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Dear Ubuntu users, the time has come to say goodbye to the Server Edition of the first LTS (Long Term Support) release of the popular Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), as on June 1st it will reach end of life.

The beta version of Fedora15 now features Gnome shell and Gnome3, LibreOffice instead of legacy OpenOffice, BoxGrinder for virtualization, dynamic firewall mode for changing the firewall settings without the need of restarting the operating environment, and many more version updates to a large number of packages. Simultaneously, Xfce and LXDE versions of Fedora have been updated to reflect the mainstream updates and enhancements.

I'm having trouble viewing Hulu on 64-bit Linux Mint, but my computer has 4 GB of RAM. Should I switch to 32-bit PAE or stick with 64-bit?

The words "sharing" and "collaboration" don't exist in the lexicon of your typical for-profit corporation. Josselin Mouette was at the Gnome Asia Summit to show how free software can favourably tip the balance sheets. Josselin, the Gnome maintainer in Debian, also talks about CUT, the new addition to the Debian family of repositories.

The Fedora Project, through Dennis Gilmore, proudly announced yesterday (April 19th) the immediate availability for testing of the Beta version of the upcoming Fedora 15 operating system, due for release at the end of May 2011.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server release is nearing the end of its support life; Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager summarize what this milestone release meant to the Ubuntu project and community.

After five years, a new stable release of FVWM has finally been announced. FVWM is a lightweight and fast window manager still used by a few distributions and offered as an option on several. This landmark release brings several new and improved features.

Open Invention Network (OIN) announced a 28 percent increase in membership in its open source patent protection licensing service since the beginning of the year, bringing the total to 334 corporate supporters. The 74 new organizations covered under OIN?s royalty-free license include Hewlett-Packard and Facebook, as well as smaller Linux-focused entities such as Clonezilla and Mandriva.

VMware introduced an open Platform as a Service (PaaS) called Cloud Foundry last week, that has to be intriguing to any IT pro reluctant to go with a choice like Microsoft Azure and risk vendor lock-in. But it's also brand new and in Beta and as such still has to prove itself.

The folks over at CodeWeavers have given us two new dealcodes. :) A dealcode is coupon code that can be used in their online store.

The Apache Software Foundation's official conference, ApacheCon North America 2011, will take place in November in Vancouver, Canada this year. The conference's Call for Papers is still open until Friday, April 29th 2011.

I've previously tested alsa code that allows for audio playback without causing IRQs in combination with the (less new) pulseaudio code that allows for almost CPU-wake-less playback. A bit more tuning allowed to increase the power savings to 0.4 W. Check inside for the whole updated story with full powertop logs!

Devised by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, the pomodoro technique gathered many followers. The popularity of this time management method lies in its simplicity: work on a single task for 25 minutes and then take a 5-minute break. After four 25-minute sessions, take a 15-minute break. Not exactly rocket science.

Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' will be released in another 8 days or so. We have followed the development of Ubuntu 11.04 very closely. In fact, we have reviewed all the previous developmental releases of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal so far including Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Alpha 3 and Beta 1 releases. In my opinion, the overall Ubuntu 11.04 experience is so much better and involving if you know some essential Ubuntu Unity keyboard and Mouse shortcuts. So here are a bunch of very basic yet useful Ubuntu 11.04(Unity) keyboard shortcuts.

In my previous article i've show you Knockd, i've received soem comments regarding the fact that this is NOT at all a good way to secure your server. Well, in my opinion knockd it’s a layer of security, perhaps thin but still can save you from some brute force script and so it adds a bit of security to your solution, in this article i’ll show you fail2ban that add another layer of security to our network services.

This week's Linux Top 5: SCO gets new ownership, Oracle call its quits on OpenOffice as Novell releases last major update for SLES 10, and more.

Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced a couple of days ago, April 18th, the immediate availability for testing of the second and last Beta version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system. This version is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures (see download link at the end of the article).

Smartphones? Not until next year Intel's president and chief executive Paul Otellini says his company is hard at work porting Google's tablet-specific Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, to the x86 architecture.…

This tutorial is based on a LAN setup, but it should also be applicable for an Internet seedbox (e.g. on a vps or rootds), but some additional steps may need to be performed (firewall, securing rpc-mount, generally hardening of the server). The best lightweight software combination for a seedbox is lighttpd with rtorrent/libtorrent and a nifty web interface. So we use avalanche-rt, an actively developed project which looks very promising.

The Fedora Project announced the beta release of its Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Linux distribution, featuring the new GNOME 3 desktop, the Systemd initialization system, and a new dynamic firewall feature. Meanwhile, though, GNOME 3 has received mixed reviews from the GNOME faithful, many claiming the project went too far in simplifying the interface....