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Karanbir Singh proudly announced last evening, September 13th, the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 5.7 Linux operating system.

Setting up a redundant mail relay is really simple, but what about a redundant mailstore? Learn how to use DRBD and GFS to mirror a filesystem across two servers, on Ubuntu.

Dragora GNU/Linux is Argentina-based distribution, started in 2007 by Matias A. Fonzo, a Linux enthusiast, along with just a few contributors. It is one of the few Linux distributions comprised of 100% Free/Libre Software, and endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. If you expect bells and whistles, think again, it's a distribution that focuses on simplicity, one application per task and it's aimed at people who want to learn about how a Linux system works. If this scares you, there's no need, we installed Dragora GNU/Linux 2.1 64-bit, tinkered with it, liked it, so we'll be able to get you started.

This is a nice script that will allow you to install Nvidia driver in Debian Squeeze the easy way

Traditional desktop computing has failed. It failed partly because we couldn’t handle the great power and great responsibility of a full-blown operating system. Help is here and there’s an app for that.

Fedora Fans! Here’s a chance to choose the codename of upcoming release Fedora 17. Suggesting names beginning September 13th on Fedora wiki page. Suggested names must meets the guidelines for Fedora release names to prevent eliminations.

I was asked to look into this problem where the admins wanted to have access to their Tomcat web application, without specifying the port number, or the application name. That is, visiting http://www.myecampus.info should open the application in Tomcat, and not serve Apache's home page. At the same time, they needed access to applications running on Apache itself, such as phpMyAdmin, which cannot be ported to Tomcat.

This week we interviewed Izzat Sabbagh Rodríguez, leader of the Capaware project, a multipurpose 3D virtual world development framework, sponsored and used by the government of the Canary Islands (Spain) and local companies. Enjoy the interview!

First, a disclaimer: the program Sickbeard was created for the purpose of pirating television shows from Usenet and torrent sites. I don't condone piracy of any sort, but Sickbeard has some amazing other features that make it worth mentioning.

Those of us that do real work on our computers know the value of having a physical keyboard. At the same time some of us have use for a touch screen, but don't want to carry two physical devices.

Enter the tablet/netbook hybrid.

To keep up with industrial automation standards and the increasing demands of their customers, leading global solutions provider Wasserbauer selected ITTIA DB SQL.

Would you like to touch my operating system? BUILD Steven Sinofsky has touted Windows 8 as one Microsoft's most significant redesigns since the arrival of Windows 95 more than 15 years ago.…

From thefedora 'Where's Beefy Miracle?' files:

It's that time of year again - when the Fedora community is asked to come up with the name of an upcoming Fedora release. This time it's Fedora 17, which won't be out until 2012.

Fedora 16 is currently set for release on November 1st and has the codename Verne.

The way that the Fedora naming system works is that there is supposed to be some kind of connection in name to the previous release. The Fedora 15 release was codenamed Lovelock.

From the 'So Say We All' files: I'm a huge fan of The Linux Foundation. It has had an incredibly positive impact on the Linux landscape. It is a unique vendor neutral organization that is an essential and integral part of Linux. The Linux Foundation this week was hit by a security breach that has taken its sites including LinuxFoundation.org and Linux.com offline. Yes, I really feel for the Linux Foundation, I know from experience that dealing with security breaches is a time consuming and involving process. Forensic analysis of logs and events is a challenging thing to do, especially when it's not entirely clear what your looking for.

The WCM market today is a march to democratization of web communication. The rise of social business, online collaboration, cloud and SaaS applications could never have occurred at the rapid pace we see today without the open source WCM and web infrastructure tools that power so much of the Internet.

It's time for Fedora contributors to go crazy again... a.k.a. Red Hat is looking for codename proposals for Fedora 17, which will be their first community Linux release in 2012 to succeed the soon-to-be-released Fedora 16. Here's some of the names that have been proposed thus far...

This article is about why LibreOffice is one of the finest things in open source, and a great software to use for those looking to fulfill basic needs with an office suite.

The model that works for open-source projects might not work in the enterprise — or is that a false dichotomy?

I've been covering various scientific programs the past few months, but sometimes it's hard to find a package that does what you need. In those cases, you need to go ahead and write your own code. When you are involved with heavy-duty scientific computing, you usually need to go to parallel computing in order to get the runtimes down to something reasonable. more>>

Something that has always annoyed me about a good deal of netbooks is the fact that someone decided that 1024x600 was an acceptable maximum resolution. While this isn't always an issue, it becomes extra annoying when you attach an external display to your tiny computer. By default your are typically forced into one of two choices...