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For the first time this week I finally had the pleasure of taking Damn Small Linux (hereafter, DSL) for a test drive. One of the companies that I work for required an easy, lightweight and quick solution to salvage an older project.

When Novell announces quarterly results February 26, CEO Ron Hovsepian will need to push far beyond SUSE Linux sales data to impress Wall Street. Here are the five key questions Hovsepian will need to address, according to The VAR Guy.

In the first part of this piece I introduced zenity : the handy tool for providing GUI interaction with your shell scripts. In this second part I’m going to delve a little deeper into the type of things you can do with this versatile tool. Read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.

If you have written a program to take in multiple lines of strings as an input from the user, you need to make sure that the input is not tainted. It is clean and as per your expectations.

Is it good news from Sun Microsystems, if you are in the market for a generic communication protocol between a key manager and an encrypting device?

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 includes 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote. This is a howto for the Trial version of Office 2007 the howto should also work for the full version as well. If you would like to test or demo Office 2007 on Linux its now possiable without having to purchase Office first.

When it comes to Netbook software, most pundits focus on Windows XP vs. Linux. But there’s mounting evidence Google Android could be the Next Big Thing on netbooks — potentially putting the squeeze on Windows and Ubuntu. Here’s the scoop.

When the vet came in she commented on my "cute little netbook" and asked me if it was an Acer. Hers, it turns out, is an Acer and mine looks quite similar.

Coverity announced today that it published the software architecture maps of 2,500 open source projects in a bid to help developers optimize their code. Coverity also released the architecture mapping tool that it uses to build those maps. The new mapping effort comes at an opportune time for Coverity, which just completed a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to improve open source code security. With the publication of the open source software architectures, Coverity is aiming to further improve open source code development

If someone just like ISP companies in Poland and Australia tries to interfere sharing by blocking network ports, censor Internet websites - it is real bad news for democracy, red light for our freedom, signal that companies have power to decide, what is good and what is bad. This injustice is so serious, that I asked Richard Stallman about his point of view on this situation. I think there is no other person in the world, who is so experienced in fighting for freedom in technical world…

In this article, we cover various aspects such as opening the query generator, choosing tables, entering column criteria, sorting and showing columns, and altering the number of criteria rows or columns. We also see how to use the AND and OR operators to define relations between rows and columns, and how to use automatic joins between tables.

Elgg is an open-source web application written in PHP that allows you to run a social-networking site. This tutorial shows how you can install Elgg on a server running ISPconfig 3.

The wait is almost over for sidux users. According to good sources from inside the sidux team, KDE 4.2 will be moved to the sidux repos in the next few days.

On this slightly belated, massively bloated show: We talk to the DPL about Lenny, Fab reviews CrunchEee and the newest CrunchBang and we also have the usual open source releases, news and some gaming-related stuff.

The Thunderbird email client is not a flashy showoff. However, it is a solid, reliable email client, it is not a malware magnet like MS Outlook, and it runs on both Linux and Windows. Migrating from Outlook to Thunderbird is a very sensible thing to do. It requires jumping through a few hoops; Eric Geier is your faithful guide in this two-part howto.

Having always been a Debian person at heart, I eagerly awaited the latest Debian version to hit the mirrors. When Lenny was released, I downloaded the DVD ISO through torrent and installed it. There are three installers built into the DVD: text based installer, graphical installer and an advanced option.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are now providing a way for web site developers to specify a preferred URL for any piece of content on a web site. The problem has been that sites may, legitimately, have the same content on different URLs. This causes problems for search engines which can't easily differentiate between these duplications. Now, a new type of "canonical" link reference can allow a page to express the preferred URL for a search engine to use.

Is your distorted view of virtual reality keeping you from adopting virtualization?

U.S. Linux vendor Red Hat has entered a cooperation agreement with Microsoft in technical support of server virtualization.

Due to recent migration Mercurial Repository for XenParavirtOps to Git Repository at kernel.org procedure of obtaining source code from from the Net has been changed. Base platform to start the test was Ubuntu Intrepid Server (64-bit) with Ubuntu Desktop installed via tasksel. Packages required by installation procedure have been installed: openssl,x11(xorg-dev),gettext,python-devel,gitk,git-core.