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Adding a dash of color tint to a black and white photo can often produce a dramatic effect, and digiKam does have a handful of toning filters for you to try.

And that is what this tutorial is all about. Very briefly, with screen shots to clarify, but detailed enough for a new user to get the whole picture, it describes the different user account types on a desktop using the GNOME 3 desktop environment, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu-based distributions.

Horde is a groupware suite that offers email, calendar, task, contact management and more things. It also offers SyncML and ActiveSync to synchronize with your cell phones or other software. This tutorial explains how to install Horde 4 for ISPConfig on Debian Squeeze.

Users are asking what kind of environment we are using in Foresight, We are still using GNOME 2, openbox and xfce. Also recently LXDE has been added. (KDE 3.5 and 4 are available but need more help to keep uptodate)

In other news, several games have been added and python 2.7 support will come soon.

The Linux Foundation present a video with title “How Linux is Built” and explains how linux is developed, this video presented with beautiful dynamic typography.

Skeltrack is a Free and Open Source Software library by Igalia for tracking the human skeleton joints from depth images. It is implemented with GLib and uses plain mathematics to detect the human skeleton and although it does not use any database, it was inspired by Andreas Baak's paper: A Data-Driven Approach for Real-Time Full Body Pose Reconstruction from a Depth Camera. Skeltrack devs have recorded very cool videos showing Gnome Shell and Linux games being controlled through gestures.

ownCloud, the open source cloud file syncing and storage service released two new business versions this week, offering businesses an alternative to solutions like Dropbox and Box.

MComix is user-friendly and open source comic book reader that lets you read and manage your comics, come with features customizable image viewer and can reads images archive files such (ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or tar).

Android is now back in the Linux kernel as of the recent 3.3 release. That doesn't mean that Android however is a first class Linux citizen, according to developers speaking at the Linux Collaboration Summit this week.

Larry the Free Software Guy apologizes to No Starch Press for taking so long to review "The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction" by William E. Shotts, Jr. It's not that he reads slowly, it's just that the book was so interesting that he had to do most of the command-line things he learned in the book that was as entertaining as it was educational.

IQnection Internet Services, Inc, an Internet Hosting company in Doylestown, PA, today has announced an agreement with Linux Online (owners of the Linux.org domain name) to create a new community oriented website, publish/maintain content and host the Linux.org site.

Greg Kroah-Hartman was asked today during a panel he was moderating at the 6th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about Google's Android on the mainline Linux kernel...

My DragonFlyBSD 3.0.1 review is finished. (Finally!!) It will appear here in Click in six daily parts starting the morning of April 4, 2012. A new part will appear at 3 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time each day until all six are exhausted on April 9. Read them all and I bet you'll be exhausted, too.

The director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center Imad Sousou outlined the chip giant's plans to invest in the open source community and provided an update on two key projects, speaking at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit in San Francisco. Intel is fully committed to open source, Sousou explained, because it wants the maximum number of people using its hardware to the best advantage. The best way to do this is to join the community, and he said Intel was now the second biggest corporate sponsor of Linux, behind Red Hat, as well as being a board member of The Document Foundation, which produces the open source office suite LibreOffice.

Jim Zemlin buoyant on open source success Collaboration Summit 2012 At the start of the 6th annual Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit, chief executive Jim Zemlin is in buoyant mood. Attendance has never been better, open source code is becoming more popular in new areas of the industry, and Linux is number one in all the sectors that count.…

It seems that my anti-Android rants have come back to haunt me like roadside Chili. Get the scoop on my first day with my new Android phone.

With the help of its embedded farm, set up in November 2010, the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) has tested and analysed Linux's experimental real-time (RT) capabilities. The OSADL analysed a total of 73 billion automated test cycles recorded over the last 12 months on more than 50 computers running mainline RT kernels on a range of CPUs.

The 6th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit: is April 3-5, 2012 in San Francisco. If you are not going there, you can watch the first day's panels and keynotes on the web (see below).

While Intel has a lot of interesting work going on right now within their Linux kernel DRM driver and elsewhere within their open-source graphics stack, operating systems like OpenIndiana/Illumos and FreeBSD are still catching up, but they're still a ways off...

The transformation of open source projects into business ventures doesn’t always proceed smoothly: Witness Mandriva Linux and OpenOffice.org, to name just a couple examples. But ownCloud, which began the launch of a commercial entity in December 2011, seems to be off to a decidedly successful start, with the release of the company’s first commercial products. Here are the details.