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Today I will continue the series of GUI applications reviews with 5 clients for the BitTorrent protocol. In this article I will leave command-line clients like rtorrent or ctorrent for some other time, focusing on KTorrent, Deluge, Transmission, Vuze and QBitTorrent.

The Wikipedia Community has begun voting on whether to change over to a Creative Commons licence. Introducing the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license" (CC-BY-SA) is aimed at making it easier to reuse content from Wikipedia and its sister projects and at enabling the integration of other free content. Existing content is also to be relicensed.

Ubuntu Server Edition, built on Debian GNU/Linux, has established itself as one of the most popular and well documented GNU/Linux server distributions. The Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu Server is provided with security updates for five years from the release date.

In what seems like a surprise move from the already famous maker of Mac clones, Psystar has recently introduced a new computer, which, interestingly, isn't capable of running Mac OS X. Psystar has made a name for itself just because it provided (and still provides) regular computers that are modified to run Apple's operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

If you’re running a small business and you’re in the market for server, you might want to consider SME Server, a Linux distribution customised specifically for the small and medium sized business environment. You can find SME Server, which is is based on CentOS, a distribution known for its stability, at http://www.contribs.org.

By releasing the Google Update software as open source code, Google aims to allay concerns over what exactly the program is up to when it phones home.

At first glance, they aren’t dating and they aren’t getting married. But Sun Microsystems and IBM will be shacking up at the MySQL Conference & Expo (April 20-23, Santa Clara). IBM is sponsoring the event, which focuses on Sun’s open source database. Hmmm. Time to re-start the merger rumors? The VAR Guy hopes so. Here's why.

Google's open source operating system will soon end up on a set-top box built buy Motorola for a Japanese service provider, according to the blog Android Guys.

A federal judge late Friday refused to restore class-action status to the Vista Capable lawsuit, handing Microsoft Corp. its second major victory in the case in the last two months. U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman denied a motion by the plaintiffs to recertify a smaller group of consumers in the suit that has accused Microsoft of misleading PC buyers in 2006 and 2007 by letting computer makers slap the "Vista Capable" sticker on machines that could run only Home Basic.

The final draft of the revised version of ECMAScript - better known by the Sun Microsystems-trademarked name of its most popular dialect, JavaScript - has been published by the ECMA and is now available as ECMA-262 for final interoperability and compatibility testing. This version, developed under the working name of ECMAScript 3.1, will be known as ECMAScript, Fifth Edition, and will supercede the current formally established standard, ECMAScript, Third Edition. ECMAScript, Fourth Edition was never completed, but - according to the ECMA - much of the work done on it has been carried into the Fifth Edition.

Web Cache will launch at MySQL Conference in Santa Clara.

About two years ago I published an article about Firewall Builder. Now that the version 3.0 is out I had a catch-up interview with its creator, Vadim Kurland, and I discovered a number of new interesting features. Read the full interview and the accompanying install howto go to Freesoftware Magazine.

ABI Research predicts that Linux and "alternative operating systems" (OSes) will overtake Windows XP in netbook sales by 2012. Reasons cited by ABI include the arrival of low-end ARM-based netbooks, as well as mobile stacks such as the Linux-based Android that are suited for these platforms.

I wanted to keep a low key on that, but the news hit the press and the avalanche started mounting. I have submitted for approval to OSI a license on behalf of my good friend and client Mr. Leonardo Chiariglione, convenor of the ISO/IEC JTC1 WG11 (also known as MPEG).

You've been hearing about Linux and you're curious. Did you know you can try it out for free? That you can install it inside of Windows just like any Windows program, or that you can try it without installing it? Carla Schroder shows how in this new series for absolute Linux beginners.

LXer Feature: 12-Apr-2009

I got an email from Jeremiah Gray announcing a new issue (#2) of Hackett and Bankwell, the educational comicbook about Linux and Free and Open Source Software from Intarcorp Ltd. Issue #2 is currently only available in electronic format (PDF) and they have decided to release it under a Creative Commons license.

There has been something of a storm in a teacup brewing over news that Microsoft will be pushing out automatic upgrades of IE8 to IE6 and IE7 users, but just how hard will it be pushing?

All the buzz is focused on Netbooks, but there is a new kid on the block that just might change things.

There is a silly myth that Linux hardware support is poor and requires a lot of manual tweaking. In reality it is excellent, and for the majority of devices is easier and better than any other operating system. It still pays to shop carefully; Matt Hartley guides us past the rough spots.