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Petter Reinholdtsen announced the availability of the SkoleLinux 6.0.4 which id debian based Linux operating system mainly for school and colleges. This distribution is also known as "Debian Edu". This distribution contain over 75 packages for students and 15 packages for networking.

I was able to boot using a Live CD, but several of the ones I have didn't work. Time to purge my "rescue disk" collection, download the latest Trinity Rescue and Knoppix, etc. The one that did work would not recognize that the HD even existed. So no fdisk, no mounting the partitions for backup, nothing. Doomed, I thought. Fried disk. Right.

Paul Seelig announced last evening, March 11th, the immediate availability for download of the Window Maker Live CD 2012-03-11 Linux operating system.

"My concern is that the evolution acceleration curve for technology, specifically how users interact with the interfaces, is too steep, and Ubuntu starts running the risk of being too clever, too quick," said Slashdot blogger yagu. "It's hard to evangelize linux/ubuntu/favorite distro and find out users are too confused to understand and use it because every time they look, it's different."

Linus Torvalds announced last evening, March 11th, the last (hopefully) Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.3 kernel.

Here's the first bits of information following Phoronix tests of the "Southern Islands" AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card running under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with the Linux 3.2 kernel and the AMD Catalyst driver.

If you are looking for the best information gathering, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, RFID, stress testing, forensic and anti-forensic applications, you will find it on BackTrack. This tutorial shows how to install it on an external hard drive.

Standards-based open Web technologies are increasingly capable of delivering interactive multimedia experiences; the kind that used to only be available through plugins or native applications. This trend is creating new opportunities for gaming on the Web. New standards are making it possible for Web applications to implement 3D graphics, handle input from gamepad peripherals, capture and process audio and video in real-time, display graphical elements in a fullscreen window, and use threading for parallelization. Support for mobile gaming has also gotten a boost from features like device orientation APIs and improved support for handling touchscreen interaction.

I struggled for ages getting Samba to work reliably and made quite a few wrong turns on the way. I was just trying to set up a simple Linux file server to store music, photos etc. but eventually found a foolproof (probably) way to do it. The following works and has been tested several times on fresh installations. This is not meant to be a high security setup, all folders are accessible to everybody for read, write and delete. If you have stroppy teenagers who want exclusive access to their own area on the server, then you can use this as a starting point. A few simple changes would achieve that level of security but it is beyond the scope of this tutorial.

The Mozilla Foundation has started work on a Firefox port that will run in the Windows 8 classic desktop and the tablet-friendly Metro user interfaces. Moz dev Brian Bondy, who described the project in detail on his blog, said the goal is to deliver a single browser capable of straddling the Microsoft operating system's split personalities, rather than building two separate applications. Mozilla unveiled its plans for Firefox on Windows 8 in February. An alpha and beta are due in the second half of 2012.

Leading open source enterprise email and collaboration platform now available through ClearOS Marketplace and features easy install, sync and console management

Wsorrow.pl is a remote web scanner. It can scan for web server misconfiguration, version detection, enumeration, and server information. Written in perl, this script will run out-of-box on most Linux systems. While there are many other scripts and programs that perform similar scans, web-sorrow is versatile and useful enough to be included in your toolbox.

While digiKam won’t rival dedicated software for tethered shooting, you can use the application’s Import interface to trigger the connected camera and instantly fetch photos from it.

ABLEconf on Saturday March 24th now has student half-price registration. Students may be especially interested in Tucker Wolfe's Resume Writing Strategies and Tips workshop

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.

Some new details have emerged concerning the 2012 X.Org Developers' Summit, which will take place this September and commemorate 25 years of X11...

Canonical seems to be cooperating with upstream manufacturers to bring better hardware support to Ubuntu. Here’s how, and what it means for the lives of Linux users everywhere.

In this post, i will show you how to install and configure samba in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin (Beta1 + ), this works also for previous releases of Ubuntu.

Semplice means Simple in Italian. How simple is this distribution? Is it "just another Debian spin"? Or something worth looking at? I was asking that question of myself.

The latest version of Semplice Linux is 3.0 Alpha. In addition, there is a version 2.0.1, which is called “Stable”. How stable can a distribution based on unstable Sid be? Quite a dilemma!

This article is aimed at Linux newbies, enthusiasts and developers who are yet to take the plunge.

A big task was pending since a very long time in my todo lists. It was installing and trying out Linux. Having heard about many features and praises about Linux and programming on the LAMP stack from a few of my friends and colleagues, I decided to give it a try myself.

Hackety Hack is an Free and Open Source toolkit that teaches individuals how to create Application with GUI using Ruby Programming language. in additonal, Hackety Hack is Toolkit to Make Learn the Ruby Programming Language Really Easy and Fun because It combines an IDE with an extensive Lessons system.