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Almost two years ago, The Linux Foundation launched the Open Compliance Program to help companies manage their end-to-end open source license compliance processes. We have continually added papers, training, tutorials, and dedicated Legal/Compliance session tracks at conferences like Collaboration Summit to help make compliance processes easier to understand, and more cost-effective to implement.

DragonFlyBSD is a shining example of BSD-style operating-system diversity melded with (also BSD-style) project-to-project cooperation -- and (also BSD-style) one man's quest (with the usual hearty band of supporters) to bring his vision to servers, appliances and even desktops near you.

Mageia is nearly in its second iteration, and the Mandriva fork has gone a long way to establish its own identity while retaining the best bits

In March Rob Weir put up a blog entry entitled “Where did the time go? (A look at the Apache OpenOffice timeline)”, showing the slow progress of Apache OpenOffice through the process of acceptance into the Apache fold. Richard Hillesley looks at the issues…

Father of Linus Torvalds, Nils Torvalds will be a member of the European parliament. This is because Carl Haglund, now a member of the European Parliament is rising to the chairman of The Swedish People´s Party in Finnland, and he will leave his place in ´the parliament.

Reverse SSH tunneling is a common technique for making a machine sitting behind NAT accessible from the Internet. Usually, this involves some command-line trickery, but localtunnel provides a hassle-free way to enable access to a server on a local network.

- OpenStack®, the open source cloud operating system, today released “Essex”, the fifth version of its community-driven software, with a focus on quality, usability and extensibility across enterprise, service provider and high performance computing (HPC) deployments. OpenStack Essex allows users across the globe to leverage pools of on-demand, self-managed compute, storage and networking resources to build efficient, automated private and public cloud infrastructures.

When it comes to Ubuntu, Canonica’s Linux distribution, most pundits keep close tabs on April and October. Like clockwork, Canonical always releases Ubuntu upgrades during those months. Indeed, Canonical is beta testing Ubuntu 12.04 (code-named Precise Pangolin) now and expects to ship the new Linux release on April 26. Ubuntu 12.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, which means it may appeal to businesses. But is Canonical doing enough to catch on with corporations? Here is some perspective.

Elementary GTK theme 3.0 has been updated to version 3.0, this being the first stable release that supports GTK3. Here’s Changes in elementary GTK theme 3.0 since the previous stable release: GTK3 support, including :backdrop class

Adding a dash of color tint to a black and white photo can often produce a dramatic effect, and digiKam does have a handful of toning filters for you to try.

And that is what this tutorial is all about. Very briefly, with screen shots to clarify, but detailed enough for a new user to get the whole picture, it describes the different user account types on a desktop using the GNOME 3 desktop environment, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu-based distributions.

Horde is a groupware suite that offers email, calendar, task, contact management and more things. It also offers SyncML and ActiveSync to synchronize with your cell phones or other software. This tutorial explains how to install Horde 4 for ISPConfig on Debian Squeeze.

Users are asking what kind of environment we are using in Foresight, We are still using GNOME 2, openbox and xfce. Also recently LXDE has been added. (KDE 3.5 and 4 are available but need more help to keep uptodate)

In other news, several games have been added and python 2.7 support will come soon.

The Linux Foundation present a video with title “How Linux is Built” and explains how linux is developed, this video presented with beautiful dynamic typography.

Skeltrack is a Free and Open Source Software library by Igalia for tracking the human skeleton joints from depth images. It is implemented with GLib and uses plain mathematics to detect the human skeleton and although it does not use any database, it was inspired by Andreas Baak's paper: A Data-Driven Approach for Real-Time Full Body Pose Reconstruction from a Depth Camera. Skeltrack devs have recorded very cool videos showing Gnome Shell and Linux games being controlled through gestures.

ownCloud, the open source cloud file syncing and storage service released two new business versions this week, offering businesses an alternative to solutions like Dropbox and Box.

MComix is user-friendly and open source comic book reader that lets you read and manage your comics, come with features customizable image viewer and can reads images archive files such (ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or tar).

Android is now back in the Linux kernel as of the recent 3.3 release. That doesn't mean that Android however is a first class Linux citizen, according to developers speaking at the Linux Collaboration Summit this week.

Larry the Free Software Guy apologizes to No Starch Press for taking so long to review "The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction" by William E. Shotts, Jr. It's not that he reads slowly, it's just that the book was so interesting that he had to do most of the command-line things he learned in the book that was as entertaining as it was educational.

IQnection Internet Services, Inc, an Internet Hosting company in Doylestown, PA, today has announced an agreement with Linux Online (owners of the Linux.org domain name) to create a new community oriented website, publish/maintain content and host the Linux.org site.