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At work, I always have a browser tab open for each of our two Nagios instances. At home, I used to check them from time to time. When out and about, I used to check my mail every time I got an email because I wanted to make sure it wasn't Nagios complaining about something. Now that I've installed aNag on my Android phone and have special alert sounds set up in it I've become a happier admin!

There is a fresh mint(ed) flavor on LinuxMint now. In the last one month, it has scaled the distro charts and is now the number one distro for opensource users. Distrowatch, the unofficial platform for all Linux distros, shows that LinuxMint has been has had the maximum number of hits in the past few weeks to become the most popular distros today.

SuperX v1 "Galileo" is now available! SuperX is a new desktop-oriented computer operating system based on Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux, using the KDE desktop environment. It was originally developed in India by a teenager who built it using free and open-source software. SuperX is highly modular, flexible and cloud-centric, with a desktop user interface especially designed with Linux beginners in mind. SuperX v1 Screenshots

Adobe is stopping development of Flash Player for browsers on the mobile platform, ZD Net reports. From now, the company will be focusing its efforts on HTML5 and mobile apps.

This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 15 system to Fedora 16. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

Stock kernel for Oneiric (3.0.X.Y) has the same Xen configuration as 3.1. In meantime I had to pass through procedure bellow with intend to benefit from PV-on-HVM feature providing by Xen 4.1.X Hypervisor and properly built 3.0 or 3.1 linux kernel. I follow [1] step by step updating config.flavour.pvhvm as required to perform kernel rebuild.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on a good-will tour of Asia trying to assure his Android partners that Android will continue to stay open in spite of Google's Motorola Mobility purchase, but it sounds as empty as any politician's promises I've ever heard.

Here's the thought (and action) process I went through to edit a video today with OpenShot 1.4.0 in Debian Squeeze (I've been using the OpenShot .deb package from the OpenShot Launchpad page to make sure I have the latest version). I used the audio and video from one long clip interspersed with titles created in OpenShot and still images from the same event. The "trick" was keeping the audio and video in sync, with the audio playing continuously, while I traded off the images with the video.

The book retailer claims also that the fees Microsoft was demanding were equal to or greater than those it demanded for an entire operating system, Windows Phone, even though the patents covered only "trivial and non-essential design elements" of the Android user interface. It also noted that there is only one patent common to the the five patents it is being sued over and the six that Microsoft was offering to license.

A few minutes ago, November 9th, The Document Foundation company proudly announced the fourth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.4 open source office suite software for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, bringing several bugfixes.

Fedora 16 also includes the open source OpenStack cloud platform, which some industry pundits have seen as being a competitive technology to Fedora's Red Hat sponsor. Smith noted that in the case of Fedora, OpenStack is not a competitor with Aeolus.

"Aeolous and Open Stack are not competitive at all," Smith said.

What’s your next desktop OS or desktop manager going to look like? Have you been sucked into the dumbed-down, new-fangled garbage floating your way or are you going retro?

Getting down to the meat of the issue. After lots of considerations I finally got myself an android tablet. The device I choose is the Galaxy tab 8.9. I have used the device for close to a week and here are my thoughts about it, android honeycomb and tablets generally.

Fedora Utils is a "post installation" script for Fedora which lets you easily install applications that are not available in the main Fedora repositories and tweak various settings.

Red Hat and the Fedora Project community this morning have officially announced the release of Fedora 16. This release, which is codenamed "Verne", offers up a significant number of original improvements in the Linux desktop and server space...

SelekTOR for Linux allows you to watch online content provided by UK TV companies from anywhere in the world, so for those travellers that have paid their license fee and suddenly find they can’t get the latest depressing episode of Eastenders from their hotel room and the dodgy salacious channels provided by the hotel are not covered by business expenses, then this is for you.

It's not official! Firefox 8.0 and Thunderbird 8.0 were made available for download a few minutes ago, for all supported platforms.

It would be too easy, at this point, to deride Microsoft for their efforts. Certainly, there will be some who will scoff and point to the fact that Redmond is only acting to serve their own interests. However, there’s nothing wrong with serving one’s own interest. The way I figure it, we can’t call Microsoft to task when they do things such as stealing copyrighted code and invoking the DMCA over reverse engineering Skype, then not give them a pat on the head and a “good boy” when they make a valuable contribution to a free software project. Deriding Redmond here would only give them the opportunity to spew more FUD along the lines of “you can’t win with those fanatics.” It would also do nothing to encourage them to move in a direction that would be beneficial to all of us. When a dog is good, you throw him a bone, even if he’s usually a mean and vicious junkyard dog.

If you like music as much as me you may find yourself taking time pondering to yourself what would be the best way of creating lossy backups of your CD collection?. This article will discuss standard audio codecs and briefly cover common conversion tools available to *NIX Operating Systems. Article written for Debian & Ubuntu, Fedora, and ArchLinux.

* Adobe is Stopping development on Flash Player for browsers on mobile.

Adobe is now focusing their development efforts on:

* Applications for mobile * Expressive content on the desktop (in and out of browser) * Increasing their investments in HTML5 in general