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A growing number of platforms implement IPv6, allowing Apache to allocate IPv6 sockets and handle requests which were sent over IPv6. This article explains how to setup dual stacked, IPv4 and IPv6 enabled Apache networking under any Linux or UNIX like operating systems. You need to update httpd.conf file with the Listen directive. It instructs Apache to listen to only specific IPv4 and IPv6 addresses or ports.

Currently Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic slowdown. Reduced demand for its Windows OS & other software products has had a negative impact on the software giant. Both sales & profit are down. Meanwhile, Linux isn't feeling any impact at all.

You can change the owner and group of a file or a directory with the chown command. Please, keep in mind you can do this only if you are the root user or the owner of the file.

Set the file's owner:
$ chown username somefile
After giving this command, the new owner of a file called somefile will be the user username. The file's group owner will not change. Instead of a user name, you can also give the user's numeric ID here if you want.

High on my list of obvious solutions to common problems is smart-card password management. Industry, when it ponders the issue at all, keeps offering centralized authentication schemes that they control. Nice user-controlled smart cards to use as password safes are apparently too user-friendly for the titans of tech. I was originally thinking of two types of smart cards: the traditional credit-card magnetic-stripe type that requires a scanner, and a little USB device.

For anyone that extensively uses Skype on Linux, you will probably want to head on over to the Linux Skype Developer page to fetch the latest beta. Skype has just rolled out the first 2.1 beta (2.1.0.47 Beta) of the Linux Skype client, which adds several new features and also brings a number of fixes and other improvements.

When I am at school, and I read that Slackware 13 is out, I need to have it. And I want it at home. So, what I can do is SSH into my machine, wget it, and it is done when I'm at home. But, at school SSH is blocked, and a lot of other things, like FTP, Youtube and they have a large Internet Filter. So, I need to have an other solution. Now I have it. You need to have an web server that is able to do PHP. I myself use lighttpd with PHP via fastCGI.

An open source project that wants greater visibility may well benefit from a mention in the technical or business media. But because open source communities are primarily technical communities, they don't necessarily know how to talk to the press. Here's a few useful things to know.

Opensourc3 is a magazine dedicated to Unified and Cloud Computing using open source technologies. It is published on a monthly basis

10Zig Technology has announced two physically identical thin clients compatible with Linux: a RBT-602 model, offering terminal emulation, and a RBT-672v system targeted solely at virtual desktop environments. Both thin clients offer a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, gigabit Ethernet, and four USB ports, the company says.

There are many reasons why you would want to run your own private microblog, but how do you actually do that? The easiest way is to install Bilboblog, a tiny, no-frills PHP/MySQL-based microblogging engine.

After Sony's PS3 slim announcement last week, many fans were dismayed the new model would no longer include backwards compatibility and the option to run Linux as an alternative operating system. Sony stated the console's ability to run PS2 games wasn't a major "purchase intent driver" and therefore not worth the cost of including, yet remained relatively silent on the missing "OtherOS" option.

Not many people know that it was an obscure battle between Richard Stallman and a company called Symbolics that led directly to the creation of the GNU project - and hence free software. As well as losing to RMS, Symbolics has another claim to fame: it was the first doman name registered. And now, after all these years, that name is finally being sold.

If you can't access some of the files on your very own Linux system, it's usually because of misconfigured file access permissions. If you are the only user on your Linux box, you may be wondering what's the point of having all these permissions (or lack thereof) that restrict your access to your own files. However, before pulling your hair off, you must keep in mind Linux is designed to be a multi-user environment. In an environment with more than one user, it is crucial to have a secure system for deciding which files are yours and who can fiddle with them.

At first glance, Dell’s Ubuntu Linux strategy has hit a couple of bumps in recent weeks. But The VAR Guy has done some digging and learned that Dell and Canonical are working on a few surprises that could bolster Ubuntu’s presence in PC markets around the globe. Here’s the scoop.

C represents more than 40% of all code written for open source software. But this figure comes from counting lines of code. What about Java and PHP, or C++?

Modern society harbors many bad habits. One is its penchant for enthusiastically embracing the benefits of new technologies before considering their less desirable side effects.

Wine stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”, simply because it’s not an emulator. It is in fact a compatibility layer. What does all this mean? Doesn’t really matter, but if you care to find out Google can help. But what does matter is how to install Adobe CS4 in Wine.

Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser founded by Rob Lord and developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable , with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web." Songbird employs Mozilla's XULRunner platform, and is thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. Songbird utilizes the GStreamer media framework.

This guide explains how you can configure your SquirrelMail webmail application on an ISPConfig 3 server so that email users can change their passwords themselves directly in SquirrelMail.

Even though Nokia's Symbian mobile OS is the most dominant smartphone operating system in the world, the Finnish phonemaker has opted to fit its new touchscreen smartphone, the N900, with Maemo. Maemo is a Linux-based operating system normally used in Nokia's tablet computers.