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"I often tell people that setup, configuration, writing, scripting, and other general development of any website is better done on the same web server, or at least the same operating system, that is installed on the web server that the site is going to be hosted and ran on, rather than developed elsewhere and simply dropped in place later. It doesn't matter whether you're using Apache or Windows Server, GNU/Linux or Windows."

The US government has gone full bore into the Cloud as a way to cut its massive IT costs long-term. What's holding you back?

One of the design goals of Unity is to reduce the clutter of the desktop, another is to use space more efficiently. Based on this, Ubuntu user Andrea Azzarone came up with an idea/mockup to integrate (with autohide) the menu bar in the title bar for ummaximized windows:

Originally, we intended to create a single article on Linux-based audio applications. However, it soon became apparent that the sheer number of audio production apps would not permit this. So that we don't bore casual users with audio production jabber, this article is split in two: content consumption and content creation. Most end-users will be more interested in this article, while musicians and audio professionals should look to the next one for their Linux audio needs.

After 6 plus years of service, Red Hat is moving its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) into a bug and security fix maintenance phase. The move follows the release of RHEL 4.9 which is the last update of RHEL 4.x that will include new features and hardware support. According to Red Hat, RHEL 4.9 included 200 updates including an update version of SystemTap. RHEL 4 was first released back in 2005 and was the first version of RHEL to be released after Red Hat discontinued its Red Hat Linux line (which has since transitioned to become the community Fedora Linux distro). RHEL 4 also marked the debut of SELinux which has been significantly enhanced over the years to be both more usable and powerful to secure enterprises. RHEL 4 was also the first version RHEL to have the 2.6 Linux kernel.

The Linux Foundation announced an event intended to increase & systems level& collaboration among Android and Linux developers -- and perhaps patch up an ongoing rift with Google over kernel contributions. The Android Builders Summit, scheduled for April 13-14 in San Francisco, is now open for presentation submissions, the organization says....

CrunchBang Linux is a lightweight, minimalist Debian-derived Linux distro that lets you make the most of your old (or new hardware) and customise the user experience until you get it just right.

Disk manufacturers are putting a new spin on an old product: Solid State Drives. New technology, increased power costs, space limitation, and new business requirements are driving advances in storage. Solid State Drives (SSDs) are part of that new technological push toward more efficiency, increased agility, and higher demand.

After a commenter on my entry about the Ubuntu Natty alpha called me "pathetic" for expecting basic functionality from an alpha release, I decided to go deep and look at a pre-alpha for Fedora 15 in the form of a nightly build of the distribution that won't have its official alpha release for another 12 days, nor its final release as F15 until May 10 (a full 12 days after Ubuntu Natty's scheduled ). Despite this live image of what will become Fedora 15 being a nightly build of a pre-alpha, I found it surprisingly functional and fast on the desktop, if a little homely design-wise. But work, it does.

After some heady competition from its human rivals in the second exhibition round of Jeopardy, supercomputer "Watson" handily won round three, as well as the competition. Now the SUSE Linux-powered Watson is heading to medical school to prep for a role as a diagnostic assistant, while IBM readies a more context-sensitive successor dubbed "Racr".

Exaile is a very good music player alternative for Linux. Exaile is nimble and can handle large music collections without any problems. Exaile 0.3.2.1 was released a day ago. Exaile 0.3.2.1 is a bugfix release for version 0.3.2.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: February 17, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) with the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA: http://www.fossfa.net/) at the Youth Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Technopreneurship Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa on March 5, 2011 at 10 a.m. This exam lab is part of a larger "train-the-trainers" program, ict@innovation, jointly sponsored by FOSSFA and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ: http://www.giz.de) and is undertaken with the cooperation of LPI-South Africa.

A new Elementary OS video was posted a few days ago on YouTube, showing off some of the new applications: Slingshot and Plank as well as the already known Wingpanel (but which now is a full panel), Postler, Dexter or Midori:

Bleeding Edge is a Linux script designed for the popular Ubuntu operating system, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. It installs players, codecs, media players, fonts, drivers, etc. It also cleans up the system.

Plug computing seems to be a popular theme at the moment and for good reasons. The devices themselves are relatively cheap, and they provide a basic capability that everyone needs: access to files from multiple devices. Not only that, they now have the ability to stream your media to virtually anywhere and any device including your Android, Apple or Blackberry phones. That's not bad for a device that will set you back less than a hundred bucks.

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Squeeze server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

When Gnome Shell was first becoming available over a year ago, we took a look at it to see what the foundation was like, and to see what direction the Gnome desktop was likely to go. At the time, we liked it, though it was clearly a “rough draft” of what it could eventually become. Since then, time has gone by, and while Ubuntu may have decided to go with Unity instead, others have taken Gnome Shell up to the next level. Fedora, among others, will be putting it front and center in future releases. Today we’re going to take a look at one of the most recent builds available to see what this slick desktop environment has got to offer.

TeamViewer is an application for remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer between computers. Using the Android TeamViewer6 application you can easily access a computer at home or office, administer some server, reboot a computer and so on - all using your Android device.

Summary: This series of articles explores how to use Python to create scripts for the GNOME desktop, the screenlets framework, and Nautilus to deliver a highly productive environment. Scripts on the desktop enable drag-and-drop functionality and quick access to the information and services you commonly use. In this installment, learn how to use Python to add functionality to extend Nautilus on your desktop.

Here are two new Mac themes inspired icon themes for GNOME that demands your attention. Snow Sabre icon theme has a light and black variant and both of them looks very neat and simple while Uni icon theme for GNOME looks quiet good too. I think its time to give Faenza icon theme some rest, at least for the time being.