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Thunderbird 11 has been released, this is a new release that comes with a new user interface with Tabs above the main menu bar to facilitate navigation and make it more contextual, fixed a various bugs including security bugs, Thunderbird notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later,

Many Linux distributions specialized for multimedia distributions have come and gone. Some were pretty good, but Dream Studio has outshone them all. Musician and maintainer Dick Macinnis has just released Dream Studio 11.10, based on Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. Dream Studio 11.04 is a tough act to follow – is it worth upgrading to 11.10?

This guide describes how to automatically search and download movie and tv series subtitles through VLC by using VLSub extension.

The HeliOS Project's Ken Starks, who is currently battling neck and throat cancer, gives an interview to update folks on his condition and how it affects the project, which provides Linux-based computers to underprivileged kids in the Austin, Texas, area.

Poor Nokia. It comes up with a really nice phone running Windows Phone 7, but it still might not be enough to make significant gains on iOS or Android.

It is here! The 2.0 beta release of RapidDisk which introduces the new RapidCache module. The purpose of RapidCache is to map a RapidDisk volume to a separate physical volume as a Write-Through and Read-Through caching node.

Near the end of February marked the release of DragonflyBSD 3.0 with multi-core speed boosts and other improvements, but how does this correlate to performance improvements in our usual open-source benchmarks?

ABLEconf 2012's keynote is "Getting Animated with Open Source" from Curtis Zinzilieta of Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS). Former RedHatter will cover Open Source contributions from WDAS and the business decisions behind those contributions.

ABLEconf is an annual business and technology Free Software conference from the Open Technology Educational Corportation. ABLEconf aims to show the Arizona business, non-profit, education and government communities that Free Software makes economic and business security sense.

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the FreeNAS 8.2.0 second beta version on 14th Mar, 2012. FreeNAS is small-scale operating system based of FreeBSD which gives the NAS [network attached storage] facilities like CIFS, FTP and NFS.

SLES 11 SP2 adds a new kernel, support for Btrfs and LXC, and Snapper to manage snapshots and rollbacks. Koen Vervloesem explains all…

Drupal, Joomla and WordPress might be all that and a bag of chips in the US market, but they are just also-rans in Germany where little-known Typo3 controls the market.

This HOWTO will give you the BEST home media and file server out there at a cheap (free) cost. It includes SSH2, Remote Desktop, UPNP/DLNA server, SAMBA Shares (Windows file-sharing), VPN server, and the Transmission bit-torrent server. The final piece of the schema is a new toy: Subsonic. This gives you web-based media streaming to watch your content anywhere via a web-browser.

Delayed seven days, the second Beta release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment was announced today, March 14th, by the GNOME Project developers.

It's not just the big distro releases that make the Linux Planet go around. This past week saw the debut of two distro releases that some might consider to be derivative, and yet they both will have tremendous impact.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.8 for the i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 5.8 is the eighth update to the CentOS 5 distribution series. It contains a lot of bug fixes, updates and new functionality. Known issues: as of CentOS 5.7 the installation kit is split into two DVDs

Pushed publicly yesterday was the test profile to run benchmarks of the popular Half-Life 2 game under Linux. As a result, coming out soon will be benchmarks of Half-Life 2 on Linux with an assortment of graphics cards and drivers.

Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the beta version of NetBSD 6.0 for testing on 13th Mar, 2012. NetBSD is secure and highly portable UNIX-like operating system which is opensource and available for number of architecture like i386, ia64, arm, armel, mips, mipsel, sparc64, pc98, powerpc, powerpc64, xbox and many more.

Frictional Games is one of those few development teams which releases Linux native versions of their games and quite possibly the only one that provides us ‘Tux Gamers’ with the survival horror fix some of us crave.

Chatter about Hewlett-Packard’s forthcoming public cloud grows louder. And I gotta admit: I like what I’m hearing. More and more of the buzz involves OpenStack — the open source cloud computing platform. HP’s apparent goal: Use OpenStack to launch a public cloud that also allows enterprise customers to build private clouds, if they so wish. Here are the potential risks and rewards for HP.

Cinnamon is a GNOME Shell fork which tries to offer a layout similar to GNOME 2: it comes with a panel at the bottom by default (optionally, you can use 2 panels or a panel at the top) that supports autohide, panel applets, a classic system tray, GNOME2-like notifications and so on, but using GNOME 3.