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Here are a few ways of using KAlarm to automate and customize alerts on your Linux desktop from the command line

A Red Hat Storage 2.0 beta with Big Data and Apache Hadoop support is now available. So what is Red Hat trying to achieve in the storage market, and where do partners potentially fit into the story? Here are some educated guesses.

While recent testing has shown how Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM/Xen/VirtualBox virtualization compares between Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Bulldozer platforms, in this article is a different look at the KVM virtualization performance of the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system. In this review is a look at the KVM virtualization performance of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS compared to the earlier Ubuntu 10.04.4 and Ubuntu 8.04.4 Long-Term Support releases.

Open Octave Studio is a free and open source music production software and digital audio workstation (DAW). Open Octave Studio doesn't charge any licensing fees but have lots of features at par with many other commercial solutions. The application is written in Qt and you can install 2011 version on Linux by following instructions from here. Now Open Octave Studio 2012 is coming and they need your help in raising $50,000. These funds will be used to pay developers who are working on bringing new features. If the project is successful in raising $50k, you can win a computer powered by Intel i7, 24 GB RAM and 3TB Hard Drive.

As it turns out, a new analysis of code contributions for the OpenStack ESSEX release shows that Red Hat developers contributed more code than Canonical developers.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 6.2 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

The application I am referring to, is called KLook. That is “look” prefixed with a “K.” What KLook does, is give you the ability to view images, text files (.txt), listen to audio and play video files from one application in a slideshow fashion.

Currently, it can be used to view images in png and jpg formats, listen to audio and video files supported by Phonon, and view text files. Support for reading PDF files is just around the corner. Starting KLook is pretty simple. Just select the files you want to view or play and press the Space bar on the keyboard.

There are three things that set 4Pane apart from other file browsers: speed, lack of bloat, and a four pane interface.

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) recently became the world’s first $1 billion open source company. Now, the folks at SUSE, promoter of the rival Linux distribution, are seeking some bragging rights of their own. Indeed, SUSE says it now has more than 9,200 certified third-party applications and supports over 13,500 hardware, storage and networking devices. Impressive. But is SUSE in growth mode? Here's some analysis.

Digium, promoter of Asterisk (the open source IP PBX), is making a deeper unified communications push into Europe. The Digium effort leverages EntaTech, a telephony distributor in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The big question: Can Digium expand its international pipelines to maintain the company’s growth? Here's the update.

Small VPS if well configured can easily handle big sites, even if they are powered by CMS platforms like Drupal. It may worth the time to make a good configuration when starting a new site, you will be able to save money at the end of the day. Read here how Varnish can help you do just that.

SugarCRM, which competes with Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, has raised $33 million in funding to push deeper into the enterprise market. SugarCRM is available both on-premises and via SaaS partners. And that strategy sounds like it’s working. Here's why.

If you need to run a command every X minutes or hours, you can use cron, and here is a small guide to it.

Here are a couple Easter-day Linux benchmarks with a few more power consumption results for the Precise Pangolin, a.k.a. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...

Simon, KDE's speech recognition software, has recently migrated from Sourceforge to KDE's Git infrastructure. Developed to allow people with physical disabilities to control their computers entirely by voice, Simon has found its way into voice-controlled media centers in homes for the elderly and most recently in assistive care-giving robots. The move has also brought Simon into KDE Extragear, the kde-accessibility mailing list, and KDE's accessibility sub-forum for user support. The community around Simon has grown since the move, so this is a good time to join in for those interested in improving Simon or KDE's other accessibility projects. The Simon Listens e.V. is also accepting tax-deductible donations (translated from German) to further support development of their software. Simon's lead developer Peter Grasch shares his experience migrating to the KDE ecosystem. read more

Just in time for some Easter weekend testing, Linus Torvalds has released the second RC of the Linux 3.4 kernel...

LibreOffice is one of the popular office suite software like Open Office and is an excellent alternative to the expensive MS Office. Most of the features available in MS Office and Open Office are also available in LibreOffice, with the added features in the form of extensions.

The KDE developers have released KDE 4.8.2 today with several bug-fixes...

Welcome to Softpedia Linux Weekly, issue 194

The South African highschool IT curriculum is outdated and not adequately preparing students