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This article is about why LibreOffice is one of the finest things in open source, and a great software to use for those looking to fulfill basic needs with an office suite.

The model that works for open-source projects might not work in the enterprise — or is that a false dichotomy?

I've been covering various scientific programs the past few months, but sometimes it's hard to find a package that does what you need. In those cases, you need to go ahead and write your own code. When you are involved with heavy-duty scientific computing, you usually need to go to parallel computing in order to get the runtimes down to something reasonable. more>>

Something that has always annoyed me about a good deal of netbooks is the fact that someone decided that 1024x600 was an acceptable maximum resolution. While this isn't always an issue, it becomes extra annoying when you attach an external display to your tiny computer. By default your are typically forced into one of two choices...

Inexpensive Linux based Pacemaker clusters can provide a cost effective way keep a file server operational even if one system fails. Read this business case analysis.

OpenTeacher is an opensource vocabulary training application that helps you learn a foreign language! Enter a list of words in both a known and a foreign language, and OpenTeacher will test you, you can save your list and repeat the test over time. OpenTeacher is an open source cross-platform application which works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

The gnome released the gnome desktop 3.1.91 including the gnome shell 3.1.91. This will eventually become the 3.2 version of the awesome desktop. There are many changes happening in this new version. Within these are the new online accounts, new user menu, onscreen keyboard, gnome contacts, new font manager and numerous other changes. The new gnome shell version 3.1.91 have many of these changes already implemented.

The world’s most famous hacker discusses his new book, his exploits, his imprisonment and his success. Meet the Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick.

To counter the piracy problem, Tiny Build Games who released Linux game 'No Time To Explain' few days back, uploaded their own version of game on Pirate Bay. But there is a difference is this version and the original game that you can buy from the game website.

It's not new to suggest that Google is too big, too influential, or trying to glom onto too many important bits of the Web. But some recent discussions on Reddit and news of Google Dart has raised the question again. Is Google being anti-competitive or threatening the open Web? More precisely, can Google do what makes sense as a business and not be (or be perceived as) anti-competitive?

That's right, gedit, the default text editor in GNOME, is actually a pretty bad ass IDE for Django web development. To those who have not really explored gedit it looks much like "Notepad" at first glance. Do not be fooled. gedit is incredibly fast, efficient, and stable. That makes it a great editor. Pair a great text editor with the right plugins and you got yourself a clean, lightweight, simple IDE.

This article explains how you can set up SSL vhosts under nginx on Ubuntu 11.04 and Debian Squeeze so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end. In addition to that I will show how to make use of SNI (Server Name Indication) to allow multiple SSL vhosts per IP address.

In part 1, we learned important PostgreSQL fundamentals. Today, we'll learn how to populate a table with data, and about important concepts like schema, normalization, views, and transactions.

AT T will begin selling the 4G version of its 10.1-inch Iconia Tab Android 3.0 (& Honeycomb& ) tablet Sept. 18 for $480 outright, or $330 on contract. The Acer Iconia Tab A501 4G closely follows the typical Honeycomb script, from the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor to the five- and two-megapixel cameras, but it's significantly cheaper than most of its rivals.

The upcoming Lubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system, due for release on October 13th, will introduce a new software center application.

Android is growing and so is the interest for Android platform among application developers. We have featured this awesome collection of top games for Android recently, now here are some really good wallpaper apps for Android which I think are among the best. Read on.

linux.conf.au, the largest annual FOSS conference held in the Southern Hemisphere, is now accepting registrations

Open source foundations aren't a panacea - even the ones you respect hugely.

In this video interview, Rackspace CTO John Engates talks cloud computing in the enterprise including cloud v. virtualization, security in the cloud and OpenStack for private clouds.

Surprise: This is not a blog item on Bodhi Linux, though a test drive of Bodhi will come soon. After thinking about the lack of Slackware-based distros he has used (and after finding the Wolvix sadly is no more), Larry the Free Software Guy is pleasantly surprised when he puts Salix through its paces.