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PHP4 end of life have been officially announced, and now it should start the extensive use of PHP5, as it already has three years with us.

The version 1.4 of "Ultimate Ubuntu Edition" is now released, and it is the first time it comes in a sigle CD, this one is based on Feisty Fawn

You can (at your own risk) upgrade your Ubuntu Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon, as described in this article, just remember Gutsy is not stable yet.

Install two different Linux distributions on your system, and share the /home directory, in the case of this guide the Distros chosen are Debian and Mandriva, but this guide could be used to install any flavor of Linux.

This is an article, showing some of the most popular Linux Distros, and also the versions of the packages that comes with its last stables releases.

Configure and use Beryl on the new Mandriva 2007 Spring is really easy, and you do not even need to open the console, as everything could be done from the graphic interface (GNOME in the case of this guide)

Considering Dell as one of the biggest in the market, what will the impact of its latest decision of offering Ubuntu in Ubuntu and Linux popularity and market share?

How Composite projects are helping Linux, well their most important way to help, is attracting more users to Linux, which will later give more support to it.

Analysis of some scenarios where you can use Linux, and when you can't, at least like the author says, for some more time, ... Just wait :)

This guide shows you how to configure samba for Feisty Fawn enabling it to share files with windows machines, also includes a How To install swat, for GUI configuration of samba.

As I was trying to find an easy way to backup a MySQL database with no ssh access to the server, there should be better ways, but i found this easy one. You will need a Shell script, a .php script.

There are a lot of articles out there talking about how user friendly Linux is, in fact it is, there you have automatix for Ubuntu, Xandros with it's out of the box good Desktop (XP look alike), Ulteo , and the list can grow and grow! But we should not only see Linux as a windows replacement, as it is more than that.

This article shows some facts about four of the major distros (not specifically the four most important, but four really important), it compares them according to its release cycle, admin difficulty, and so on

The release Date for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn has been delayed due to validation bugs, There is no ETA yet, but the Ubuntu team hopes the delay will be just a few days.

Complete step by step installation instructions (with screenshots) for Debian 4 (codename Etch)

There is a new update for Debian/Sarge, this is security update only, the good news is that reading in lines, we can expect that the final release of Etch is really near, as the sarge is being moved to old stable.

This is extracted from the Debian Site, we finally have Etch Stable released!! The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB.

The Puppy 2.15CE (Community Edition) is the result of collaboration of a team of Puppy enthusiasts. It is built upon version 2.14 but with many enhancements. In particular the guys have worked on an improved user-interface and nice out-of-the box first impression

On March 14th VirtualBox 1.3.8 was released, this is a Virtualization software Like VMWare but this one is open source.

Gael Duval, the creator of Mandrake (now Mandriva) and now fired from its own company, has recently released the Ulteo project.