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Another update here on the release cycle of 5.0 for all our thrilled fans. Beta 1 of Gnome and KDE has been released to testers. We will be in this phase till about Sept. 2nd as Fabio is taking vacation till than. Once he gets back, we will than look at the issues to hammer out a beta 2. So far I have only gotten to try out the gnome edition. So we are kinda looking at least the middle of Sept before a final version will be out and for sure by the end of Sept, knock on wood.

Last week I took the 20-minute BART ride from the East Bay over to Moscone West in San Francisco to visit what was once known as LinuxWorld and is now OpenSourceWorld, Next Generation Data Center, and CloudWorld all rolled into one event. Like many others, having been to previous LinuxWorlds, I was curious to see how this re-branding and grouping of events would pan out. LinuxWorld had been getting quite the panning (no pun intended) over the last five years or so, so could the new event cut the mustard and reel back in its once committed group of sightsee

The Linux Foundation has released the first update to the popular "Who Writes Linux" study originally published in April 2008. The study is written by kernel developers Jon Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman and surfaces the people who are writing the code, the companies that are sponsoring the work, and the pace of development.

For those that don't know, East Austin isn't exactly Beverly Hills...Not by anyone's stretch of the imagination. Through it's reputation for violence, gang activity and drug trade, East Austin is populated with some of the nicest people there are. I now know many of them. Hard-working and loving people that just haven't yet found their way out of that place. We decided to do what we could to give them a hand...a guiding hand out of there.

This is the second part of the two-part tutorial. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to model a character head in Blender. Along with basic modeling tools we will also focus heavily on good topology and how to create a clean mesh that will deform well during animation. To read the first part, click: Character Head Modeling in Blender: Part 1

The first development release for Fedora 12 (codenamed Constantine), Alpha 1, was supposed to be released this week. However, Red Hat has pushed back its release to next week Tuesday. While there is this seven-day delay, an Alpha 1 RC1 ISO spin is available and we decided to provide a very early and brief look at the Fedora 12 release.

There has been relatively little noise out of the realtime preemption camp in recent months. That does not mean that the realtime developers have been idle, though; instead, they are preparing for the realtime endgame: the merger of the bulk of the remaining patches into the mainline kernel. The 2.6.31-rc4-rt1 tree recently announced by Thomas Gleixner shows the results of much of this work. This article will look at some of the recent changes to -rt.

The PySide team is pleased to announce the first public release of PySide: Python for Qt. PySide is a project providing an LGPL'd set of Python bindings for the Qt framework.

A production ready version of the MySQL fork Drizzle could be ready by the end of this year. Brian Aker, Drizzle lead architect, has said the project will start to look production ready and people can begin production testing in earnest after the next milestone build. If development and testing goes as hoped that means we could potentially see this light-weight and modular version of MySQL ready by mid December - the date of the next milestone. That's a year and a half since Drizzle was unveiled.

Nano is an alternative text editor. The key sequences in nano are entered using the keyboard, making nano a "modeless" editor, unlike vim. With the exception of Control and Meta key sequences, all the keys will enter text into the file being edited. You do not have to switch modes at all. In addition, nano provides some text aids. The 2.0 release enhances the usability and features of nano. Centos still used version 1.3. UTF-8 support Improved color syntax highlighting Copy text without cutting Verbatim input mode Repeat last seach w/o confirmation (Meta-W) Spell check/replace selected text only Indent marked text Move to beginning/end of paragraph Search within the file browser Mixed file format auto-conversion

Why open source may be the answer for companies going bankrupt.

What is commercial Linux distributor Novell going to do about server and desktop virtualization? It's a good question, and one that the company's top brass has not really addressed. In July 2006, with the launch of SUSE Linux 10, Novell was the first commercial Linux vendor to ship a Xen hypervisor tuned for Linux. And it is arguable that Novell probably jumped the gun, given the state of Xen, its management tools, and Novell's support of other operating systems beside SLES 10 at the time with its embedded Xen product.

We did show you before how to install dreamweaver on Linux using wine , and as we believe that there are good open source alternative for this product , we will try to show you today some of the open source Dreamweaver alternatives for Linux.

IDC is out with a new report (here's the abstract link) forecasting Linux revenue from 2009-2013. The part of the data that I find really surprising is the fact that Dragoon notes that according to IDC's forecast, Linux operating systems revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2012 and continue to grow to $1.2 billion in 2013. IDC is in the habit of forecasting big numbers for Linux. Let's take a trip down memory lane shall we? In 2007, IDC analyst Al Gillen (the same guy that wrote the current report), forecast that the Linux ecosystem would be worth $40 billion by 2010.

Software on wheels is one kind of roadshow where iPOTT tries to expose software offline. This roadshow is going to be held in Tech park of Chennai India on 30th Sept 09. Last show was the big hit and this roadshow will rock.

What Dell showed at a China Mobile event Monday was not a finalized smartphone, the computer maker said -- rather, it was a proof of concept mobile device. Still, reports from the event were enough kick speculation into high gear, and for now, it looks as though Dell could be going down the Android path in developing a mobile handheld.

One of the many ways KDE makes our lives easier is by providing graphical interfaces for many of the tasks that computer users want to perform. Web browsers typically accept certain protocols that connect them to resources, such as http, https, and http://ftp. In KDE, these are called KIO slaves, and nearly all KDE applications can interact with them. What makes KDE unique is that there are over 50 KIO slaves available for use. These include everything from basic file management (file:/directoryname) to remote network management (remote:/). I have selected a few notable KIO slaves to demonstrate how they are used and have also included a list of useful ones at the end of this post.

Reader Alan Rochester told me about xkill, the utility that helps you ... kill things on your Linux desktop. I had gFTP die on me today and gave it a try.

As with any volunteer-based concept worth its salt, it would appear we are not quite in agreement here as to how one laptop per child initiatives should be implemented. Discussing what hardware platform and what operating system we should use sometimes pales in comparison with debates on the inherent ideology of education that should be pursued. The very fact that I, personally, assume that our effort should necessarily be a volunteer, grassroots, community-based movement has very strong opposition from those who are running projects from a top-down, central-government perspective.

In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.