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As of today I find myself in the position of deciding whether or not to stick with my previously preferred distribution, Mandriva Linux. This is a bittersweet realization for me.

A while back I did a review on Bodhi Linux. There were some implications that I didn’t take a close enough look at the operating system, and I have to agree. So here’s a follow up to the original review on Bodhi Linux.

Ventrilo is a lightweight VOIP server used not only for voice communication, but it also acts as a chat room of sorts. It is extremely simply to install and configure. Used widely by gamers around the world Ventrilo allows conversations with multiple users with just the tap of a button. The advantage of the Ventrilo client over many other VOIP clients is that you can chat to anyone using your keyboard shortcut while other applications are running in the foreground.

The "FreeMat 4 Primer" is a PDF with 218 pages that offers a great introduction to FreeMat at the beginner level. The document’s authors are Gary Schafer and Timothy Cyders. It is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

When I started out looking for a new distribution to install on my new laptop, I never thought I would wind up running Lubuntu. But after trying a few distributions over the course of a weekend, Lubuntu actually emerged the clear winner for me. This article details that exploration.

The regular expression, or regexp, are the most powerful, versatile and hated tool used by programmers and system administrators.

They allow to express with a few characters search for strings, characters or words, and if done well can lead to good results, but if they are wrong they can not give you any useful result, and the worst thing is that often it is difficult to understand whether or not a regepx it is written with a correct syntax to cover all the possibility.

The continuing rise in the popularity of social networking has been meteoric by any standards and there are no signs of this abating. One of the most popular social networking services is Twitter. Twelve months ago there were about 65 million messages (known as tweets) being made each day. Now this figure has risen to over 200 milion tweets a day, contributed by 200 million users. Twitter has radically altered the way many people communicate with each other.

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1 has been released bringing in revamped Unity interface, improved indicators, hidden window controls and many other features. Just before beta was released many packages were updated fixing lots of bugs bringing in the required polish. Dash categories which were not working were fixed and memory leaks were taken care of making it a lot faster. Dash also got copy/paste support and dragging applications on to the launcher is also fully working now.

Two days ago, Google announced that now, using Chrome, you can use Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs while off-line. This is something specially good for Chromebooks, now they are not just new toys, they can be real productive tools.

As a huge fan of Linux for more than a decade, I've witnessed a lot of drama in the community surrounding the operating system, with much of the polemic focused on the desktop. Sometimes the wrangles have just consisted of arguments over the relative merits of alternative desktops but the kerfuffle has recently grown much worse and centres on Ubuntu's Unity desktop. However, all is not lost. The Linux community has proven again and again over the years that it is incredibly agile, so this issue can easily be resolved. Here are 10 possible solutions.

Google launched its Chrome Web browser on September 1, 2008—three years ago today. In the time since its debut, Google's Web browser has attracted a considerable following and influenced other browser vendors. To celebrate the anniversary, Google has published an interactive HTML5 infographic that presents the history of the major Web browsers and Web standards.

Usually when we discuss the ways to clean up your Ubuntu system, it will always involve command lines like “autoremove“, “autoclean“, “clean” etc. For those who are not used to the command line, an alternative is to use GUI software to get the things done. One such software is 2ClickUpdate, which we have reviewed earlier. Another such software is Mechanig, which we are discussing today

Things are not what they once were for Adobe. There was a time when Flash’s hegemony on the Web was virtually unchallenged. It was also once common to hear people refer to PDF documents as “Adobe files,” signaling the ubiquity of Adobe Reader. Now, times have changed.

Tablets have caught the interest of browser maker Mozilla, which is polishing up a new version of its Firefox browser for Android tablets. Previews show a tablet browser with many elements that will be familiar to users of the company's desktop version. However, users generally don't yet seem to be as choosy about the browsers on their mobile devices as they are about the browsers on their desktops.

Ever had a Web project in mind, but got stalled at the prospect of having to worry about the site design? If code, and not design, is your strong point you'll want to take a look at Twitter's Bootstrap. This weekend, you can prettify an existing Web site or start a Web project you've been putting off with a full design toolkit. Like many folks in the Linux community, I've been creating Web sites since the 90s. My first site was hosted in the generous 10MB of space granted by my ISP in Kirksville, Missouri. It consisted of a tribute to Charles Bukowski, and was as homely a site as you've ever seen. Well, it was better than pages on MySpace, but it wasn't terribly pretty.

On a recent visit back to the UK, lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison met up with Richard Hillesley. Here, Richard Allison's description of the history of his involvement with open source, Linux and Samba.

I’ve been working on a story all week on the mess at HP caused by the all-at-once and probably premature announcement they’re dropping WebOS, smartphones and consumer PCs. One trouble, I keep having to go back and rewrite stuff, because the story is still very, very fluid and new aspects keep popping up almost daily. On Monday, Bloomberg Businessweek announced that HP’s chief communications officer, Bill Wohl, will be moving to a “special assignment.” Chief Marketing Officer Marty Homlish will be picking up the slack with the corporate communications team and Lynn Anderson will take care of PR’s day-to-day operations, at least for the time being. According to the Bloomberg, both Wohl and Homlish have a history with CEO Leo Apotheker that predates his tenure at HP:

Remember Gnome2 Global Menu? It's an applet that adds a global menu (the menu is displayed on the top panel) for Gnome 2 that wasn't very active for a long time because Ubuntu built its own global menu. But it's back!

The Canonical-backed Ubuntu project released the first beta of Ubuntu 11.10 (& Oneiric Ocelot& ), featuring both an improved Dash interface for the Unity desktop and a makeover for the Ubuntu Software Center that resembles the Mac App Store. Ubuntu 11.10 moves up to Linux 3.0.3, the Firefox 7.0 browser, and a Thunderbird 7.0 beta email client, among other changes.

Dan Paoletti, Interim CEO at Ohio Health Information Partnership, and Vice President, Data Services, The Ohio Hospital Association, will be speaking at Ohio LinuxFest on September 9 at 3pm at the Gr4eater Columbus Convention Center. His talk will be titled "The Vision: By 2015 the Spotlight is on Ohio for the Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology."