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As you probably already know, Qt 5 Alpha has been released for your consumption by Nokia labs. As we move closer to mid-life for KDE 4.8, we can see KDE 4.9 looming around the corner. With a 4.9 release by the KDE team and an alpha quality build of Qt 5 just a download away, one thing is certain. KDE 5.0 is coming...

The kernel may be the core of a Linux system, but neither users nor applications deal with the kernel directly. Instead, almost all interactions with the kernel are moderated through the C library, which is charged with providing a standards-compliant interface to the kernel's functionality. There are a number of C library implementations available, but, outside of the embedded sphere, most Linux systems use the GNU C library, often just called "glibc." The development project behind glibc has a long and interesting history which took a new turn with the dissolution of its steering committee on March 26.

Where other VoIP services and clients send data in the clear, Jitsi sets itself apart by making use of ZRTP to set up secure communication with SRTP, Secure Real-time Transport Protocol. Version 1.0 was released on April 3. This article shows how to install it on Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu or any other distribution derived from Debian.

In the battle of Citrix CloudStack vs OpenStack, Umbee Ltd. is choosing sides. Indeed, Umbee Ltd. claims to have launched the world’s first cloud hosting service based on CloudStack 3.0, an open source cloud alternative to OpenStack. Here are details.

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 11.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

Andrew Wyatt has announced the availability of Fuduntu 2012.2 on 2nd April, 2012.No major updates are there but some minor changes have been made. It uses Linux kernel 3.2.13, Chromium 17, Mozilla Firefox 11, Thunderbird 11, Pidgin 2.10.2, LibreOffice 3.5.1.

Tired of waiting for Raspberry Pi? With delay after delay, and no fixed release date in sight, maybe it’s time to look for an alternative...

Red Hat sets a new revenue milestone as development on upstream kernel and rival distributions continue.

Barry Kauler, the father of Puppy Linux, proudly announced earlier today, April 5th, the immediate availability for download of the Puppy Linux 5.3 Wary and Racy operating systems.

I am happy to present you the interview with Riccardo Capecchi. You may or may not know his name, but you are more than likely know his blog - Linuxaria.

In This tutorial I will explain to you how to change network card speed and duplex settings in ubuntu 12.04. On Ubuntu 12.04 you can use two program commad line based that is mii-tool and ethtool package. Both allows ubuntu user to modify/change and view the negotiated speed of network interface card. it is useful for forcing specific Ethernet speed and duplex settings

Linux developers and management people have little in common. Yet the latter would find plenty of which to approve in the latest kernel report - it is a dream come true as far as work practices go.

These updates are the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.2 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.1 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

Jitsi offers several advanced communication features, including secure video calls using ZRTP, conferencing, chat, file transfer, and cross-platform remote desktop sharing. It is available under the LGPL license.

Xiwtool simplifies connecting a Linux computer's wireless card to a nearby Wireless Access Point, allows anyone to browse nearby networks, and can help you configure a Linux machine to connect to wireless networks.

While browsing the tubes today i stumbled across this post. I began to read the sob story totally un-aware of who its author was. It was in fact open source, indie games developer Luke Duke. Recently Luke drew attention with the release of his "Linux Tycoon" RTS .

(Sacramento, CA, USA: April 3, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at Indiana LinuxFest (ILF: http://www.indianalinux.org/), April 13-15, 2012 at the Wyndam Indianapolis West Hotel, Indianapolis. During the conference LPI will also host an information booth and LPIC-1 Exam Cram sessions.

In this tutorial I will describe how to setup gitorious on Ubuntu 11.10. Gitorious – a Ruby on Rails web application – can be used to conclude git projects in an easy to manage user interface.

ownCloud yesterday announced their commercial offering and clients GNU/Linux based distributions, mainly Fedora and openSUSE. ownCloud is better option than proprietary Dropbox for those who have their own servers, as you and only you have access to your data.

Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on the LTS releases of Ubuntu. It makes use of the Enlightenment window manager and includes several unique features you won’t find on any other distro. I switched over to the recent release of Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 for two weeks and grew to love this little lightweight.