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Keeping Red Hat out of Windows shops The SUSE division of Attachmate has managed to talk Microsoft into shelling out another chunk of change – $100m – to help prop up SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the Linux distro formerly controlled by Novell, and to help drive Red Hat's rival distro from Windows shops.…

Habey announced a 12-inch panel PC with a 1.8GHz, dual-core Intel Atom D525 processor and Nvidia Ion GT218 graphics card. Ready for home theater applications, the PPC-6512 offers HDMI/VGA dual display capability, plus mini-PCIe, SATA, USB, serial, and Ethernet connections, according to the company....

The latest feature to be pulled into the Linux 3.1 kernel is support for OpenRISC, an open-source CPU architecture...

After an earlier quick look, it seemed Linvo GNU/Linux was worthy of a spotlight. Linvo is a Slackware-based distribution featuring GNOME 2.32 and is shipped as a live image. The desktop is pretty and features a handy set of applications. In addition, additional applications are available through a popular one-click format.

Sharing data is a very frequent activity in the computer world. There are many great ways and utilities to share data with other people on network. Python provides a very quick and simple way to share data with people on the network. To share the data within a directory, go to that directory (through cd command) and execute command python -­m SimpleHTTPServer <portnumber> .Please note that the above command is very case sensitive .

There are three ways to start applications when the Ubuntu server starts; upstart jobs, backward compatible system-V scripts and using rc.local. This article will provide examples of how to make it work.

It's been four years since Microsoft and Novell inked their controversial interoperability agreement and it still had a year left to run. Even though SUSE is under new management with Attachmate Group, Microsoft liked the agreement so much that it decided to re-up the deal for another four years and $100 million. Attachmate looked the $100 million in the face, and said yes.

Few programmers enjoy writing software documentation, though the quality of their lamentations on the subject indicates that many are talented writers. Good source code documentation takes time and effort, and it’s essential, so what’s an overworked coder to do? Look for tools to make it easier, like the Doxygen documentation system. Doxygen generates documentation directly from source code. It supports multiple output formats, such as HTML, PDF, RTF, man pages, and LaTeX. It works out-of-the-box with C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL, Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and D, and community members have written helpers for other languages such as Perl, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Object Pascal, VB.Net, and TCL.

This week's KDE Commit-Digest brings two featured articles: Milian Wolff writes about his work on C++2011 support in KDevelop and Dominik Haumann presents improvements in Kate Variable Editor. The changes review brings: Work on C++2011 support in KDevelop continues. KStars gains a program to write NOMAD data to MySQL, GSoC work on FOV export, speed optimizations and a fix in file seek. From the security-related changes, there is improved protection against spoofing attacks in URLs in KWebkitpart. Resource storage support is improved in KDE-Runtime. Karbon now supports moving objects between layers. User interface improvements can be seen in PublicTransport, including new alarm configuration and colors in filter menus. KMail and KGraphViewer, independently, see performance improvements in font handling. SSL support in Rekonq gets cleanup and improvements. Among the other changes, we can see bugfixes in KDE-PIM, KMyMoney, Calligra, K3B and PublicTransport. Read the rest of the Digest here. read more

The Desktop Summit is only 2 weeks away. Excitement builds! The program consists of 3 days of talks, followed by 4 days of workshops and BoFs. In these sessions, Free Desktop contributors and enthusiasts gather face-to-face to discuss and work on current topics. read more

Mikogo is a freeware, cross-platform desktop sharing tool. Starting with the latest version 4 - released a few days ago -, Mikogo is also available for Linux [...]

TODAY is Ubuntu Cloud Days #UCD. UCD is an IRC event where the Ubuntu Cloud Community gets together around tuition sessions and information sharing. During Cloud Days, you’ll learn lots of exciting stuff, you’ll interact with tons of smart people, and you’ll just have fun!

The Wine development release 1.3.25 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

From Android to iOS, Google and Apple have changed the rules of the game in mobile IT. But what if the rules of the game changed again? Specifically, what if Google made Chrome OS available for MacBook notebooks? Here’s the update.

Mozilla has announced a new experimental project called Boot to Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing an operating system that emphasizes standards-based Web technologies. The initial focus will be on delivering a software environment for handheld devices such as smartphones.

Patent law in the United States has always been framed with the intent to promote innovation. Because there has generally been a large amount of capital required to produce such innovations as the railroad, the airplane...

If you think that the operations about users are only: creation, deletion and change of the passwords you are in error, in the standard GNU/Linux system about authentication and authorization of users there are some interesting flags regarding the age of an account. These parameters are usually ignored, but can be very useful in particular situations, or to help enforce internal policies on the use of personal accounts. All these parameters are stored in /etc/shadow can be viewed and modified with the command chage

Karanbir Singh proudly announced a few minutes ago, July 25th, the immediate availability for download of the Live CD and Live DVD ISO images for the recently released CentOS 6.0 operating system.

We are pleased to announce the Desktop Summit social events, bringing even more excitement and fun to the Conference program. The social events vary from sports to parties, and will take place throughout the week in different locations in Berlin. They will provide opportunities for attendees to get together informally while enjoying foods and drinks provided by our sponsors—Intel, Collabora, SUSE, Igalia and corporate partner, c-base. read more

I store all my photos on a Linux server and mount the remote directory containing all the photos on my local machine using sshfs (see Manage Photos from Multiple digiKam Installations).