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Current desktop machines are equipped with multi-core processors, gigabytes of system RAM and the ability to run many programs simultaneously. With the huge range of system resources available it is not surprising the software bloat phenomenon is witnessed. This is a process where successive versions of an application consume more system resources than necessary, or offer an ever-increasing number of features that the majority of users do not use or need.

Adam Pisoni from Yammer describes traditional enterprise software as being forced to eat soup with a fork when you know very well there are spoons are out there somewhere. He says, consumerization is forcing IT to give out spoons.

At Red Hat Summit and JBoss World this week in Boston, The VAR Guy expects plenty of surprises on the cloud computing, big data storage and Linux fronts. But the first news actually involves JBoss, an open source middleware platform that continues to gain momentum with partners and customers.

As the open source community continues to grow and thrive through the popularity of such enterprise ready platforms as Red Hat, the number of open source medical applications also grows with it. The truth is, medical software is expensive. Most health care providers – doctors, hospitals, dentists, independent clinics – have been under a lot of pressure to maintain or reduce run costs while at the same time continuing to provide the quality patient care and customer service expected of the medical care industry. In an effort to control these costs, many health care organizations are looking toward open source software to help them manage their complex billing and electronic medical records.

Tip about how to record to a log file everything that is run in the terminal and its outputs. This can very helpful for troubleshooting or seeking help on forums or IRC channels.

Some people are lazy, some people haven’t the time, some people don’t know how and some people just don’t really care to try Gnome 3.5.2, but I bet you all are curious to have a look at the new Gnome. So here it is, enjoy the tour :)

We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 9 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 8, this is just another step towards world domination. There you have it, shining at full bright, for your home computer, your laptop and your home server. Linux kernel 3.4, GNOME 3.2.3, KDE 4.8.3, Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.5.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Gentoo Hardened features, Rigo -- a new way of browsing applications, ZFS tech-preview, and PAE kernel for x86 editions.

A specter is haunting the open source world — the specter of UEFI Secure Boot, or so some Linux fans fear. Recently, Canonical spoke out about its efforts to make sure the new hardware specification won’t prevent Ubuntu users from running their operating system of choice. Here’s what it had to say.

Now, Fridrich Strba, of TDF reports that the team is working on LibreOffice CorelDraw Import Filter that will make it easier to import CorelDraw text into LibreOffice. This is an important development as for LibreOffice as CorelDraw text support was missing.

We're the Mageia community, and we are very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2! We've had a great time building our community and our new release, and we hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it. Here are some of the nice things included in Mageia 2: KDE 4.8.2 SC, the current release of the popular KDE desktop; GNOME 3.4.1, Xfce 4.8.3; VLC 2.0.1; Flash Player plugin 11.2; Chromium Browser 18; GIMP 2.8 featuring the all new single window interface....

It's not often the "F-word" figures prominently in any major debate here in the Recently, however, it was catapulted into a starring role when it was uttered by none other than Linus Torvalds himself during a talk at the Aalto Centre for Entrepreneurship in Finland earlier this month. The topic was Nvidia, to be precise -- specifically, its longstanding lackluster approach to Linux.

The developers of the Debian-based Siduction Linux distribution have released version 2012.1.1, which offers minor corrections and includes KDE SC 4.8.4. In addition to the KDE desktop, the update also offers XFCE and LXD

When you build or update a website, it's a good idea to check that all the links on your webpages are OK. An excellent tool for doing this under Linux is the aptly named linkchecker, a GPL-licensed, command-line program.

However, 'OK' has more than one meaning. While linkchecker can check the URL you specify to see if it's properly formed and not broken, it can't tell you if the link points to the wrong URL.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

I'm extremely proud to announce that exactly 12 years ago today I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org, which served to introduce it to the web.

The next version of Krita, KDE's artwork program for sketching and painting, is going to be released soon. The team has released first beta of Krita 2.5 which brings many new features and improvements.

Pure OS 5 has just been released, coming with the latest Debian Testing packages, Linux Kernel 3.3.6, and more.

A recent distribution that I have seen in the news in recent weeks is one based on Ubuntu. It’s called Zorin OS. And just this week Zorin OS 6 was released. In my Linux experience, I’ve perhaps come across the name Zorin OS once or twice, but I’ve never given it a second thought. It’s a distribution based on Ubuntu. And the fresh new release Zorin OS 6 is based on Ubuntu 12.04.

The beta for version 2.5 of the Calligra Suite, a set of open source office and productivity applications formerly known as KOffice, brings improvements to the Sheets spreadsheet application, the Kexi database creator and the Krita image editor

Why do corporations give away code under free and open source licences? And how do they make a real community grow around these projects? Richard Hillesley looks at the difficulties and rewards to giving away code.

Two day ago, on June 23rd, Ferdinand Thommes has announced the immediate availability for download of the siduction 12.1.1 Linux operating system.