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Part 1 of 3 articles focusing on taking a stock Ubuntu installation and turning it into a visually pleasing and overall functional desktop has been written by Tuxme.com.

GoblinX needs help from international users to translate to french, deutsche, italian and spanish. [GoblinX is a bootable live CD distribution based on Slackware Linux.]

Sure, LinuxLinks.com has thousands of links, but it also provides helpful discussion forums about jobs, bargains, programming, and how to get started using Linux. There's a newsfeed and a wiki, too.

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for Jan 12, 2005. Over the winter break and past week at OSDir.com we had the following screenshot tours on our agenda: Mandrakelinux 10.2 Cooker, CentOS 3.4 Beta, ProMEPIS 2005 Beta 2, MoLinux 1.0, Vidalinux Desktop OS 1.1 Download, Ubuntu Linux 4.10 (French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Mandarin), SAM Xmas Fun 2004, Games Knoppix 3.7, SuliX 2.0, ASP Linux 10, Sun Java Desktop System 2, and OpenOffice.org 1.9.69 Base. Yeah, we've been busy!

Firefox fever is spreading like wildfire, if the active community espousing the open source browser from Mozilla is any indication. SpreadFirefox.com is a Web site created by and for fans of Firefox. It's the hub of a quickly coalescing community dedicated to marketing and supporting the new browser.

Linspire, Inc. Announces Major Upgrade to Open Source Digital Photo Software

The Mozilla Foundation's email client has been downloaded two million times, but one analyst is sceptical about its chances - and has also downplayed the excitement around Firefox.

IBM tries to have it both ways with supporting both patents and open source. And you know what, there's nothing wrong with that.

With the open-source community on its side and many lessons learned, the browser upstart keeps taking market-share from Microsoft. How's this for a mismatch? On one side, you have Microsoft, the world's largest software company, with $37 billion in revenues and 57,000 employees. On the other is the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit with a $2 million budget and just 16 employees wedged into a single room in a Mountain View (Calif.) office park.

One of the guys I work with saw me running Libranet on my workstation the other day and said “I bet you need an Engineering Degree to install software on that sucker”.... Sorry Jacob, you just lost a bet....

A vulnerability found in open-source MPEG audio player mpg123 received a "highly critical" rating Tuesday from security information provider Secunia.

New software developed at Penn State University promises to protect XML database queries and filter out unauthorized requests, thereby boosting query performance as many as 100 times, researchers said. QFilter, created by PSU School of Information assistant professor Dongwon Lee and three others at the university, can bypass the typical access control modules built into individual databases for security. The software can be deployed with off-the-shelf databases without requiring substantial changes to them, according to Lee.

The open source revolution has taken root and is pointing the way to future software developments. A key driver for this, according to Inus Gouws, a senior information management (IM) consultant at Computer Associates Africa, are the growing is the acceptance of the open source philosophy - the sharing of knowledge for the good of all among like-minded people - than anything else.

The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. This regularly published on-line magazine features original content and commentary for and by the GNOME Community.

IT managers who think that their Microsoft certifications give them all the tenure they need are in for a rude awakening. In fact, says author Robin Miller, their pink slips are only a point-and-click away. Learn to use Linux, he said, or you'll be left behind. To help IT managers and users see how easy it is to use Linux, Miller has written Point & Click Linux: Your Guide to Trouble-Free Computing, which has just been published by Prentice Hall PTR. Miller, who is also editor-in-chief of Open Source Technology Group, offers tips on building Linux skills and easing a company and its users onto Linux desktops in this interview. In part two, he focuses on choosing tools and distributions and supporting Linux.

The Information Technology (I.T.) profession is overrun with technical certifications, many of dubious value. Questions often arise about the value of a certification. I argue that vendor-neutral certifications are better value propositions in the same way that vendor-neutral standards are. A vendor-neutral certification is likely to remain relevant longer, have a longer lifetime prior to expiration, and apply more broadly. Whether you agree or disagree, there are fewer vendor-neutral certifications from which to choose.

Campaigners say IBM is wrong to be lobbying in favour of software patents in in Europe, and claim it's just trying to win friends by opening up 500 patents.

This is the first ever episode of The Linux Box Show, so I would really appreciate your input so that I can better service the FOSS community.

Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Knowing Knoppix is a beginner-friendly book to help new users with the Knoppix live CD. Bruno Torres conducted an interview with the Debian project leader Martin Michlmayr.

There's nothing like a new set of typefaces for starting off the new year. Like snowflakes, no two are alike -- and also like snowflakes, they have to be handled just right. After you've found the fonts you want to spend the next 12 months with, here's how you can install them correctly and easily on your Linux system by getting your package management program to do it for you.