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Mint releases new desktop OS into already murky Linux desktop waters.

In ubuntu or other linux distributions iTunes still not available. There are several other audio player for Linux which can be taken as alternative for iTunes.

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post today pointing out that the popular Linux distribution has seen an increase in enterprise server adoption over the past year. He published a graph which indicates that Ubuntu deployments have surpassed those of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) among the top one million most popular websites.

A few minutes ago, March 15th, The Document Foundation company proudly announced the first maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.5 open source office suite software for Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms.

If you currently use another edition of Linux Mint 12, like Linux Mint 12 KDE or Linux Mint 12 GNOME, you will find that there is very little difference, if any, in functionality between this LXDE edition and those other more popular editions, other than for some LXDE-specific applications. However, if you are new to Linux Mint, this brief review will take you through some of the features of this user-friendly desktop distribution.

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Audacity 2.0.0 brings some of the fantastic Audacity Beta features into a full release, including an overhauled UI, improved effects, and lots of bug fixes...

Today we share with you an interview with gCAD3D lead developer Franz Reiter. gCAD3D is an interactive Computer Aided Design tool that can be used by engineers for prototyping models in three dimensions. Enjoy the interview!

In my initial inquiries, I heard back from HP and Dell and both those vendors mentioned they had certified their servers for E5 with Red Hat and SUSE. No mention of Ubuntu. So I checked in with Canonical/Ubuntu to see if in fact they are supporting E5 for the upcoming 12.04 Ubuntu Linux release.

Anonymous Hacker Group has released their own Ubuntu based distribution named Anonymous OS. It uses Ubuntu 11.10 as base and comes with MATE desktop environment. Many applications useful for Web security and other Anonymous approved apps are pre-installed. Anonymous OS is created for educational purposes and for tightening web security. The group has advised not to use these tools for attacking any web page or some other kind of illegal activities.

If you are using, or planning to use Linux, a good incentive is the relative security that is implemented by default. Linux systems are insensitive to a good majority of Windows and Mac OS viruses, and the GNU project in itself assures the authenticity of the software. However, every (paranoid) geek knows that there is no such thing as a completely protected system. Today, we will show you how to beef up your Linux security by making a few changes to your Firewall settings.

The Fedora Project is seeking your help to improve the GNOME Shell and its extensions...

Still waiting for February paycheck Android developers across Europe are up in arms as Google hasn't processed their March payments, which should have arrived more than a week ago.…

Unfortunately legal issues, specially patents lawsuits, are much in the news. From Yahoo suing Facebook to the ongoing battles surrounding Apple and other mobile device providers, my RSS and social media feeds seem to have more and more articles about legal issues everyday.

Oracle’s history of not caring too much about Free Software led several contributors to fork OpenOffice.org. And that is a very brief account of how LibreOffice came to be. Not knowing what to do with OpenOffice.org after most of the contributors left to join The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of LibreOffice, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) on June 1 2011. Since then, the ASF has been working behind the scenes to take over complete control of the project’s development. It has since been renamed to Apache OpenOffice. So what exactly has the ASF being doing? The following graphic, published in a blog post here, provides a clue.

This month Arch Linux is turning 10: "I can only add Thanks Judd for this great piece of software, and to all the contributors out there, thank you too for your time and effort, making Arch Linux one of the most used Linux Distributions."

I love CrunchBang Linux. In my opinion, it’s one of the best distributions of Linux for older computers (heck, any computer) that is actively developed. I pieced together a Gateway M250 laptop a year or so ago (3 bad ones parted out into 1 good one) and loaded it up with max RAM (2GB). It’s now a handy little 14 inch laptop with a 1.73Ghz single core Centrino processor. Not bad…but when playing videos or streaming them, it can really struggle. So keeping the operating system lightweight on it is a definite must. Enter, CrunchBang. It’s small and fast. It’s elegant and slick.

Windows is in no way a challenge, at least not like Linux is. And before someone start saying that Linux is a challenge because it is difficult, I should add, that it could be as easy as Windows, but you can complicate it as much as you want. That is what I like about it: you can use it as day-to-day tool, but also as a hobby to learn new things.

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the availability of the Calculate Linux 11.15 on 14th Mar, 2012. It provides CDS [calculate directory server] using server version and user can use this services by the desktop medium. The main change in this version is migration to GNOME shell.

FrostWire 5.3.3 has been released, this is a stable release that comes with improvements in Search, Magnet support and performance. If you didn`t hear about FrostWire before, it is “FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire.