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Kongoni is based on Slackware. There are not many Slackware-based Live distros (SLAX, Porteus and Nimblex - those I know). That makes each new review in this area very interesting for me. Also Kongoni claims to contain only Free Software Foundation approved software.

You might have read or heard people talking about custom ROMs they have installed on their Android devices. Here’s how to do it quickly and safely…

The last of the pre-releases of Mandriva Desktop 2011, Mandriva Desktop 2011 RC 2, was made available for download yesterday, just one day behind schedule. It, of course, looks better, runs better, than the previous pre-release, which I previewed here. As the title suggests, this article is not a full review, but a screenshot tour of the major features of what will be Mandriva Desktop 2011, due for final release on August 28, 2011.

Pentaho, which develops open source business intelligence software, continues to polish and enhance its partner program. And the latest financial results look pretty darn strong. Here’s the update.

Rest of world gets to shout into fruit around Xmas The next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Mango, is with device manufacturers and looks like it will hit Japanese shelves in September, with the rest of the world having to wait a little longer.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

Can't make it to OSCON this year?  You can still catch keynotes, interviews and news via live streaming video.   Check back right here during the conference July 25-29, 2011 to enjoy some great content virtually. Keynotes are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am Pacific.

Android Magazine is the world’s first monthly Android magazine and includes masses of Phone, Tablet and app reviews as well as essential tutorials for everyone from humble beginner to advanced hacker…

ITTIA has updated its lightweight, Linux-compatible SQL R-DBMS (relational database management system) with High Availability (HA) and replication features aimed at embedded applications. ITTIA DB SQL 4.1 has added support for two-phase commit, synchronous replication on commit, table snapshots, and distributed transactions, says the company....

Shells play an important role in Linux and Unix system. Everything that is happening on your distro is either because of the shell or the kernel. Moreover, a backend shell is initialized as soon as you made a login . There are lots of shells in the Unix and Linux system. Let’s try to know more about them : What is a shell ? Shell is the software installed on your system that works as command-line interpreter i.e. it takes the commands you type, interpret them and gives them to operating system (kernel) through system calls to execute. There are many different shells available to choose from in Linux.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: July 27, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that they are joining the Information Technology Certification Council's (ITCC: http://www.itcertcouncil.org/) "TechCertRegistry". This service is a first-of-its-kind Web-based credential registry for the IT industry and allows IT candidates, certification program managers and employers, to aggregate, validate and verify IT credentials from participating members.

man woman, No manual entry for woman. Oooh, I just know I'm going to hear it in the comments for that one. But you know what? Just how many of you have tried something similar with other words? You know you have at least once or twice. Go ahead, try one or two..you might be surprised. So why an article on man pages? Well, it's not just man pages, it's more like how to get information from Linux.

KDE 4.7 releases provide many new features and improved stability and performance.

Artila Electronics announced a Linux 2.6.38-ready 3.5-inch ARM9 industrial single board computer (SBC), notable for its support for up to 1280 x 860-pixel touchscreens. The M-505 is equipped with a 400MHz Atmel AT91SAM9G45 processor, 128MB of DDR2 SDRAM, 128MB NAND flash, plus Ethernet, USB, and serial I/O.

ITTIA DB SQL 4.1 has been released with advanced high availability functionality and enhanced replication features.

Pay-what-you want is a pricing system where buyers decide how much to pay for a commodity. One of the most notable examples of this pricing system being used was when Radiohead allowed fans to choose what price they paid for their album In Rainbows.

Eqonomize's approach to its GUI makes it more than a mere checking and savings account ledger. The drop-down menus, tool bar and action panel make a click-and-view style natural and efficient. Despite a few missing features, Equonomize takes the sweat and toil out of personal bookkeeping and banking tasks.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is speaking this year at LinuxCon on opening day about the challenges that still lie ahead as we embark on another 20 years of Linux. We wanted to know more about Whitehurst's perspective as we prepare for the big event and the formal celebration of the 20th anniversary of Linux. Here's what he told us.

Dell has announced its Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution at OSCON and open sourced Crowbar, its "cloud unboxer", as part of the announcement. Dell has been an OpenStack community member since it launched, and has been working with OpenStack's Infrastructure-as-a-service architecture to gain experience of the open source platform and understand customer needs.

Tutorial to learn how to test web interfaces using RobotFramework with Selenium. At Wallix we use RobotFramework to test our products AdminBastion and LogBox in a black box way mainly for exercising the web interface. In this blog post we’ll explain one way of using RobotFramework to test web interfaces either for web site testing or for web application testing.

Ironically, up until that time, Novell and Microsoft had been archenemies, and much of Novell’s market share loses had been due to Redmond’s aggressive marketing. At the time of the SUSE purchase, many in the FOSS community had high hopes that Novell would become an open source asset, even though they had shown a proclivity in the past for snatching defeat out of the arms of victory. All hopes were dashed, however, when they embraced their old enemy with a deal they had to know wouldn’t set well in the FOSS world.