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Recently one of our customers sent us marketing materials from one of our competitors. One thing that stuck out was the positioning that their version of a critical system component used in *NIX OpenSSH is better than the vendor-provided OpenSSH (from Red Hat, for example). As a former systems engineer responsible for many *NIX systems, this raises a red flag and here's why.

Forget Godot, we’re waiting for CentOS 6. If you hoped to have a shiny new CentOS release under the Christmas tree, you were disappointed. 2010 slipped by, still no release. Hoping to surprise your honey with CentOS 6 on Valentine’s Day? Maybe. If you’re lucky.

The new LibreOffice open-source office suite "proves that forking isn’t always the kiss of death," says this eWEEK review. New features in the Linux-ready release -- including wider document format support, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) import into Draw and Writer, enhanced presentation support, and an improved "save as" feature -- should give OpenOffice some robust competition.

Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle has announced on his blog that he, with the assistance of John Duimovich and Jason Gartner of IBM, Mike Milinkovich of Eclipse, Prof. Doug Lea of SUNY Oswego, and Adam Messinger of Oracle, has been drafting a set of OpenJDK community rules, or bye-laws, by which the community will operate. He says the draft document will soon be published for public comment.

MadBox is a relatively new Ubuntu-based Openbox distribution. It tries to cater to CrunchBang (“#!”) Linux users who want an Ubuntu-based Openbox distribution (as #! switched to a Debian base almost a year ago), as well as to users who want a fast and lightweight OS or one that will work on a slower computer without sacrificing polish.

Thousand and one bug fixes, that's what this release turned out to be. A long run of tweaks in various places rather than short and explosive releases. Some big moves concerning bookmarks, user add-ons & bug tracking.

GPS (Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.

Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this.

If you are unfamiliar with the HeliOS Project, I can tell you that Ken and Co. are doing a great thing — they get old computer systems, put Linux on them and then give the machines to kids who need them for school and to families in need of a working computer but unable to afford one. Ken contacted me about an event called "Rock a Charity." It sounds complicated (and Jeff Hoogland explains it better than I can), but the idea is that the three nominated groups that gets the most "likes" on Facebook between 7 a.m. PST Feb. 1 and 7 a.m. PST Feb. 3 will be eligible to get some much-needed funding from Austin's Rock A Charity.

Open source is very dedicated in sharing information, comparing and learning, then in this article i will recommend some readings of open books that you can download, read and if you want print freely.

Trying to come up with a list of the top ten open source projects is never an easy task - which is why I was interested in a new list put out today by OpenLogic. The OpenLogic list is ranked by which open source projects, their customers purchased support on. Shockingly, Linux did not make the top ten...

Future distributions will use a consistent, predictable scheme to name network interfaces, using names such as "em1" and "pci2#1" instead of "eth0" and "eth1" to provide more transparency for server administrators. As various new kernels have recently been introduced, the Kernel Log will provide an overview of the most important Stable and Longterm kernel series.

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of six new developer training courses dedicated to MeeGo and Google's open source Android operating system, both of which are based on Linux. Like Android, MeeGo is available for various mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets and netbooks – it came about as the result of the February 2010 decision to merge Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo platforms under the aegis of the Linux Foundation.

Despite earlier reports that very few if any new features would likely be seen in The Document Foundation's first LibreOffice release, the influx of new developers allowed much more work to be done. In fact, it was even released ahead of schedule. So, what kind of new goodies might one find?

Testing Gnome Shell just got a whole lot easier! There are now live CD Gnome Shell (Gnome 3) ISO files available for both Fedora and openSUSE - you don't have to install them, all you have to do is write the ISO files onto an USB stick or CD, boot and enjoy Gnome Shell.

Recent meetings held among major desktop Linux communities have resulted in an informal agreement regarding an architecture for a common app installer API. Developers from RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, and Mageia agreed to move forward on the architecture while a separate meeting between OpenSUSE and KDE went a step further, developing a mock-up for a universal GNU/Linux app-store....

...Do you use Linux? Have you ever heard of OpenOffice.org? If you answered “yes” to first question and “no” to second, you are really rare individual!...

Here are the notes on Installing node.js module for firebird and creating a simple http service derived from the module examples

Wineskin wrapper 2.0 RC2 along with WS6 engines are now up and available in Wineskin Winery 1.0 RC1 Multiple Monitors support coming soon.

Today, I installed Firefox 4 beta. My very first impression when the new browser opened was “How much like Chrome!” On exploring firefox_iconFirefox 4 beta I found the design and functionality has incredible likeness with Google’s browser Chrome. In this post we will deem at the new features of Firefox and comment on how they look alike Google Chrome.