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Patrick Verner announced a few minutes ago (July 12th) the immediate availability of the new and major version of his popular Parted Magic operating system.

Online music streaming provider Spotify has announced a native application for Linux operating systems.

Last month saw the opening and subsequent closing of the 2.6.35 kernel’s merge window, the period of time during which all of the exciting new features that have been waiting in the wings are considered for merging into the official ‘mainline’ kernel source tree...

If you've been grappling with Linux hardware problems, take heart: Jack Wallen has some strategies for resolving common issues--or avoiding them in the first place.

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

As you know, You can adjust openoffice to your needs by adding more functionality with the help of extensions. Find in this post a list of useful extensions for openoffice.org with installation guide.

Bibliographic software (also known as citation software or reference managers) plays a very important role in research. This type of software helps research to be published more quickly. Researchers amass a huge collection of bibliographic references which are pertinent to their field of research, and they need to cite relevant references in their published journal articles.

I’m sick and tired of having to remember and ‘cd’ long paths. I decided to create my own console based Favorites-script which makes use of a definitions file which is easy to change. “cd /home/petur/Documents/school/2010/fall/chemistry” becomes “cdf chemistry” and “cd /var/log” becomes “cdf log”

ULTILEX stands for Ultimate Linux Experience. This is a live Linux CD compilation which in turn contains several live Linux distributions. You can boot ULTILEX from CD/DVD and USB flash devices.

Microsoft's mobile strategy goes from bad to non-existent. Everyone knows mobile is the next-big-thing. Everyone except Microsoft, that is. The company which has dominated technology for decades has systematically moved over the course of the year from having a deeply flawed mobile strategy to having no strategy at all. Meantime Apple, which has a very aggressive mobile strategy, is snapping up customers left, right and centre. An example of Microsoft's so-called strategy is the Kin debacle. Earlier this week Microsoft confirmed that it was killing development of its Kin phones. That's just six weeks after it first launched the phone.

DuckDuckGo is a new search engine focused on relevant results and respecting user privacy. Actually a mash-up of several other sites like Wikipedia, About, Bing, and Yahoo, DuckDuckGo also uses it's own web crawler, the DuckDuckBot. DuckDuckGo uses what it calls Zero-click search results to try to guess what you are looking for and give it to you directly in your search results. I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few weeks now, and I'm impressed. What further impresses me is that the entire site is built on open source tools, ranging from FreeBSD for the operating system to good old-fashioned Perl for the logic.

Last week, we had the pleasure of talking to Evan Dandrea, Software Engineer on the Foundations Team at Canonical, about the upcoming installer of the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system.

According to the publication “Kommersant”, the state enterprise “Russian Technologies” has almost completed the acquisition of shares LLC Alt Linux.

[CNews has an interesting article on the Russian investment in Mandriva which became known last week. Google translation here - hkwint].

There's a delightful story that does the rounds regarding one of the founding fathers of Linux. It's said that during the early days of the opensource operating system's development, this fellow took to attending conferences in complete silence. All attempts to communicate via means other than hand gestures were refused. Instead, he pointed at things. Apocryphal or not, the tale remains highly relevant today. Our hero's beef was with the windows-based graphical interface metaphor and its knack for turning us into mouse-pointing morons.

When you are using Squirrelmail for IMAP and using a client like Outlook Express, you will find that the folders do not play well together. You can modify both the client and the Squirrelmail settings to get them to work together.

MediaWiki is the popular wiki engine behind sites like Wikipedia. Its power and flexibility makes it an excellent choice for a community-driven knowledge base. The ease of developing various extensions for MediaWiki is one of the sources of this flexibility. This article will show you how to create different types of extensions for MediaWiki: wiki variables, special pages, and new tags. You'll also get a quick overview of what you'll need to do to create skins for MediaWiki.

Everyone seems to have an opinion on the open core debate, and a popular opinion seems to inflict some sort of excommunication to anyone having a less than pure open source monetization process. Therefore I thought that I would add some unsolicited input to this matter. Now, what is a pure open source monetization process? The answers to that question echo the armchair soccer coaches who have been entertaining the world with their wrong predictions, while teams with less theory and more practice have advanced to better results.

A lot of people have been asking us to write an article on what fonts to use in Ubuntu, so here it is. These are my favourite fonts and among the few I can use but of course that may not be the case for everybody, so you can share your favourite font(s) in the comments!

Do you remember a time when Linux was a niche OS? Beyond college kids and a few converted Unix nerds, Linux was something for hackers, Ham radio operators and ivory tower dwellers. No one would ever put a Linux-based computer into a data center. How times and attitudes have changed. Once known as the "little OS that could," today Linux could take over your data center. No bands will play. No tickertape will fall. And, no pomp or circumstance will surround the event. Linux will seep quietly into your data center through the "cracks" other OSes leave agape.

Although Adobe's Flash technology is still incredibly popular among website designers it is facing a bleak future as developers move to newer HTML5-based media formats. On top of that Apple's Steve Jobs has declared Flash a complete no-go on any future iPhone and iPad products.