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The "Open Garden" project uses words like "open" and "crowdsource" on their site, and yet are in fact distributing proprietary, closed source software. Is "open" in danger of becoming an advertising buzzword?

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for October 18th - 19th, 2012.

If you're the type of person who installs Ubuntu's server edition, you're also likely the sort of person who knows how to configure network settings. For most distributions, especially those based on Debian, the process is a bit strange, but familiar.

The first release of AppStream-Core is now available, which provides support for creating the AppStream database and accessing it via a GObject-based interface. This basically comes down to the simple creation of "Software Centers" for Linux...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the data center with just your magic wand and a prayer, RackSpace steps up and gives you something substantial to work with: Training and certification on OpenStack.

Whether you read an article on the internet itself, read the newspaper, watch TV or listen to radio, you’ll increasingly hear stories about internet scams and how to avoid them. I’m going to give you a brief run-down of some very basic measures you can take and software tools to use that can assist you in keeping your computing operations nice and saf

Start testing the next version of openSUSE, 12.3, with the first development release for the distro

I felt this was needed for all the many people here who may wish to develop their site without the need for a control panel such as cPanel (just dos prompt / command prompt). Typically those of you seeking to use a VPS, Semi-Dedicated, or Dedicated Server for the first time or who are generally new to Linux.

CEMEX is fostering innovation by changing the way employees work. It is encouraging a change in practices towards more collaboration, transparency, and openness, and enabling these changes through a Social Networking platform with a business sense, called Shift. These changes are challenging existing management practices, and opening the creative and strategic arena to all levels of the company. After only 18 months of being in place, these new practices have already produced benefits in an unprecedented scale and speed.

Conventional wisdom says when you go to the cloud, you lose IT jobs, but when I looked at some job posting data on Indeed.com, I found there were no simple answers to this supposition. As with any other technological shift, it gives and takes.

Yet another change for the Linux 3.7 kernel is that the JFS file-system now supports the SSD TRIM command. The JFS file-system now supports TRIM for informing solid-state disks about blocks of data that are no longer in use and can be wiped internally. There's already been Linux support for the TRIM command on SSDs with EXT4, Btrfs, FAT, XFS, and other file-systems, but now it's come to the aging JFS file-system.

Executing [a patent pool] in the real world, however, is likely to be a different story. The modern mobile space is turning out to be uniquely litigious. Even if the Via patent pool is successful in getting many licensees, companies that have paid up will still be susceptible to lawsuits on "feature" patents, like the ones asserted by Apple against Samsung. Joining a patent pool made up of big operating companies also won't stop patent trolls from coming out and filing suit, although such suits are unlikely to get injunctions that knock a product off the market.

This is a cheatsheet for ed. It includes basic opening, saving, editing, moving around and regex for ed. ed is a line editor for the Unix operating system. It was one of the first end-user programs hosted on the system and has been standard in Unix-based systems ever since. ed was originally written in PDP-11/20 assembler by Ken Thompson in 1971.

Open source is about choice, they say. So here is one more choice, use IntelliJ IDE for development of android apps.

The Calligra Suite is an unusual compilation of office tools with much potential -- but it has a good deal of maturing to do before it can advance beyond its mediocre performance following a debut almost three years ago. Calligra is a fork of KDE's KOffice that grew out of unresolved disputes among KOffice developers. The project team recently announced the second stable release.

In Ubuntu 12.10, Compiz (and Unity) are using Gsettings instead of Gconf and because of this, the "unity --reset" command used to reset Unity in previous Ubuntu versions doesn't work anymore. In case some settings are messed up and you want to reset Unity and Compiz to their default settings, here's a new way of doing this that works with Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal.

Jolla says it will launch its "Sailfish" smartphone design, which uses the MeeGo operating system abandoned by Nokia, next month, with its own patented user interface

The new point release for the stable branch of Debian has been released, includes security fixes and package updates

SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) is an simple web-based configuration application allow you to configure and manage the samba configuration file (smb.conf) via web browser. this is a GUI utility for configuring Samba, and it can be very helpful for new Ubuntu administrators who need to get Samba up and running quickly.

Hopefully you didn't buy multiple Thunderbolt displays in hopes of daisy chaining them and then using an open-source graphics driver...