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Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, and Linux User’s 100th issue special guest editor chats about the 20th anniversary of Linux, the future of embedded Linux devices, and the current state of the kernel among other things…

Virtualization and cloud-computing will save the desktop operating system but we really just need a way to launch applications.

We've got a very beautiful planet to live in, with lots of beautiful landscapes to look at; but maybe the most beautiful ones are those that we can see in the pictures taken from the space. Those are really awesome. In this article by John E. Herreño, author of Blender 2.5 HOTSHOT, let's challenge ourselves and work to create an image resembling some of that beauty that we can see in nature.

Awesomium windowless web framework and engine has been ported to Linux. Awesomium can be used for web page capture, site scrapping, in-app advertising, in-app browsing, web automation, rendering custom in-game web browser and creating HTML UIs for 3D games.Awesomium is a software library that makes it easy to put the web in applications. Whether that means embedded web browsing, rendering pages as images, streaming pages over the net, or manipulating web content live for some other purpose. Awesomium supports latest web standards: HTML5 semantics, JavaScript, and CSS3, as well as Flash and Silverlight plugins and is a branch of Google Chromium. The project is already being used to render UI for upcoming Linux game Overgrowth.

In preparation for taking the Linux Professional Institute Certification exam LPI-302 for systems administrators, learn how to configure Samba and structure your configuration file. Also, learn how Samba interacts with the network, how to configure logging, and how to debug problems with Samba.

Zentyal is a Linux Small Business Server, it lets you manage all your network services through one single platform. It's a Network Gateway, as well as an Infrastructure, UTM (Unified Threat Manager), Office and Communications Server. All these features are fully integrated and easy to configure, it truly helps to save system administrators time. In this tutorial you will see how to set up a Zentyal Server to act as a gateway in a very common scenario. Zentyal will provide basic network infrastructure, load balancing between two Internet providers, firewall and HTTP proxy caching and content filtering.

Cray's latest supercomputer will run Cray's modified version of SUSE Linux on AMD's upcoming 16-core & Interlagos& Opteron chip and Nvidia's Tesla 20-Series GPU (graphics processing unit). The XK6 system should deliver up to 50 petaflops of performance when it ships later this year, claims Cray.

Barry Kauler, the father of Puppy Linux, has just announced today, May 25th, the immediate availability for download of the Puppy Linux 5.1.2 Wary operating system, an edition of Puppy Linux intended for antique machines.

A pre-release for Pitivi Video Editor is now available for users to test. This pre-release includes many bug fixes and new features developed over a span of last 7 months. Probably the most exciting feature is addition of new audio and video effects. If there are no critical issues or regressions found in this build, Pitivi 0.14 will be released on May 31st.

Google Chrome web store, an online web store for Google Chrome that houses extensions, themes and web-apps. Some web-apps are particularly worth mentioning. The apps reviewed in this post are free and are not aimed at any particular group (such as developers, project managers, cloud service users or for users from specific etc.) They have a wide-range utility!

Here's a conversation Skip Guenter had with a friendly neighbor last week.

"So anyone can come in and use those computers?"

"Sure, but students have priority."

"What if I don't want my daughter exposed to perverts? How can you make sure that doesn't happen?"

"We can seat her at a computer without an Internet connection."

"Well, how is that supposed to keep perverts away?"

Apparently, the perverts live in the computer. It also apparent that we have our work cut out for us.

One thing that keeps Linux in the back foot is the lack of good quality applications that can compete with the best out there. The advent of paid softwares section in Ubuntu Software Center is a start, things like that can kick start application development for Linux in a big way. But things were not as bad I thought it would be. On further browsing, I found out that there are indeed a good number of paid applications for Linux, some of them were a total surprise for me. Here are some of those paid applications for Linux which I found interesting.

Ever since I got my HP probook 4420s I have been on a search for the Touchpad (or Clickpad as it is called) Nirvana. On Kubuntu 10.10 Out of the box the clickpad was basically useless, right click and middle click did not work. Thankfully though, a work around helped get the most basic functionality working, but lacked multi-touch (even though the clickpad supports multi-touch) Another patch was released which gave clickpad multitouch support but removed right click option (You have to do a 2 finger tab to right click)

Powerful companies like Google and VMware are fighting for a chance to be the enterprise front end to the Cloud. There is a battle going on in the Cloud and it's happening whether it's a private cloud or a public one. That battle is for the soul of your cloud front end. It's nothing more than a web page, a portal if you will, that acts as a single point of control and access, but vendors like Google and VMware are fighting hard for your loyalty.

Scott Crenshaw: "Pundits around the industry are using the repeated – and successful -- attacks on Sony’s Playstation Network as proof clouds aren't secure. But what's 'cloudy' about PSN?"

To help us celebrate the 100th issue of Linux User & Developer, Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth, agreed to take the reins from our regular Ubuntu columnist (Dave Walker) and take us through why he believes it was the right decision for Ubuntu to embrace the future with Unity…

At work we use a lot of Firebird databases, and so far our system admins checked the availability of a Firebird Database by simply trying to connect via telnet to the port 3050 and see if they would get a response.

Syncany is a brand new open-source file sync software (similar to Dropbox, or Sparkleshare). "Oh no, not another Dropbox alternative" you might say. Well Syncany is different and has the chance to become better then other such applications. Read on!

This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 14 system to Fedora 15. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

Time to be honest here for a minute. The open source community really has outdone themselves coming up with some very obscure names for packages. Let's take this list of packages for instance: emacs, gimp, gcc, mutt, grub, kyle rankin, parted, tar, mutt, vim. Nine times out of ten, a common person is going to look at that list and become utterly confused over what package does what. That's just the beauty (and beast) of naming software in the open source community. But every so often a tool comes across my screen with such a blatantly obvious name that I just have to run a 'man' to make sure my eyes are not deceiving me. In this case, it's ethtool. Yes, a simple name, for such a powerful utility. The name itself tells you what it does, an Ethernet Tool. Tada! That's it, ethernet tool.