greater detail at how to adjust the spacing of text in Scribus: how to adjust the space between lines of text (leading), between characters (kerning), and upon a line (tracking).

XBMC 11 Eden RC1 has been released, this beta release comes 3 weeks after Beta3 release. According to the announcement, this release comes with a number of updated XBMC translations for final release, resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues,

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has issued a rare public spanking for openSUSE after falling foul of its security procedures.

The first public step towards the release of Fedora 17, code-named Beefy Miracle, was taken yesterday with the release of Fedora 17 alpha.

Fedora fans are encouraged to download, install and report bugs to the Fedora QA team. From the test installation of this alpha release that I have made, bug hunters will be very busy. I know I will be.

Mozilla keeps up relentless development pace.

Purpose-built Linux distros are appearing faster than zombies in a first-person shooter. This article looks at a few good ones.

SSH is a very useful and capable protocol that can be a Linux administrator's best friend. This article explains how SSH can make your IT work easier and your network more secure. It also provides all the usage options available for SSH and describes each option fully. Lastly, the article provides links to many of the other best webpages on SSH.

We spend time with Eben Upton, the man at heart of the $25 computer project known as Raspberry Pi. We learn all about the hardware, the dev board pricing scandal and – amazingly – why Ubuntu doesn’t want anything to do with it. Though otherwise candid, Eban refused to be drawn on the existence of a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled Raspberry Pi ‘Model C’…

In this article we will show another possible application for the pylogsparser library. We will also discover a simple way to draw and use world maps with python. You should read the previous article in this series if you haven’t done so, since we will use what we have done there as a starting point.

Raspberry Pi, the tiny $25 computer project launched this morning to unprecedented demand and success…

The Raspberry Pi is here at last —now what can you do with it? Here is our pick of the project ideas that you can try with your Pi. Note that not all of these are going to work straight of the bat. The Raspberry Pi is brand new and will require some fiddling to get working properly. Give it a week or so however, and we reckon there will be several pre-packaged installers available for you to use if you lack the skills or time to try these yourself.

This tutorial shows how to create a portable MySQL installation on GNU/Linux. At the end of this guide you will obtain a portable MySQL installation on a target directory with its own databases, binaries, logs, pid files, etc. Consider always the use of a permission preserving packaging (like TAR) for moving the installation between systems or removable storages.

Hewlett-Packard continues to dismantle its webOS engineering team by handing nearly half of the remaining 600 techies their pink slips. The cuts began in September when HP's axe fell on 525 webOS employees following the decision to shutter the hardware unit that designed the now defunct TouchPad and Pre3 devices.

Announced eariler today, February 28th, the Fedora 17 Alpha (Beefy Miracle) operating system has been officially released for testing.