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While I was away for three weeks, there was an update on LP bug #760131, the infamous bug report on the power consumption being raised significantly higher in Ubuntu Natty. This bug report of high importance now indicates a fix being committed to Natty and a fix being released for Oneiric, but what has changed? Here is an update.

So today I resigned my membership in the Free Software Foundation, so I am no longer Member No. 5030. I did so because Richard Stallman no longer speaks for me after making a completely ludicrous, tactless and heartless remark regarding the passing of Steve Jobs.

One thing that has been holding me back from switching from Firefox to Google Chrome has been the lack of an FTP client. I’ve been quite fond of FireFTP for a while now. Well, my wait seems to be over.

This week, we look at IT as Dante's Inferno, why innovation is wired in developer's brains and the most likely IT jobs to survive the next decade.

Welcome to the 168th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

LibreOffice was a dive into the unknown, and an opportunity to prove what the community already knew: that a chance to swim free could only bring positive results

As a free software, open standards kind of guy, I believe in having the ability to choose what I want to run and how I want to run it. I believe in being able to select what to run on my computers. I believe in open standards and a level playing field for business large and small. I believe that vendor lock-in hurts consumers and stifles innovation.

Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 is shaping up to be a fantabulous release from the server team! Get to know all the hot new features landing in Oneiric server, as well as the people behind them! This time I'm interviewing Robbie the Ubuntu server team manager, who gives a high level overview of 11.10 features, as well as future cloud and server directions

Unlike Windows, Ubuntu has a very unusual directory structure. Everything in Ubuntu is stored under directories and there are no partitions. Users who are new to Ubuntu may find it mind-numbing or confusing to locate their information within the complex structure of directories. Here, in this article, we try to explain the Ubuntu directory structure and dig into each commonly used directories.

Unwilling to wait for Fedora 16 final to come out, I went ahead and installed Fedora 16 beta. So much has been fixed in Fedora 16 that was wrong in Fedora 15 I can hardly see why this is called a beta. However, there are a few things I’ve noticed that go awry with Fedora 16 that will hopefully be fixed by the time the final release comes out.

Jon Parshall the COO at CodeWeavers posted a video of Alexandre Julliard's Wineconf 2011 keynote.

Canonical's CEO, Jane Silber, proudly announced last evening (October 6th) at the OpenStack Conference in Boston, USA, that HP has chosen the popular Ubuntu operating system to power their Public Cloud.

The phpMyAdmin package from the Debian/Ubuntu repositories comes with configuration files for Apache and Lighttpd, but not for nginx. This tutorial shows how you can use the Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 phpMyAdmin package in an nginx vhost. Nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

How to install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

Both Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and proprietary software require some financial investment, but there are definite advantages of choosing FOSS.

CPAN, the Central Perl Archiving Network, is the Holy Grail of pre-packaged Perl scripts in module form. Before you tackle any coding project, check CPAN first, as it may save you tons of time and a huge headache. For instance, if you want to code a quick and dirty Perl script to automate a web user’s clicks for site validation, you can do it with a couple of CPAN modules.

Judging from the comments we have received in response to A Simpler Explanation of Why Software Is Mathematics, there seems to be a category of readers who just can't bring themselves to believe that software could possibly be mathematics.

Snort, the open source intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS), can be a fabulous tool to protect your network from attack – if it’s set up correctly. If it’s not, it can cause network traffic and performance problems. Here’s a rundown of how to use Snort’s built-in profiling tools to tune your setup and improve Snort’s performance.

The internet's authoritative source for time-zone data has been shut down after the volunteer programmer who maintained it was sued for copyright infringement by a maker of astrology software.

Marlin, the new file browser developed by ammonkey (who's also behind Nautilus elementary) for elementary OS, got two new plugins for Dropbox and Ubuntu One.