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The beta release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Margaux) is now available. This beta version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.0, GNOME 2.25.90, Xfce 4.6 RC1, X.org server 1.5, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0 (RC1)

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, February 11, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 50. On today's newscast . . . we with Linux Journal a musical happy birthday, look at open source financial myths, bundle Firefox with some bad ideas, examine Microsoft's open source software, and try to find that same Microsoft a spy.

The EE Times reports this week that Dell has released a hybrid laptop running both Linux and Windows clearly aimed at business travellers. Linux for quick tasks and Windows for more intensive ones, but will such a machine really fly in the business world?

Moonlight, the open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems has officially reached its 1.0 level. We are feature complete, we pass all the Microsoft regression test suites and we shipped support for Microsoft's Media Pack for x86 and x86-64 architectures.

Sun Microsystems has released version 1.1 of their rich internet technology JavaFX, which now includes the JavaFX Mobile runtime component to better support mobile devices. The runtime also includes a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developing JavaFX mobile applications. Sun will demonstrate the technology next week in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. Companies, including Sony Ericsson, LG, Orange and Sprint have already confirmed their support for the technology.

In this article we will see how Taxonomy makes Drupal's classification system so powerful. The method of categorizing content in Drupal makes it one of the most sophisticated content management systems around. Take the time to master working with taxonomy in Drupal, because not only will this help you to work out how to manage content better, but it will also really set your site apart from others because of the flexible and intuitive manner in which the content is organized. These attributes allow you to manage a site of pretty much any size imaginable (just in case what you are working on is "the next big thing").

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, VIM, XChat, and more.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 3.3.1 on a Debian Etch (4.0) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers' web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware.

Gedit is one of the most widely-used GUI text editors available in Linux. Every GNOME user resorts to using Gedit if not working in the command line because the editor is not only fast, but also extensible via a series of plugins. This article discusses some of the most useful such plugins and how they can make your text editing easier.

Unsurprisingly, it didn’t take long for jealous, non-HP Ubuntu users to figure out how to install the HP Mobile Experience Interface on their own computers.Basically, by following some simple steps, you can download the themes directly from the HP Mini repository.

Slowly but steadily, Mozilla grew into more areas of interest than someone could have previously imagined. Firefox, Thunderbird, Instabird for instant messaging and... Songbird. The latter is a promising audio application some of you might have gotten yourselves accustomed to. The 1.0.0 release launched in the first days of December delivers an impressive arsenal ranging from themes to add-ons. Just like in Firefox's case, these add-ons extend the application's possibilities beyond the original intent. Here are ten such extensions you might find interesting.

Phoenix Technologies announced their HyperSpace software now works with ARM processors, so it will be available for very cheap netbooks.

The polls are closed and the results for the 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are in. Ubuntu, Debian, MySQL, Firefox and KDE are among the winners. The Members Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a variety of categories including Server Distribution of the Year, Desktop Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year. The total number of categories this year was 27.

An open-source version of Silverlight has been released with Microsoft's support, as Flash rival Adobe began crowing about the new media player's death. Moonlight 1.0 from the Novell-backed Mono team was posted Wednesday, having passed all of Microsoft's regression tests. Moonlight plugs into Firefox and is available for all major Linux distributions including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu.

DigiBand is a full home version Drumming/Guitar simulator. It isn’t just intended to be a simulator, but a uniquely refreshing new experience. It is much different than simulators already out there.

In this screenshot gallery we take you through the install process and basic desktop functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, which was released to customers in late January.

Besides being a great video player, MPlayer also comes with a great utility for converting video files to different formats. You can use mencoder via the command line or in conjunction with one of the many user interfaces available for it, but CLI has obvious advantages over a predefined GUI because of the options it gives the user. I can't think of a single video filetype that mencoder couldn't convert for me when I needed it.

You've been reading Akkana Pecks's excellent articles on the nifty tricks you can do in the shell, and you're feeling the power. But one thing has you puzzled-- there are no file icons to click on, so how do you find your files? The Linux filesystem has an orderly structure; come on inside to learn how to navigate it effortlessly from the command line.

If you thought it was just because the Kindle is way cool and Microsoft SPOT was way crap, think again according to a new piece of research which reckons it is all down to something called the Convenience Quotient.

On January 20, 2009, Apple was awarded patent #7,479,949, titled "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics." This patent potentially has the power to make life difficult for anybody developing hardware or software involving touch screens. It could also bring about an unwelcome repeat of some twenty-year-old history. But any attempt to enforce this patent risks repeating a twenty-year-old conclusion.