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Next in our series of Python modules you should know is bcrypt. I previously wrote about the passlib package which you can use to manage passwords, in some cases a fully featured password management package is not what you want. The bcrypt package is small and allows you to manage passwords using OpenBSD's BCrypt hashing scheme. It is in fact used by passlib in the background to handle BCrypt hashes.

I want to call Ubuntu 12.04 "A Stairway to Heaven". Canonical is getting higher and higher on this stairway. Of course, current stair is far from the top. But it is higher than in versions 11.10 and 11.04.

VMware 5.0’s Hump Day and Final Turn chronicled in living color. Grab some caffeine and focus.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a couple of hours ago, April 27th, the immediate available for download of the fourth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.3 kernel series.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the "Precise Pangolin", was officially released this morning...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Preise Pangolin has been released and many of you have already upgraded or plan on upgrading, so I've made yet another post that you'll hopefully find useful, with things that you may want to tweak, fix or install in Ubuntu 12.04.

This week we look at busting 2 cloud computing myths, why software teams make sense and the new Google SDK APIs. Plus why Yahoo! is failing cartoon.

(OLPC News Editor's Note: Over the past 2 weeks we have provided you with different views on IDB's ongoing evaluation of Peru's OLPC project and the many discussions around it by Oscar Becerra and Marta Voelcker. Now when we saw this blog post by Eugenio Severín and Julián Cristiá from the IDB's education blog we immediately thought that it was a great complement to the aforementioned perspectives. Thanks to Eugenio for kindly allowing us to re-publish their post here.)

With today's updates, Canonical upgraded the default web browser in its just released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system to Firefox 12.0.

SugarCRM has just debuted a controlled release of version 6.5 of its flagship open source CRM offering. In many ways, the release is an iterative change -- it does not represent the same major shift in functionality and user interface as version 6 did, when it was launched in 2010. In one key way, however, the new version is significantly different: The user interface is much more oriented to search technology.

The Akademy 2012 Program Committee is proud to present the Akademy 2012 Sessions. Given the broad nature of KDE, the proposals submitted contained a wealth of interesting and valuable topics. From those, 28 proposals were selected that we felt would address the most relevant topics and be deep enough in the areas of most interest to the KDE Community.

Summary: CISPA authors and supporters have tried everything they can to avoid another SOPA protest - except tell the truth about their bill.

The last thing authors and supporters of dangerous cybersecurity bill CISPA wanted was another SOPA on their hands.

CISPA’s authors and supporters set up a defensive strategy to head off the whiff of another SOPA by taking notes from the protest. And they may have succeeded.

Here’s how.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 17 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes the new Ubuntu, Google Drive, Illumination Software Creator, Firefox, Steam, SnowLinux and more...

SugarCRM has just debuted a controlled release of version 6.5 of its flagship open source CRM offering. In many ways, the release is an iterative change -- it does not represent the same major shift in functionality and user interface as version 6 did, when it was launched in 2010. In one key way, however, the new version is significantly different: The user interface is much more oriented to search technology.

Canonical unleashed yesterday, April 26th, the highly anticipated Precise Pangolin upgrade of its popular Ubuntu operating system, including the Kubuntu 12.04, Xubuntu 12.04 and Lubuntu 12.04 flavors.

Ubuntu 12.04 has been released today and you may want to customize it. Some of the options like changing icon themes, fonts and many other are not available anymore by default. However, they can be changed using some handy configuration apps.

The following tutorial will teach users how to install the new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is pexpect. Pexpect is a pure Python module that makes Python a better tool for controlling and automating other programs. Pexpect is similar to the Don Libes Expect system, but Pexpect as a different interface that is easier to understand.

Canonical announced yesterday, April 26th, that the highly anticipated Precise Pangolin upgrade of its popular Ubuntu operating system, including the Kubuntu 12.04, Xubuntu 12.04, Lubuntu 12.04 flavors and Edubuntu 12.04 LTS, is available for download.

Instagram, the popular photography and social networking app for the iPhone, with a whopping 27 million iOS users, recently became available for Android. Around 5 million Android users reportedly signed up for the app in the first few days of the Android release. Then social network Facebook offered $1 billion for the company. What's going on?