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That brings up this question: What is the penetration or adoption rate of Ubuntu Desktop in the business sector? I do not have the numbers, and Canonical has not released any, as far as I know, but given that Mark and Co. have had a rough going trying to persuade PC vendors to pre-load Ubuntu Desktop on personal computers sold to the public, I doubt that the adoption rate is significant. If true (I could be wrong, though), I do not thing that a separate desktop edition for business users will make any difference.

The Document Foundation releases full list of changes made to the popular office suite LibreOffice

While there's still two months left until Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" will be officially released, here are the first benchmarks of this forthcoming long-term support release. Included are desktop and workstation benchmarks along with a look at the boot performance and power consumption. The Ubuntu 12.04 LTS releases are compared to earlier Ubuntu Linux releases going back to the 10.10 release.

In the world of consumer electronics, it's common for companies to create a range of products that are all variations on a theme, containing slightly faster processors or a bit more memory. These products serve two important functions for their producers: they put the price of entry within reach of more consumers, and they induce those with a bit more cash to take steps up the product ladder and purchase a more expensive version. However, a study that has just been released by the Journal of Consumer Research suggests that the companies that take this tack have to be careful about how they go about things. Creating a product range by crippling an existing product can work against the company if word filters out.

Versioning in digiKam provides an excellent mechanism for non-destructive editing, but it does have a tiny quirk that can be a bit confusing if you are not aware of it.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

LONDON, ENGLAND – At Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) 2012 Facilis Technology, a leader in advanced shared storage solutions for post-production and content creation, will debut version 5.5 of its TerraBlock Shared Storage System featuring the Facilis Shared File System for Linux. Delivering improved compatibility, value, scalability and performance, the new software release also includes integrated server spanning and mirroring, Adobe® Premiere® Pro project sharing and a new capacity expansion product called TX16.

If you have an asterisk phone server running on a public IP, using the freePBX web GUI, and don’t have one of the latest releases it may be vulnerable. Its very common to have freePBX on an Internet routed IP, especially if you have multiple locations using the same freePBX server. And the scary part is, little documentation exists about this vulnerability, and as of right now its not listed on CVE details:

http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/6470/Freepbx.html

Back on December 17 2011, I published a review of a new Linux distribution named Pear Linux OS Panther 3. It is based on Ubuntu Desktop and has a desktop interface fashioned after Apple’s Mac OS X. It had its faults, but it was a refreshing take on the Linux desktop. That first release was code-named Panther, after Mac OS X 10.3. Subsequent releases were supposed to be code-named after the corresponding Mac OS X version. So the next version, Pear Linux OS 4, would have been code-named Tiger, after Mac OS X 10.4. But that was last year. This year, things have changed. The distribution now goes by a slightly different name – Pear Linux Comice OS, and the latest version is Pear Linux Comice OS 4.

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.