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Cedric Bosdonnat has been tracking contributions to LibreOffice since its announced fork from OpenOffice.org. He uses Git Data Miner to gleen results from the main branch of LibreOffice Git repositories. Git Data Miner is more commonly known as the tool used by Jonathan Corbet in his periodic kernel code reports.

An update to the Ubuntu 11.04 installer (Ubiquity) finally brings upgrade support to the Ubuntu Live CD. That means that for instance if you use Ubuntu 10.10, when you'll boot the Ubuntu 11.04 Live CD you'll have an option to upgrade (without losing your documents and installed applications).

Often, we forget how things came to be the way that they are. In our case, this means we may forget the origins of computing. I am going to take some time to go through our origins step by step.

Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced on the last day of February the immediate availability for testing of the second Alpha version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Debian Squeeze server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Looking for the best web experience on your Android device? We look at some of the Android browsers available.

You can do a lot of think through ssh, you can play music, you can execute remote commands, you can mount disks, and a long etc. Here you will find some of my favorite tips.

IPTState is a top-like interface to your netfilter connection-tracking table. Using iptstate you interactively watch where traffic crossing your netfilter/iptables firewall is going, sort by various criteria, limit the view by various criteria. But it doesn’t stop there: as of version 2.2.0 you can even delete states from the table!

The Ubuntu development community is racing ahead with Unity, including creating a 2-D Unity variant which will work under VirtualBox, which I must use since I don't have a spare system upon which to install Ubuntu Natty Narwhal for testing. When you get the login screen you will see the option for Unity 2D. Select it, log in.... And Behold! Unity! (insert angelic choral wha-aaaah here)

opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.5 offers a unique open source ERP + CRM solution that can be deployed easily in the cloud on the Amazon EC2 platform. This combination offers ease of deployment, low cost, and flexibility to businesses worldwide, from small startups to midsize manufacturers to Fortune 500 companies.

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

At last here are the final two parts of this series. Today we learn how to tell rsync which files to include or exclude, set up passwordless login on the backup server, and safely test everything. Tomorrow we put it all together and completely automate wakeup, backup, and shutdown.

Audacity is a free, open source, cross-platform sound recorder and editor program that allows you to perform simple and advanced sound recording and editing tasks. If you’re into recording, sound effects, mixing, or editing, Audacity takes you there and beyond. Audacity offers a huge (and growing) list of features found in expensive and proprietary sound software. Can you imagine the audacity of developers who would create and maintain software of this caliber? Alas, that is but one of free software’s primary pillars.

In the Behind KDE Platforms series, Pau Garcia i Quiles talks about Qt on Android with Bogdan Vatra, the lead developer behind it.

You want a kerfuffle? Here it is. Canonical makes "affiliate" revenue from sales via its Ubuntu One music store, which works through the Rhythmbox music player/manager. Now that Ubuntu is changing to Banshee as its default music-management application — and Banshee happens to have a plugin for the Amazon music store, things have gotten a little messy.

Linux Mint 10 KDE comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. This edition comes with the latest and recently released KDE 4.6! The Software Manager gives you a nicer browsing experience. View the Linux Mint 10 KDE Screenshot Tour

I use rsync a lot specially to backup my important files between two computers, but also to keep my local slackware repository up to date. rsync is great to keep folders and files synchronized between two computers or in the same computer, you can backup all your important data to an external disk using rsync.

A full review of Frugalware 1.4 Nexon, including a gallery of images. I’ve gotten a fair number of requests to look at Frugalware in the past so I decided to take a peek at Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon). Frugalware has always had a reputation for not being very accessible to newer Linux users or those who simply wanted an easy to use desktop version of Linux.

One of my favorite quotes is - Nothing is ever free. I believe this statement to be true for a number of reasons. The important thing to recognize is that I believe the "free" in this quote and the "free" in FOSS are two different types of "free"...

In last month's Ask the Experts column, we talked to insiders about how to get paid to work on Linux. The experts replied with a variety of useful tips but one piece of advice was common among all of their comments: get involved in the community. So, this month we've reached out to another group of experts to learn what exactly are the best ways to contribute and/or participate in the Linux and open source software communities.