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Microsoft has a strategy aimed at converting Linux/Unix users to windows, this is obvious because they are creating the tools and extensions to windows that resemble Linux. powershell I had a good laugh when I met windows powershell for the first time, it's really great. You're used to Linux command line and you always type the wrong commands in windows, and suddenly your commands start working. It was really surprising the first time this happened.

Nokia has announced that starting with version 4.5, Qt will be available under the LGPL 2.1. From the announcement, "The move to LGPL licensing will provide open source and commercial developers with more permissive licensing than GPL and so increase flexibility for developers. In addition, Qt source code repositories will be made publicly available and will encourage contributions from desktop and embedded developer communities. With these changes, developers will be able to actively drive the evolution of the Qt framework."

If you haven’t tried OpenOffice.org’s mail merge feature because you find it confusing or difficult to use, you are in luck. This in-depth guide to mail merge with OpenOffice.org explains all the intricacies of using this powerful feature. Learn how to use the mail merge feature to create letters, labels, and envelopes. The guide is also available as a free PDF Ebook document for your perusal

For some time, Ubuntu Brainstorm has been a place for users to share and vote on ideas for Ubuntu. Today, that process just got a little better with the introduction of a new version of Brainstorm.

Part 1 of this three-part series laid the foundation for building an application targeted at the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, including choosing a target language (Python), selecting and configuring a development environment (Eclipse with Pluthon), and building a small sample application.

If you've been hacking, coding, or just generally IT-ing for more than ten minutes, you've likely run into a stereotype or two about geeks — and there's always a grain of truth, however tiny, behind a stereotype. At least that seems to be the prevailing wisdom at Germany's Potsdam University, where the IT faculty are gearing up to turn their masters students into master suitors.

All right, knock it off, VCS. ...wait, not that way!!!

Like I say somewhere in this barfed-out mass of words, I saw my problems with Opera in OpenBSD on my Toshiba laptop as an opportunity to get back to Debian, a distro I truly love. I'm reluctant to say this, but in a small way having the same problems in Debian Lenny that plagued my Gateway on a totally different hunk of hardware kind of breaks my FOSS-loving heart. But I know Ubuntu pretty well. And it installed without incident. Call it the path of least resistance, or another case of "Ubuntu saves the day." Ubuntu's color scheme may be poop-brown, but I'll take an easily configured, working system over the alternative any day.

I discovered recently the truth of the old saying that necessity is the mother of invention. Yes, I finally did it. I bricked my beloved EeePc. I had just installed the Smart package manager and a subsequent reboot saw me stuck in, well, an eternal boot loop. Impulsive mixing of repositories always ends in tears—but not being able to boot? Argh! To rub salt into the wound I had mislaid the Xandros DVD to do a reinstall and I didn’t even have an external CD/DVD drive anyway. Organised or what? Read the full story at Freesoftware Magazine.

While some mainline Linux vendors have left the Linux desktop for dead, this article explains how I believe a new set of market conditions opens the door for profitability.

eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.It provides advanced key management and policy features. eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key, and there is no need to keep track of any additional information aside from what is already in the encrypted file itself. Think of eCryptfs as a sort of “gnupgfs”.eCryptfs is a native Linux filesystem. The kernel module component of eCryptfs is part of the Linux kernel since 2.6.19.

Open Source in the public sector seemed to be all the rage in 2008, with government agencies all over Europe — not to mention agencies of the EU itself — adopting, and in many cases, mandating Open Source software and standards. Of course, Europe was not the only continent cozying up with a copy of the source code — governments in Africa, Asia, North & South America, and all over the South Pacific were exploring and implementing Open Source in 2008. Now, one of those governments has revealed the savings-side of OSS, and the numbers they're tossing around are pretty nice.

Dangerous is probably not a description you would apply to the average programmer, let alone yourself. However, the Microsoft, Symantec and even the US Department of Homeland Security are worried that you could unwittingly be just that and intend to prove it.

An RSS reader (sometimes called a newsreader or news aggregator), allows you to receive and view data feeds from various sources in a single interface. There are many RSS readers available, web-based and desktop clients. What are some of the best RSS readers for Linux?

Imeem's android application offers an easy and clear-sounding way to listen to music on your G1. While it doesn't quite duplicate all the functions of the Web version of Imeem, it does serve up plenty of music without costing a penny.

Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. It enables users to make a duplicate of everything contained on the original source. This type of software is also used to perform a recovery of the data or system in the event of a disaster.

The Tor Project announces that it has removed all bugs that Coverity Scan had found in its software.

A little bit in late to release this article, but important to let know KDE community about our involvement to spread KDE to Italian people. Last October, three members of KDE Italia gave talks in three different Italian cities. Daniele Costarella in Salerno, Salvatore Brigaglia in Sassari and Diego Rondini in Castelfranco Veneto (TV).

This article examines some of the advanced features of the Java editor in Eclipse. This "Mastering Eclipse" series of articles teaches complete newcomers to Eclipse the ins and outs of the Eclipse IDE. By the end of the series, you'll be on par with advanced users. In this article, take a tour of Eclipse's Java™ editor and learn about some of its advanced features. This part of the "Mastering Eclipse" series takes a detailed look at Eclipse's Java editor. The editor is where developers spend a majority of their time, so understanding its advanced features can significantly improve your productivity.

Say you want to share a folder for a friend. What better way than pointing him to an URL? Put this in your .bash_profile and login to your account.