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More and more individuals and organizations have been discovering and turning to free and open source software as an alternative to costly Microsoft and legacy software in use today, and so the new version of the book "Penguin in the Pew" - while aimed primarily at Christians - might also be useful to people of other faiths and the secular non-profit community.

The installation of Linux as an operating system has become just as easy as installing Windows. Where problems do turn up now and again, however, is when it comes time to install individual programs. The biggest problem is that there are no wizards to help users set up software written for Linux.

Modifying stuff to suit individual desire is the credo of hackers everywhere. These two excerpts from Linux Desktop Hacks let you modify Linux to suit your desires: The first hack uses Virtual Network Computer (VNC) to access Windows and Mac OS X from your Linux desktop. The second shows how to lock down KDE with Kiosk mode, allowing you to control exactly what users can and can't change.

Linux users who patched their systems for a serious security vulnerability in K Desktop Environment last month will have to patch once again, because of errors in the original patch, according to the KDE project.

Obstacles such as financial constraints, very minimum PC resources, did not in any way deter the grit of Kerala-based, 15-year old Sarath Lakshman from developing SLYNUX- a highly user-friendly GNU/Linux operating system designed for beginners. A completely self-taught person, who has never stepped into a computer-learning institute in his lifetime, his tale is one of guts and more guts.

The IT Productivity Center has released Janco's April Browser Market Share Study. The IT Productivity Center also has its Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Kit and IT Service Management Template featured on this standard setting portal.

An investment venture will try to replicate the model of Gluecode, an open source start-up acquired by IBM, with a fund dedicated solely to open source software.

The operating system world has been blessed by another regular release of OpenBSD. As usual, the developers have made many enhancements, upgraded ported applications to new versions, and added new software technologies and hardware drivers. OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights. With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by its previous releases.

PalmSource CEO David Nagel predicted on Thursday that Linux will figure large as broadband wireless services emerge in the next-generation of mobile telephony.

A tour through the V7 ls command.

Planning for the very first O'Reilly European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON) is underway. The call for participation is now open and speaker proposals are being accepted until May 23.

Concluding our tour of the V7 ls command.

Concluding our look at SUSE Linux, Rob Reilly loads up the latest and greatest and sees what new features--and new gotchas--reside in the 64-bit version of SUSE Linux Professional 9.3.

Can a proprietary Unix be a desktop OS that competes with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux desktops? Although it may lack the visual effects of OS X, and installation is tricky in parts, Irix is a stable desktop OS -- possibly because it runs only on SGI's own hardware.

Microsoft plans to follow its browser rivals and introduce tabbed browsing to its forthcoming Internet Explorer 7.

Till Adam only started hacking on the KDE mail client, KMail, because he wanted some features implemented from the command-line client Mutt. Now he is one of the main developers of the KDE-PIM project, which KMail is part of. KDE Dot News caught up with Till to talk about e-mail protocols, groupware and implementing them in KDE.

Open Source collaborative development site, SourceForge.net, has surpassed the 100,000th project milestone. The momentum behind SourceForge.net’s continued rapid growth has been fueled by the visibility of new projects posted by leading organizations such as NASA, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and SalesForce.com. In the past 100 days, SourceForge.net has approved and launched nearly 6,000 new projects.

While open source software is gaining ground on the back end, it needs to succeed on the desktop to become a true commercial success, because this is where the public eye is focused.

Postfix is fast out of the box, but like other packages, you can usually tune it to work even faster. Furthermore, there are situations where Postfix may not perform as well as you expected, whether because of hardware or software limitations on the server system or other adverse conditions, such as a big influx of spam or undeliverable mail. This article shows you how to find and analyze the most common performance problems.

A new wave of freely available Open Source business software is experiencing rapid adoption by business users. With hundreds of thousands of downloads to date, Open Source solutions like NetOffice and SugarSuite are beginning to tread on territory traditionally occupied by Microsoft products such as Project and Outlook.