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Getting Things Gnome is one of the most popular organizer/to-do application for Linux. However, there has been lack of updates in last couple of years and many users thought that the project is dead. Proving them wrong, GTG developers released a new preview release version 2.9 which will eventually turn into stable 3.0 series. This release brings many new changes including those contributed by GSoC developers. There are also plans to improve GTG Web Application.

Employment on the Linux Planet is going strong according to a number of barometers. On one hand, this past week Red Hat appointed a new Fedora Project Leader. On the other hand, the Linux Foundation published a new study with career website dice.com painting a very rosy picture for the Linux job market.

Thomas A. Knight continues his 29-day blogfest with an interview with one of the worlds greatest pen & paper role playing game designers, Jeff Grubb.

The webOS platform is built on top of Linux, but has a proprietary userspace stack. HP announced in December that it would open the platform's source code and continue developing it in collaboration with the open source software community. HP began publishing the code last month with the release of the Enyo JavaScript framework. The release of the browser today is another step forward for HP's webOS open source roadmap.

Spark is an interesting alternative to Hadoop, with a focus on in-memory data processing. This practice session explores multithread and multinode performance with Scala, Spark, and its tunable parameters.

Lovin' those Long Term Support releases Commercial Linux distributor Canonical has released its third annual survey of the Ubuntu Server installed base to show what is going on out there among the Shuttleworth faithful. The survey comes just as Canonical is getting ready to put its next big server release into the field in April.…

As a long time user of OpenOffice.org, it really is just thrilling to see the innovation present in LibreOffice 3.5, which was officially released today. As a writer, this release has at least one update which quite literally will change the way I work, (hopefully for the better). In my business, word counts – count. In older versions of LibreOffice (and OpenOffice), I've always had to first write then select what I've written to get a word count. It's a two step process, that when repeated over the course of a day (I write at least 4 stories a day), week, month and year takes a real toll on wrists and arms (can you say Carpal Tunnel?)

Parallel architectures, like other hardware advances before them, require us to rewrite algorithms and data structures — especially the old standbys that have served us well

The JVM is becoming the host platform for a rapidly gaining a rapidly increasing number of new languages. Even though Java is by far the most frequently used JVM language, the following slides compare some of the emerging competitors on this platform.

No other platform today is gaining so many new and sophisticated languages as the JVM. Wasn't that the original promise behind .NET?

Join command is yet another example of text processing utility under GNU/Linux. Join command combines two files based on the matching content lines found in each file. Using join command is quite straight forward and if used currently and in the right situation it can save lots of time and effort. This article requires very basic command line experience.

Wineskin 2.5.4 update is out! You can get it in Wineskin Winery or use the normal Manual download option on the Downloads Page.

I’m used to making a review for each of the new major Wesnoth release, and so it is no exception with the latest version. It’s been almost two years since the last stable release, which was Wesnoth 1.8 released on April 1st, 2010, and 1.10 brings a whole bunch of new features, new graphics and tons of improvements regarding every aspect of the game over the previous versions.

Inspired by the tweaks of Ubuntu-using IT departments, Canonical has released a Business Desktop Remix of Ubuntu. Re-chopping Ubuntu according to the most common changes that business users make to their installs, Canonical product leader Mark Shuttleworth hopes that the new desktop-friendly boot will make it easier for businesses to work out how they can use the operating system. "Booting straight into a business-oriented image makes it easier for institutional users to evaluate Ubuntu Desktop for their specific needs", he said in a blog introducing the remix.

Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of Finnix 104, the twentieth release of Finnix. Since the first public release of Finnix 0.03 in March 2000, there have been twenty releases and 37 ISOs released to the public, totalling 4.5GB . (All releases have included x86 and PowerPC ISOs, with the exception of Finnix 0.03, 86.0, and 100.) Finnix 104 is a maintenance and rollup release, including updated upstream Debian software, Linux kernel 3.2, small functionality updates and a large number of bug fixes. (Finnix 104 is being released on Valentine's Day, and while Finnix releases are sometimes timed to specific dates, today is otherwise a coincidence. However, rest assured that Finnix does love you.)

SimplyMEPIS 11.0.12 was quietly released. MEPIS Linux is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution designed for both personal and business purposes. It includes cutting-edge features such as a live, installation and recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, a personal firewall, KDE, and much more. SimplyMEPIS 11.0.12 Screenshot Tour

Say hello to Hubworks, the guys who are about to revolutionize the restaurant business from the inside out.

Cloud computing and mobile hog the limelight Open... and Shut Open source seems to have waned in importance over the past few years as cloud computing and mobile have taken centre stage.…

newsbeuter bills itself as "the Mutt of RSS feed readers." Read this reviewer's enthusiastic endorsement of this fantastic, text-mode RSS feed reader.

Movie piracy is the next big thing. The RIAA is quickly realising that their reputation is nearly beyond unrecoverable, after taking to court single mums, dead people, and children. In the meantime, in Australia they are having secret meetings to try and work out a way to prevent movie privacy. The solution is simple: to kill movie privacy, allow people to download movies, make it cheap, and make it easy. Yes it's hard. But yes, it's rewarding.