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DistroWatch reports - The first beta release of PC-BSD 1.2 is ready for testing. From the changelog: Updated ports to current as of 6-26-06; added py-qt and py-kde ports to default install (allows SuperKaramba plugins to work); cleaned up icons folders; added DBSD Network / User Toolset into Control Panel; converted PC-BSD tools to Control Panel modules; updated KMenu to display categories; zip support included in default install; added Bash to default install; set up CD insert notification to allow playing audio CDs and DVDs; Windows key now launches K-Menu... OSDir has some nice screenshots of the upcoming PC-BSD 1.2 in the PC-BSD 1.2 Beta Screenshot Tour.

Novell has rung the changes on its management team, with president and chief operating officer Ron Hovsepian stepping up to the CEO role last month.

The Mini Koobox is based on an Intel platform built by AOpen and comes with a Linspire Linux operating system, which includes full Microsoft file-compatible office suite, DVD player and DVD-playing software, music and photo management software, Internet applications, e-mail and instant messaging capabilities.

As the IT director for a non-profit community center, I face several challenges, the most pressing being the lack of money. This means our lab is filled with donated older equipment with limited capabilities. Given this state of affairs, I am always on the lookout for free, easy-to-use open source software. I chose PC-BSD as our standard operating system because of its exemplary performance on older equipment.

Hands on: Back up files using the tar command and rsync

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer just had a chat with Blake Ross of the Firefox team, talking over points such as the project's success and how Microsoft motivated the whole project. Blake says that Microsoft's lack of browser innovation in the absence of decent competition makes him "furious," and that the Google tie-in is based more on the search engine's quality than on any marketing agreement.

Developers are demonstrating the ability of open-source databases and BI platforms to deliver advanced analytics and operate on large databases at a fraction of the cost of conventional commercial systems.

Amateur filmmaker Solomon Rothman has released a full length open source movie called 'Boy Who Never Slept.'

The Verso and IBM offering is designed to maximize a provider's ability to quickly and easily deploy voice-over-broadband services to business, as well as residential, subscribers.

This article looks at how static analysis tools can change the way you manage Java software quality.

Shopping for network "appliances", especially mid-to-lower range gear, can easily turn into a full-time job. Netgear, D-Link, Linksys, Cisco, Watchguard, Sonicwall, SnapGear, Netscreen, Multitech, Barracuda, CheckPoint, Symantec, and so forth; with all manner of options and pricing configurations. Your purchasing fun is just beginning when you finally make a selection; then comes the per-user, per-year licenses, plus support. And after all that, what do you get? Mostly, you get poorer.

Jim Hall, creator of the open source MS-DOS operating system project FreeDOS, says that while work on the project may have slowed recently, he isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. In fact, Hall says he hopes to see version 1.0 released as soon as the end of the month.

When I interviewed Richard Stallman back in 1999, he had some interesting thoughts on the subject of freedom:

I'm going to keep working on the free software movement, because I don't see who's going to replace me, and I don't see how I could do something more important in some other area. The issues of freedom that everybody's heard of are much more important than this - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free assembly. The reason I'm not more involved with them is that I don't know what to do about them very effectively.

Simpler than J2EE

Tutorial Ruby is an object oriented scripting language. Rails is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework based on Ruby and used for developing web applications.

Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu), Simon Phipps (Sun), Stephen Lamb (Microsoft) and many other are speaking at LugRadio Live 2006 on 22 and 23 July.

Full schedule: http://www.lugradio.org/live/2006/index.php/Schedule

For discounted hotel rooms and to book your ticket (£5 each) visit lugradio.org/live

Big Red consists of IBM’s very latest technology, an e1350 BladeCenter Cluster, that uses new chip technology and high speed internal networks to perform calculations at very fast speeds. Running the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 from Novell, Big Red as of today is the largest IBM e1350 system in the world,

Today, Fibre Channel is the dominant enterprise storage technology, but as with all technologies, eventually something better comes along. If you're lucky, that something is also less complex and less expensive. For storage, that something may be ATA over Ethernet (AoE), a simple and open network protocol that allows storage to be accessed over Ethernet. Here's how you can set up a test server to provide shared storage using AoE.

July 3rd, 2006: US-based Rivet Logic outlines how organisations can gain the most from Open Source content. The free White paper, which focuses on Technologies such as ECM platforms, aims to provide better understanding.

In a recent article, Linux Journal’s new Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Peterey built what he sees as the “Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Linux Box”. Being the first of his articles that I actually liked, he is way on the expensive side with his recommendations. We show here how to get along cheaper and still more modern.

This is a letter of complaint sent to the European Commission regarding the situation in Belgium, which unfortunately applies to all EU countries, which forces almost all consumers to buy MS Windows despite regulation prohibiting illegal forced and linked selling practices. The EC's response follows the complaint letter.