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For open source web developers, here is an advanced new kid on the bloc, the Dragonfly debugger, the beta of which was recently launched by Opera. Opera is one of the top three web browsers and is differently-abled from the regular browsers. However, Dragonfly is a first for Opera in more than one sense. They are offering it as an open source much to the delight of Opera admirers.

Does this sound familiar to you? You have taken the plunge and install Ubuntu on your computer. The next moment, you have no idea what to do next and where to head. Now, before any doubt creeps in and you are wondering if you have make the right choice leaving the comfort zone (Windows or Mac) and venture into the unknown ground, let us show you what you can, and should do after installing Ubuntu

Recent reports of the large savings, in the realms of billions of euros per year, that could be made in Dutch government by switching to open source and open standards have been sharply contradicted by the publication of the official report of the Dutch General Audit Chamber (GAC) investigation into cost savings that could be made.

Are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS just alphabet soup to you? Read this Cloud primer to get the low down on the different cloud types and how they can help your organization.

CodeWeavers has released CrossOver Games 10.1.0 for Linux and Mac. This release fixes many known issues with supported games and adds Rift to the list of games that now run with CrossOver Games. This release has also seen allot of fixes to cross tie support, RAR files are now fully supported.

Starting with GTK+ 3.0, we’re replacing the old theming layer with a more modern one. Designers will find it more powerful and immediate, and it’s more intuitive for the masses. This new theming layer has been developed in a GTK+ repository, but is available in master now, and brings in features that are starting to be a must in modern toolkits.

Artila Electronics announced an ARM9-based, Linux-ready industrial box computer with dual, isolated CAN bus interfaces, plus the SocketCAN open source CAN stack. The Matrix-522 is equipped with an Atmel AT91SAM9G20 processor clocked at 400MHz, and offers 64MB SDRAM, 128MB of flash, a microSD slot, failover support, an under three-Watt power draw, plus paired sets of Ethernet, USB, and serial ports.

Gtk+ 3.2 will let you run any application in a browser thanks to the new HTML5 gdk backend. That means you'll be able to run GIMP, Gedit, a video editor or whatever, remotely (or on the same computer), using a web browser.

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application for Windows, Mac and Linux. Important functionalities include library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion and even e-book reader synchronization features.

Rock Computing (a computer repair and open source software development company) releases a developer preview of it's debut software project.

Osmo is a handy personal organizer application for Linux. Feature list includes calendar, tasks manager, address book and notes modules. Osmo is comprehensive in its set of functionalities yet very easy to use and configure. In many ways, Osmo is as good or even better than Getting Things GNOME personal organizer application in my opinion.

Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced last evening, March 16th, the immediate availability for testing of the first Beta version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system.

LXer Feature: 17-Mar-2011

Yes, life really is a cartoon, and it is impossible to be too cynical. Nevertheless good things happen and life is good.

The last few days I spent fixing up some more details in the new HTML5 gdk backend. Not everything is supported yet (keyboard input in particular is very weak), but much more things work now. Even thought the backend is not of production quality it is now good enough that I think its interesting for a larger audience to play around with.

This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.4 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, BIND DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: March 16, 2011) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), and Open University UK (http://www.open.ac.uk/) announced that students enrolled in Open University's introductory Linux course will now be eligible for a promotional voucher to obtain the CompTIA Linux+ Powered by LPI certification. Students and IT professionals who earn their CompTIA Linux+ Powered by LPI certification are automatically eligible to apply for and receive their LPIC-1 certification.

The "enterprise distribution" business is a bit of a funny one; it often seems like an attempt - by vendors and customers both - to fit free software back into the business model long used by proprietary operating systems vendors. It will necessarily create some tensions between the values of the free software community (including free access, rapid development, and collaboration) and those of the business, which include rigid stability and the preservation of competitive advantage. Recent changes made by Red Hat show the effects that this tension can cause, especially when combined with strong, arguably unfair, competition.

This little known "law" is a corollary to the more famous Moore's Law of semiconductor growth. My last column created some interest outside of the Linux Magazine domain. In addition to being accused of shilling ARM processors, there were those who thought my prediction of ARM based supercomputers quite absurd. Of course, I have been wrong before, but not this time.

If you missed SCaLE 9X you won't want to miss this episode! Interviews with Leigh Honeywell (Hackerspaces), Jane Silber (Canonical), Orv Beach (SCaLE), Donald Burr (SCaLE), as well as, Lightning Interviews from the expo floor. Check out all the things you missed or relive the conference all over again.

I've been getting closer and closer to needing a Dropbox-like utility on my Linux, Windows and Mac machines (one of each, really). I need access to a certain subset of my files on more than one computer. I could've gone with Ubuntu One, except that I'm not running Ubuntu (and the Windows client is in beta ... no Mac client as far as I know).