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It truly is a beautiful thing when something just works. Network-attached storage devices deliver ease of use, small footprints, and high capacities at commodity prices. Paul Ferrill examines the VIA ARTiGO A2000 Storage Server, a shoebox-sized FreeNAS-based NAS with capacity to burn.

Our friends at Unigine Corp have published a 2009 development road-map for the Unigine Engine, their cross-platform gaming engine that is able to deliver stunning graphics on Linux. In 2009 the Unigine Engine is set to receive support for game consoles, improved physics capabilities, multi-monitor support, world layers support, an integrated terrain editor, high-level vehicles support, a new game logic framework, and much more.

BleachBit is a simple cool utility to delete unnecessary files on the systemt to free disk space. This includes application and browser cache, temporary fiiles and cookies. Among the many supported application files are Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, firefox, Adobe flash, java, KDE, openoffice,Opera, XChat, rpmbuild etc.

Anthony Lineberry, a Linux expert, announced during his presentation, "Alice in User-Land: Hijacking the Linux Kernel via /dev/mem", at the Black Hat security conference now taking place in Amsterdam that he will shortly be publishing the libmemrk library. He says Libmemrk works in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments.

Who can save Linux on the desktop? Our best hope for the future is right under your nose.

Portable Ubuntu for Windows is an Ubuntu system running as a Windows application. All Ubuntu applications appear as a window on the Windows desktop, and you can even copy&paste between Ubuntu and Windows applications (in both directions). You can also copy Portable Ubuntu to your thumb drive and carry it with you (you don't need to "install" Portable Ubuntu on Windows - all you need is the Portable Ubuntu folder). This guide shows how to use Portable Ubuntu on a Windows XP desktop.

LinuxCertified, Inc. announced a two day, hands-on course that provides attendees with experience in creating Linux kernel source code within various subsystems of the Linux kernel. This course teaches attendees to acquaints developers with the fundamental subsystems, data structures, and API of the Linux kernel

This class is scheduled for April 30th - May 1st, 2009.

I work as the IT guy for a school. We run free software on all our computers. So far majority of our computing needs has been met by free software. ( all of them if we exclude matlab and some freedom hating multimedia codecs.) One area that has been quite shaky is a good tool that can be used for merging different pdf files into one. There is a tool called pdftk but its command-line and while i don't have a problem using it, its hardly the tool i want to recommend for our staffs and students, so when this morning i saw a dent on identi.ca about a tool called PDF-Shuffler which among other things provide an easy way to merge PDF files i decided to to Investigate.

When I set up this Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop with OpenBSD 4.4 late last year, I decided to go with Firefox 2.0.0.16 instead of the newer Firefox 3.0.1. I had used FF3 in Ubuntu and on Windows quite a bit, and I finally began running it in Mac OS now that I finally upgraded the iBook to OS X 10.4. But until now I stuck with FF2 on this OpenBSD laptop. I finally decided to make the leap from FF2 to FF3.

Yes, he appears to be using a Mac, but he could still be running any number of Linux distros ;)

Psystar, the company who began selling Mac clones, has now been around for a year without being shut down by Apple, despite their best efforts. Does this little company pose a threat to Apple or is it just a particularly annoying fly to be swept away?

The Ubuntu project has published a "release candidate" or final testing version for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution. "We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user," said Ubuntu developer Steve Langasek in an e-mail.

The Title of this blog? It has nothing to do with us. Rather, it has everything to do with a group of people who care enough to wade through the human filth of child abuse and rescue those needing them long ago. They've humbled us with a call for our help.

Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation today announce its 3-D online community service for the EVO Smart Console. The open source 3-D community will be known as "Our Universe." The new open platform will allow users to create their own avatars and explore a real-time virtual world.

Version 7.50 of the Citadel open source groupware for Linux has been released. The new version improves the template system of Citadel's WebCit web interface and uses JavaScript to enhance the mailbox summary view. According to the release notes, its message display and email composition dialogues have been updated.

One of the nice things about Linux — but by no means the most important — is the enhanced security that comes along with running it. That doesn't mean Linux never runs into security issues, though, and this week, the vulnerability in question centers around a nifty little service called udev.

We are just one week away from the release of Ubuntu 9.04 and with that it is now time for the Jaunty Jackalope release candidate. Ubuntu 9.04 features the GNOME 2.26 desktop, X Server 1.6, and the Linux 2.6.28 kernel...

Microsoft's brawl with TomTom over FAT patents has been seized on by software-freedom advocates as a wake-up call for people to adopt GPLv3. Open-source developers can protect themselves, their customers and the cause of software freedom in general by switching code currently under GPLv2 to the updated GPLv3, the Software Freedom Law Center has said.

Jaunty Jackalope has sprung a step closer, with the release of final pre-production code for Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix edition. The Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate was kicked out Thursday afternoon. The Ubuntu team behind it has reported that the release candidate is "complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user", but that it does provide the caveat that there are still a few known bugs.

If you are anxious to get your hands on some nice CDs with the new Ubuntu 9.04 operating system, then you should pre-order them right now from Ubuntu's ShipIt service, free of charge!