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The latest release of the GNOME desktop environment includes a number of significant architectural enhancements and new applications that offer increased power and usability. Released after six months of intensive development, GNOME 2.22 will be included in Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9, which are scheduled for release in April. This article will examine many of the new features and programs included in GNOME 2.22 and illuminate how the changes and improvements impact the overall user experience. We will also provide some insight into some of the new architectural features and demonstrate how they can be leveraged by third-party software developers.

Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world, protecting more than half a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Amanda allows system administrators to set up a centralized backup server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system. Amanda development community espouses a relatively conservative development philosophy, which is a must-have feature for backup software! Amanda 2.6.0 was released on April 1st 2008 (no this is not a joke!). Amanda 2.6.0 represents a huge step forward in Amanda's evolution - improving ease of installation and configuration, security, and scalability. Furthermore, this release makes Amanda a platform to develop advanced backup and archiving applications and makes it easier for developers to contribute significant functionality.

So you got a brand spanking new Aastra 5xi phone that you want to connect to your Asterisk PBX. Implementing XML on your phones opens up a whole world of possibilities. I'll show you how to do it. These have all been tested on my Aastra 57i phone. It should work on the 55i as well. I am not sure what will work on other phones. Some things will and some things won't. This should work on trixbox and pbxinaflash as well but I haven't tested it. I may create my own RPM but for now I will show you how to set it up manually so you can get a better idea what is going on.

I would venture to say that I’m enjoying my time spent on Twitter. I’ve been using it as sort of a micro-blog that lets me connect with friends I’ve made on this site and keep my pulse on the collective tech industry. One of the things I noticed when looking at the website was that some people were posting updates from desktop clients, instead of the usual channels of web, IM, or txt message. I found the Twitter “Fan Application” website and sure enough, there’s 12 different Linux apps for me to try out. I can send tweets from inside emacs? Sounds geeky enough for me to investigate! Let’s take a look at what we have available for Linux:

From this point onwards, it is worth starting to argue in favour of ODF because of its merits rather than its ISO rubber stamp. Microsoft has single-handedly redefined the meaning and significance of ISO. It rendered ISO moot. The aggressive lobbying (and at times even well-documented bribery) has not gone unnoticed. It has gone well over the fine line and even involved bullying, smear campaigns, and libel.

Windows may boast the lion's share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various flavours of Linux across their desktops and server back-ends. In a two-part series, Computerworld investigates the role of Linux and open source software in education institutions in Australia and North America. In this, Part 1, the technology co-ordinator and network support technician from two large school districts in Canada and the US explain why Linux and other open source software is the plat du jour on their education menu. The institutions Computerworld spoke to are linked through School Forge, an open forum that unifies independent organisations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education.

Why are search engines so fast? They farm out the job to multiple processors. Each task is a team effort, some of them involving hundreds, or even thousands, of computers working in concert. As more businesses and researchers shift complex data operations to clusters of computers known as clouds, the software that orchestrates that teamwork becomes increasingly vital. The state of the art is Google's in-house computing platform, known as MapReduce. But Google is keeping that gem in-house. An open-source version of MapReduce known as Hadoop is shaping up to become the industry standard.

Why, in the midst of a major Windows Home Server push, would HP introduce a little Linux-based NAS at half the price? And why would HP make the $300 Media Vault mv2120 so full featured and easy that its $600-and-up MediaSmart Servers look A) too bulky B) too expensive C) too overloaded D) all of the above? Is HP telling Microsoft there's no need for Windows Home Server, especially in light of its recent troubles? Or is HP saying that WHS is nice, but it'd be nicer if it was actually priced as an accessory? Whether the new Media Vault is a lurch away from Microsoft's gravitational pull, or whether it's a placeholder until Redmond can come up with a formula for $300 WHS boxes, it's a pretty cool little machine.

This April Fools’ Day it needs to be special. And by special, I mean truly EPIC. I’ve been brainstorming for weeks about what I would do, and I’ve had some real killer ideas that would unfortunately fall flat on their face during execution. One idea I had was to bridge the #emacs and #vim internet chat rooms with clones that relayed messages from one room into another, one clone per person. When I saw there was 250+ people in each room, I figured it would be nearly impossible to pull off without a lot of help - someone would notice all the clones and it would be over. Then a stroke of genius struck me: For this April Fools’ day, I’ll call Microsoft to help me uninstall Linux. Yes, that’s right.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on April 12th - 13th, 2008 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

Programming problems can be solved using multiple solutions. Discover the first approach in a four part series for creating an Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML weather badge, a reusable widget that's easily embedded on any Web page.

PCLinuxOS Magazine, April 2008 (Issue 20) is available to download. If you would like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list.

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users.

Some highlights include:

1. PCLinuxOS...On a Stick
   

2. Formatting with OOo Writer
3. LPI Exam: Taking Your Linux Seriously
4. Smart Package Manager and PCLinuxOS
5. PCLinuxOS Based Distros

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Microsoft thinks its high time some quality open source games are released noting a significant hole in the Linux Gaming market. "We see it as a great opportunity to introduce Linux users to Microsoft products."

Some people are still under the delusion that Linux is written by unwashed hackers living in their parents' basements whose only social life is playing D&D and having flame wars over IRC (Internet Relay Chat) about whether vi or EMACS better and debating Picard versus Kirk. Nothing, nothing could be further from the truth.

Build 85 is the first Nevada build with xen 3.1.2 bits implemented. Several issues have been inspired due to this changes : 1. Install SNV 85 DomU at Xen 3.2 Linux Dom0 (CentOS 5.1,Ubuntu 7.10) crashes immediately due to broken by Xen 3.2 backward compatibility...

As many of you may know, the SCALE chairs have been organizing SCALE for 6 years now. We are delighted with how the show has grown and have enjoyed the countless hours that have gone into the planning and execution of the event. That effort has resulted in SCALE becoming the premier grassroots Open Source software show.

KDE is my preferred choice of desktop and every time I install a distribution I spend around an hour customizing it to my taste. Most of the distributions provide customized KDE but most of the customization go into the functional aspect of KDE(which should be the case) . This guide does not intent to point out to a specific choice but rather tells what can be done with a fresh KDE.

Discover a tool that analyzes javacore and diagnoses monitor locks and thread activities. Using Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer Version 2.2, learn to identify the root cause of hangs, deadlocks, resource contention, and bottlenecks in Java threads.

The Firebird Project today officially releases the much-anticipated version 2.5 Zeta 2 of its open source Firebird relational database software.

HOAXVILLE, USA -- In a stunning and unexpected announcement, Tim O'Really, founder of O'Really Publishing and the O'Really Network, announced today that "Web 2.0 is history, not that anyone ever really understood what it meant, anyway. In its place we offer Web 3.14159265358979323846…" O'Really said he expects to hold numerous Web 3.14159265358979323846… conferences that will "bring together a diverse crowd of lonely geeks with too much time on their hands, gullible investors, and marketing people looking for new buzzwords they can use in their PowerPoint presentations."