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Roughly 1,000 technology experts gathered at an OpenStack technology conference last week, and some of those conference attendees believe OpenStack coupled with KVM (Kernel-based virtual machine) or Xen will trip up VMware within the next couple of years. But VMware will be tough to catch. Here's why.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin final is almost out. The final release it scheduled to be out in the 26th of April 2012. After you actually get done with the installation, there would likely exist a heap of things you still need to take care of. This post will share some interesting insight and ideas about what you can and should do after a successful installation.

Intel is finally announcing the first Ivy Bridge processors this morning. I have been extensively testing out the Intel Core i7 3770K, the current high-end Ivy Bridge processor, for the past few weeks under Ubuntu Linux. I have been extremely pleased with the Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor under Linux with its phenomenal performance, power efficiency, and new features. This article is the first of many looking at the Linux performance of the new Intel Ivy Bridge processors.

This coming Thursday marks the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Many users will download Ubuntu, try it and give up because of some small technical problem. Here is a list of tutorials and resources for Ubuntu beginners that I have found to be useful.

After all that theory and talking, let's start by building the code written through the last nine parts of this series. This part of our series might actually serve you even if you learned C someplace else, or if you think your practical side of C development needs a little strength. We will see how to install necessary software, what said software does and, most important, how to transform your code into zeros and ones.

If you follow the Humble Bundle series of game packages, or if you’re one of the unlucky individuals to get your mitts on its latest incarnation, you might be privy to a bit of controversy regarding the package. The controversy, simply put, involves the fact that all of the games in the package require defunct, unsupported Adobe products to function

Liam Fraser, creator of the popular Raspberry Pi Tutorials YouTube series and System Administrator for the Raspberry Pi Foundation shows us how to set up the Raspberry Pi and write our first Python ‘Hello World’ application…

Again PCLinuxOS delivers a release of impeccable quality in the face of a community that demands the highest standards. This distribution is becoming increasingly user-friendly, and the features continue to mount up.

Lars Torben Kremer proudly announced this weekend, on April 21st, the immediate availability for download of the final version of the Snowlinux 2 operating system.

The South Africa Internet service providers association (ISPA) maintains a list of known spammers dubbed the Spam Hall of Shame. The list is contains both domains as well as email addresses, this list is published on a webpage without downloadable formats. I extract the data from this web page and publish it in a DNSBL ispa.rbl.baruwa.net, i use this DNSBL in my SAAS mail security product. So anyone should be able to use it in a similar way to the other DNSBL's like spamhaus and spamcop etc.

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Squeeze server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via http://FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

Latin America is a big place with many opportunities for KDE; major deployments of KDE software are proof. Over the years, groups of KDE developers have emerged in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and probably other places. These groups work together to make a better KDE. As we know, meeting and talking in person is important to strengthen the bonds in a community. So we decided to organize a Latin American meeting of KDE contributors following the lead of the first Akademy-br in 2009. Like Akademy-br, the first LaKademy will be similar to a sprint for developers and one for people interested in promoting KDE in this part of the world. The first LaKademy is taking place in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil from April 27th to May 1st, 2012. People were invited from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia. 12 known KDE contributors have confirmed their presence, along with 6 newcomers. Current KDE contributors recommended newcomers based on their abilities and their potential to become long-time KDE contributors. read more

JBackpack is a personal backup program. It features incremental backups, network transparency and encryption. JBackpack uses rdiff-backup for all backup and restore functions, SSHFS and SMB to access remote file systems and EncFS to encrypt backup destination directories.JBackpack uses rdiff-backup for all backup and restore functions. The most interesting feature of rdiff-backup is incremental backups.

It doesn't happen often here in the Linux blogosphere that FOSS fans agree unanimously on -- well, on pretty much anything. Truth be told, there's generally good reason for the dissension. Take Microsoft's latest maneuvers, for example -- are they good news? Bad news? It's not always easy to tell. Last week, however, one of those rare announcements was made that brought universal joy to Linux aficionados around the globe.

Aside from the usual kernel and software updates or upgrades, there is very little difference between Chakra Archimedes-2012.04 and Chakra Archimedes-2012.02. So this review will not be as comprehensive as the one published in February, but for those new to Chakra, here are the major features of this distribution:

RedImages is a free and open source batch photo or image resizer apps. It lets you resize hundreds of photos or images in a matter of minutes in a quick and easy way.

Ohio LinuxFest is very pleased to announce that Wendy Seltzer will be keynote speaker at the 2012 event, to be held September 28-30 at the Greater Columbus convention Center. Wendy Seltzer is Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, researching openness in intellectual property, innovation, privacy, and free expression online.

OSX is somewhat unique both in the fact that this is not a common server which is monitored and also your actually working with two operating systems, FreeBSD under the hood and OSX built on top. However, these examples could also be used for Linux distros with a few modifications. SNMP is selected for creating the checks because it is the easiest to deploy with minimal time on the servers to be monitored.

I have always had a fascination with the idea of alternative operating systems and over the years i have come across and played with (even developed applications for) a variety of them. However there has always been a few I've followed closely which have stood out, head and shoulders above the crowd. I have compiled a short list and description of what in my opinion are the top 5 best alternative, open source operating systems out there.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Dolphin now uses KMessageWidget for error and information messages, and has faster file sorting Initial Fuse backend implementation for Solid It is now possible to save images from HTML mails in KMail OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) is supported as routing backend in Marble read more