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Apple-approved software welcome, desktop is the new fondleslab Apple released a developer preview of Mountain Lion today before the new operating system is let out of its cage in the summer.…

A quick tutorial on switching from FreeNAS to Ubuntu for a fileserver.

Intilop’s CTO, K. Masood to Present “How TCP Offload Engines scale up the TCP traffic bandwidth by up to 8x on existing Ethernet Networks”, at the Ethernet Summit in San Jose, CA USA.

I installed MS Office Professional 2010 on my Ubuntu computers and it's working fluently.

The BEST way to make a custom launcher in KDE without adding anything extra...

This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers and Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and /var/vmail (email account data) folders.

BBC creating new open source cross-platform education based IDE that will run on Raspberry Pi and Linux

RebeccaBlackOS is an Ubuntu remix dedicated to Rebecca Black, American pop singer and dancer. Besides a custom theme, the live CD also offers an opportunity to try out the Wayland display server. RebeccaBlackOS Screenshot Tour

Accessibility to computers for people with vision, hearing, or physical impairments needs to be a part of fundamental design, and not an afterthought. Progress in the proprietary world is slow, and even slower in the Linux/FOSS world. But thanks to some dedicated people some significant work has been accomplished, and the groundwork laid for a common platform for all Linux distributions to build on.

Android is cool but not cool enough to convince anyone to use it exclusively. You’ll have to support Apple too.

All right everyone, there is a good news. Pre-orders for KDE Plasma Active/Mer based tablet Spark has just started. Plasma Active is a joint project by the KDE community, basysKom and open-slx. The goals for this open source project are to deliver a fast embedded UX platform with minimal memory requirements, provide customizable and modular to support different form factors and design an interface that adapts as users change Activities. Plasma Active is intended for all types of tablets, smartphones and touch computing devices such as settop boxes, smart TVs, home automation or in-vehicle infotainment.

Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper 0.4.2 has been released, this is a bug fix release that comes to fix this critical reported bug , in addition to the bug fix, this release added the option to move the earth instead of the sunlight (beta), added the option the center maps position, Moon image option now changes only once a day, added dependencies: curl and graphics magick-image magick-compat

AMD today launched the Radeon HD 7570/7770 graphics cards as the latest GPUs built on the GCN architecture. Unfortunately there still is not any open-source support for the Radeon HD 7000 series hardware nor has AMD sent out any review samples to Phoronix. But there is some other Catalyst Linux news to share.

I don't often fill my personal blog space with entire articles or comments from someone else, but every now and then, every blue moon or so, you run across something that is just so good, you can't let it go.

There are several menu styles available for users of the K Desktop Environment. Virtually all, should be familiar with the Classic menu, the Kickoff menu, and Lancelot. I have recently published several articles on the Takeoff Launcher, and there is, of course, Mandriva’s ROSA Launcher.

Today, I bring another menu style to your attention. It is called AppMenu-QML.

Pick your perquisites, Penguin people It pays to be a Linux expert, and if you have any needs that are not being met by your employer and you have Linux skills, now might be a good time to start making some demands.…

Transmission developers announced a few days ago that the first Beta release of the upcoming Transmission 2.50 torrent client for Linux, Mac OS and Windows platforms is available for download and testing.

We’re finding out more and more about Windows 8 as its beta release approaches. And, you know what? The more I find out, the more I feel secure about saying Windows 8 will be a flop.

Pat Riehecky proudly announced last night, February 15th, the immediate availability for download of the Scientific Linux 6.2 operating system.

The finding, reported in a paper (PDF) submitted to a cryptography conference in August, is based on the analysis of some 7.1 million 1024-bit RSA keys published online. By subjecting what's known as the "modulus" of each public key to an algorithm first postulated more than 2,000 years ago by the Greek mathematician Euclid, the researchers looked for underlying factors that were used more than once. Almost 27,000 of the keys they examined were cryptographically worthless because one of the factors used to generate them was used by at least one other key.