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The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3, the fourth major release of the award-winning KDE3 desktop platform. Over the past six months, hundreds of applications and desktop components have been enhanced by a community of developers, with a particular focus on integration of components.

Red Hat and Black Duck Software, a provider of services to manage software intellectual property, are teaming up to help companies protect for Linux and open source software developments.

LAMP is at the heart of Emergency Response Network Systems and is saving lives.

You've heard that Debian is hard to install. This is just not true. With the release of Debian-Installer release candidate 1, installation is a snap. LinuxBeta.com walks you through the installation process step by step in this slideshow presentation.

This well tested network backup tool depends on standard tools such as dump, cron and GNU tar. Find out how to set up regular backups for your whole network.

One of the benefits of attending conferences like Blackhat Briefings and Defcon is the networking that occurs in the background. In this case, wireless networking. I met John Hering when he and his posse were in the press room giving a demo of their Bluetooth Sniper Gun ahead of their presentation. That's when I heard John mention the "UnwireIraq" project, which aims to provide American servicemen and women in Afghanistan and Iraq with high-speed Internet access, so that they can stay more closely in touch with friends and families back home. He gave me a brief overview of the project that day. I told him I would like to follow-up with him after the conference. Now that I've done so, here's what I've learned.

Taiwanese goverment organisations, as well as its industrial and academic organisations, have recently started a plan, which will help the island's industries using Linux software to turn out up to an NT$110 billion revenue in three years. The goal includes getting software companies using Linux to generate an NT$10 billion revenue, and the hardware industry to gain an NT$100 billion revenue.

Who said .NET only runs on Windows? In this article we take a look at DotGNU and how you can get .NET applications running on Linux and other flavours of Unix.

It is has been an interesting few weeks in the world of Linux and Open Source. We have had the passionate enthusiasm of the Linux World show in California, complete with all of the marketing jamboree that such an event entails. The show illustrated, once again, just how close to the mainstream open source solutions and Linux are now to be found.