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If you are interested in taking your first steps into web development Kompozer may be the tool for you. This powerful WYSIWYG web authoring platform is completely free and based on Gecko, the engine behind Mozilla.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the May 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

I actually don't know if William and Kate are Linux fans or not. Maybe they even have not heard about this great operation system. But let's imagine they are great Linux lovers. How can this change Royal Wedding ceremony?

While Firefox 4.0 is no faster than the Google Chrome web browser, 4.0 is certainly faster than Firefox(es) 3.5 and 3.6, all of which I've run extensively on both the Linux and Windows platforms.

Learning how to find the errors in your shell scripts is an important skill for successful shell scripting. The debug options in the Bash shell can help with that.

Intel may be poised to announce its 22nm "Ivy Bridge" Core processors on May 4, with improved, DirectX 11-capable graphics. Meanwhile, model numbers and power consumption details for the chipmaker's upcoming, 32nm "Cedar Trail" Atoms have been leaked by the AnandTech website.

So Midori is going full speed ahead, we support the new libSoup cache now (WebKitGTK+ 1.3.11 or greater required), private browsing has received a number of improvements and lastly some fixes with the User Agent now resolves typical issues with popular websites.

I didn't just upgrade my Mozilla-made mail program (call it Icedove if you wish, or Thunderbird) because I wanted a higher version number — or any other feature except for one.

Shipping in 3 flavors the Trim-Slice sports a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 A9 processor clocked at 1GHz, 1GB ram/mem, HDMI and lots more. And it ships with end-users' favorite operating system--Ubuntu 10.10 but supports others as well with the Trim-Splice being supported by the mainline kernel starting from 2.26.39. . .

burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS, including Linux/Windows/OSX/Solaris/FreeBSD, etc. It also has a highly configurable menu system which works in both text and graphic mode. In this post we will show you how to install Burg in Ubuntu 11.04 natty Narhwal.

The Nagios World Conference™ will be held on May 12th at Bolzano/Italy and is organized by wuerth-phoenix.

The agenda seem is interesting and there is the participation of namable speakers such as Nagios founder Ethan Galstad, Nagios Plugin coordinator Ton Voon or the NS Client creator Michael Medin. Moreover, there will be presentations of the new OTRS version and the interaction of OSS monitoring solutions such us Nagios with the integrated CMDB and the Change Management workflow engine.

Finally ntop's Luca Deri will take an introduction on application latency monitoring using nProbe via NetFlow.

Sandia National Laboratories is demonstrating its latest mini supercomputer at ESC Silicon Valley this week, incorporating 196 TI OMAP3530-based Overo Tide modules running Linux. Being used for botnet research as part of Sandia's MegaTux project, the StrongBox product combines 28 Gumstix Stagecoach boards, each with seven Gumstix Overo Tide computer modules....

German insurance company LVM has switched 10,000 laptop and desktop machines over to Ubuntu Linux with the help of Ubuntu creator Canonical (announcement). Some early reports on the net have hailed this as a victory for Linux, but it seems like the company was already a mixed shop of Windows and Linux machines with a long history of reliance on open source software.

Ubuntu is a popular Linux-based distro but, like everything in life, it isn't perfect. There's plenty that could be improved, both in terms of software and the way it goes about doing things. Here's what we think would improve it.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is released finally and it is getting some rave reviews from around the web. Eager to buy a laptop or a netbook pre-installed with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal? Here is a quick list of Ubuntu 11.04 pre-installed laptops and netbooks from prominent manufacturers.

While I tend to push back against the easy negative responses to each and every cloud disaster, when Amazon reported some customers experienced unrecoverable data loss last week after their outage, it got me thinking.

Recently there were benchmarks on Phoronix looking at the Ubuntu 11.04 boot performance relative to past Ubuntu Linux releases. This was done with five mobile systems and going back as far as Ubuntu 8.04. The tests showed around Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was where the boot performance in Ubuntu's been the best but Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 have slowed down a bit in how fast it's reaching the desktop. In this article we are looking at the boot performance when simply changing out the kernels. Every kernel from Linux 2.6.24 to 2.6.39-rc4 was analyzed.

As a general rule, programmers should never be allowed to name anything. The more competent the programmer, the more likely this is to be true.

I tried out the Fedora 15 Alpha. GNOME Shell wasn't working on my hardware for some reason. I also tried Ubuntu 11.04, and Unity does work. OpenBSD 4.9's release is imminent. Am I excited? No. I'm in user mode. Not fanboy mode. I'm in no mood to run alpha-level software, or the dot-0 release of a new desktop environment (as in GNOME Shell and/or Unity). I kind of, sort of, need Flash on occasion.

I've been using Linux Mint for exactly two years, and I've been loving 99.8% of it. I can only give it my highest recommendation.