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Security researchers at ESET and Sophos have discovered that hackers have gone out of their way to port an old Linux backdoor Trojan to the Apple Mac OS X platform, extending their reach of computers that they can use as part of their botnets.

Repeated online harassment, all of it based on her sex, has forced a prominent female open source developer and community organiser to quit the tech industry and also rethink her participation in LCA 2012.

All keynote sessions from the LinuxCon 2011 Europe conference held in Prague this week are being made available for free public streaming today through Friday (Sept. 26-28). Live streaming of the keynotes is available according to a fixed schedule, but you can also watch them later via the conference’s video archive.

The Linux deployment tool m23 is now available for download in version m23 rock 11.4. In comparison to its predecessor, the new version offers support for Debian Squeeze to be installed on the client computers and Trinity Desktop Environment is now among the available desktops. Many more smaller changes and improvements have been made - go to the website for download and more information!

As businesses are forced to process more and more data, it's becoming more of a curse than a blessing, and that's why finding ways to make sense of that data is becoming big business.

Contrasting Stallman's philosophy to Steve Jobs work. "The biggest problem here isn’t so much how insensitive RMS may have been, but the underlying philosophy that he promotes. What he said makes perfect sense if you buy into his philosophy."

Ever since Ubuntu shipped its first long-term-support release, the 6.06 Dapper Drake (one of my all-time favorites by the way), the distro's LTS editions have enjoyed three years of support on the desktop and five years on the server. Now Canonical is extending desktop support for the upcoming 12.04 LTS (to be named Precise Pangolin) to a full five years on both the desktop and server, making the release that much more compelling for enterprise users and others (like myself) who might not necessarily stick with the release for the full five years but want the option of doing so.

This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.7 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig 2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).

The Linux Foundation announced today, October 26th, in a press release that it's hosting a new project made by its Consumer Electronics (CE) workgroup.

For those living in the North of Germany, here's a date to mark in your calendar: On 28th and 29th of October 2011, the ninth "Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage" will take place in Kiel. There will be talks, workshops and booths from OpenSource projects and enterprises. The complete program is available here. Dive into the Linux community and meet up with other OpenSource users!

Swayam Prakasha explores and explains one of the most important methodologies in modern software development…

In a world of Brussels sprouts (like) and eggplant (dislike), Larry the Free Software Guy celebrates the fact that we have a lot of choices in the FOSS realm. Fear not, Ubuntu users who view Unity as the digital equivalent of a plate of string beans -- you have a variety of more palatable desktop options with which to use Ubuntu 11.10.

Barry Kauler's Puppy Linux distribution has a new child, or better a pup, named Slacko and based on the Slackware Linux 13.37 operating system.

ARM is set to provide an in-depth look at its recently announced Cortex-A7 processor this week at a Santa Clara, Calif.-based event. Other highlights of ARM TechCon 2011, scheduled for Oct. 25 to 27, will include a keynote by ARM CTO Mike Muller, and a demonstration of a $25 ARM11-based Ubuntu Linux computer from Raspberry Pi....

Wikipedia : One of the most important web portal in geek’s life. Whenever I need to search anything I use two things. First open up the Google and then search for the related wikipedia page. Exploring wikipedia page using shell is possible. Interested fact is that we can do it without even opening the cli browser. We can make wikipedia text query over dns for an ip address. I learned this trick from Ajay Sharma (ajayctk@gmail.com). Thanks to him for teaching me this wonderful trick. Let’s explore how to do it

An user has posted on a Brazilian Ubuntu forum a link to a company called Yellowicon that has some cool Ubuntu icons in its portfolio. The page doesn't mention if these are the new official Ubuntu icons or not, but Canonical shows up on the Yellowicon clients list.

ZDNet writer David Gerwitz is so fed up with the way his co-located Linux server responded to an upgrade (by not running) that he's made a huge deal out of giving up Linux for Windows. On a server. Fellow ZDNet writer and Linux partisan Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols (aka SJVN) wonders what all the shouting is about.

For those that missed it, the openSUSE 12.1 Release Candidate arrived over the weekend...

Canonical will now be selling electronic books and magazines through the Ubuntu Software Center...

Last week the 2011 GNOME User Survey began, which is an independent survey that was devised by members of the GNOME community to collect feedback on their desktop platform. With the GNOME Foundation not interested in hosting the survey, these survey creators came to Phoronix to host the survey. Some of the initial GNOME comments were shared shortly after the survey went live. This survey will be running for one month, but there were already more than 8,000 submissions in the first few days. Here's the first 1,000 comments provided by participants of the GNOME survey.