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Zentyal, formerly known as eBox Platform, is a multi-purpose Linux Ubuntu remastered and it’s based on Ubuntu server 10.04 (LTS). It can function as a network gateway, unified threat manager, office server, infrastructure manager, and a unified communications server. The project’s source code is available under terms of the GNU General Public License. The declared goal of this software it’s to be an alternative for small and medium business to Windows.

Don’t believe the naysayer’s hype about Python! With increasing popularity among Linux communities and used by major corporations such as Google, Python is here to stay! Some sceptics have published articles and blogs over the last few years that have doubted the future of Python. However, Python has been around since 1991 and the growth in popularity of this stable and comprehensive high level programming language, especially in the Linux user domain, would indicate that it is here to stay.

Just 16 months after announcing the acquisition of Palm, HP has said today that it will “discontinue operations for webOS devices,” saying that the units (presumably the TouchPad, Pre series, and Veer) have “not met internal milestones and financial targets.”

Evidently this move comes because company execs see a need for HP to reinvent itself as a services and software company, much the way that IBM did when they spun their consumer PC business off to Lenovo a few years back. In hindsight, this shouldn’t be entirely a surprise, as Apotheker was chosen as CEO last August partly because of his software experience with SAP, where he had an eight year history, two as CEO.

With the 2011 Google Summer of Code, we now know how the Gallium3D OpenCL state tracker and morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA) turned out, but how did the remote display capabilities for the Wayland Display Server evolve over the summer? It's something that hasn't yet been reported about on Phoronix...

Younger, prettier sister still not allowed out in public Owners of the latest Nokia phones can now update to Symbian Anna, assuming their operators permit it, but having caught a glimpse of her younger sister they might not be impressed.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

Gosh, how the time flies when you’re having fun! Here it is, Thursday again, time for another Top Ten list. By now, we fully expected that we’d have heard from David Letterman or his lawyers about this, but we’re beginning to suspect he doesn’t even know we’re here. Just in case, however, we’re keeping all of our legal answers ready.

The Icedove (aka Thunderbird) mail client is back in the Debian Mozilla team APT archive. Mozilla.debian.net used to be the place to get a newer version of the Mozilla mail application for Debian, but Icedove disappeared from the archive for awhile when version 3.1 moved into Debian Backports proper.

'Let's all pick one kernel and stick with it for a bit' Plans are afoot to establish a long-term support system for new versions of the Linux kernel to help slide the penguin into more smartphones.…

One of the best features of Gnome 3 are the dynamic workspaces. Using some simple keyboard shortcuts, it is possible to assign an application to a workspace and quickly switch between them. If you run a standard set of applications, this process makes switching between them very efficient. The problem with running applications in their own workspace is that you have to spend some time once Gnome 3 has booted moving the applications to their proper workspaces. However, using a tool called devilspie, it is possible to setup a script that will automatically rearrange your windows for you.

In spite of tablet competitors best efforts, consumers only have eyes for iPad -- and if you're a developer or IT pro, you should be paying attention.

At the request of our readers, the following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to install the Linux kernel 3.0 packages on their Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system.

The latest discussions on desktop technologies are now never complete, without reference to the devolution of desktops. Today these behemoths of lore are fast-becoming devices of the past as newer technologies power faster, more sophisticated form factors for computation.

A new Android based operating system is developed, with a complete new graphical user interface, called GridOS.

While patent wars rage in battles involving Google, Apple, Microsoft and others over proprietary technology, Linux celebrates its 20th anniversary as a model of open source collaboration and driving innovation.

I’ve been working in this industry for a while now and naturally spend a lot of time using Linux on a daily basis. This gives lots of exposure to various Linux commands and tools. That said, I am sometimes surprised when I see, often very experienced system administrators, using somewhat convoluted commands to do something relatively simple using a different tool.

Could this be the first truly viable Linux-based PC gaming OS? Russell Barnes takes Game Drift for a spin…

This week we interviewed three members of the SciRuby team (a collection of tools for scientific computation written in the Ruby language): John Woods, John Prince and Claudio Bustos.

Standardized way to look at open source license compliance is released.

A lot of people hate Canonical's Unity desktop, but a lot of people also hate the current state of the GNOME 3.0 Shell too. For those that are still fond of the GNOME 2.x environment, there is a fork of GNOME2 that's been little talked about up to this point. This fork is called the Mate Desktop Environment...