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The inspiration behind PcLinuxOS, also known as PCLOS, is Bill Reynolds, who is known to fans of PCLinuxOS as Texstar. PCLinuxOS began as an offshoot of Mandrake/Mandriva, to which Texstar had been a long time contributor of third-party packages. The objective was to build a fast, reliable distribution of Linux, that was both a Live distribution on the model of Knoppix and a fully installable and flexible Linux desktop, driven by Reynolds' passion to make the perfect software package. "I love to package," he explained. "It is like a puzzle where all the pieces have to fit together or the code doesn't work. That is my favourite part of doing PCLOS."

Bids are due to SCO by October 5th at 5 PM and I suspect there will also be a few hedge/investment type groups that may express a lowball offer interest as well. Then again, the SCO Unix business could have such little value that no one in their right mind will offer anything for it and it will finally die the death it should have had years ago and simply fade away.

A few months back Glyn Moody, noted open-source journalist, asked the question, "Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?" Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO answered, "Red Hat could get to $5 billion in due course, but that this entailed 'replacing $50 billion of revenue' currently enjoyed by other computer companies. Guess what? Red Hat is on its way.

"Because of Linux we're able to develop a programming interface to the product GUI's that allows for a lot less time to be spent by our partners, for training on how to configure a device," Mark Monday, vice-president and general manager of Cisco's small business technology group told InternetNews.com. "What we find in this market is that partners value quickness and simplicity. It is an enabler for us to simplify the product for our customer and our partners."

See the difference? A few days ago, Mark Shuttleworth took some time to address critics who scoff at Canonical's contributions to GNOME and the Linux kernel itself by sharing his thoughts on the subject in his personal blog. The post, titled "Reflections on Ubuntu, Canonical and the march to free software adoption", reflecting on Canonical and Ubuntu's contributions to the world of free and open source software. There are a couple of interesting stories, some obvious rationalization, some genuine insights, and more than a few nods to the various forces that come together to create a Linux distribution.

xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites (currently supports 76 websites and increasing!). xVideoServiceThief also provide you the ability to convert each video in most popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats. xVideoServicethief is across platform, it is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

Open Shot video editor has reached yet another milestone. Open Shot version 1.2.2 is released with a number of bug fixes and new features. Here is how you install latest Open Shot video editor in Ubuntu.

Nokia released Qt 4.7 and with it comes several features geared toward smartphones. 4.7 features improvements to Webkit compiling, OpenGL support, and Webkit scrolling. The application framework also got an object-oriented scripting language called QML.

Timesys announced the availability of the LinuxLink Free Edition, a "cloud" version of its Linux development platform that provides kernels, toolchains, debuggers, the TimeStorm Eclipse IDE, and the Web Factory build system. The company also announced a LinuxLink subscription for running MeeGo on the new Intel Atom E6xx processor.

2.6.36 offers VFS optimisations, has returned to integrating Ext3 file systems with "data=ordered" by default and can store data from shared Windows or Samba disks in local cache to improve performance. Numerous new and improved drivers enhance the kernel's storage and network hardware support.

Oracle is throwing hardware-accelerated graphics and web integration into mobile Java to catch and contain Google's rogue Android The database giant has laid out plans for Java ME - Oracle's preferred flavor of Java on mobile - that will let the stack render HTML, CSS, and Javascript by default.

Use the map/reduce technique to give an SQL look & feel to your shell scripts. SQL and Map/Reduce are both functional programming constructs. By using a Map/Reduce script, you can easily do SQL-style programming in bash.

We had a complete review of GNOME Shell before, and we were quite happy with the way it was evolving. GNOME Shell, even though it is still in its early stages of development, was an absolute delight to use. Here are 6 of the most beautiful GNOME Shell themes I have ever seen.

Mozilla has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) as a licensee. The unsurprising move reflects Mozilla's long-standing commitment to open source software and support for the Linux platform. It's also yet another high-profile endorsement of the OIN's approach to open intellectual property licensing.

For most of us, using our preferred desktop Linux distributions has become second nature. Yet remembering back to when I first made the switch, it seems that specific Linux apps made the OS change much easier. In this article, I want to share some of the applications I use on a daily basis. Some of the applications are GNOME desktop specific, so whenever possible I have included their KDE counterparts to help even things out.

Diaspora, the open source social networking project, has some pretty bad stuff lying in its contributor agreement. Basically, the company owns any contributions and can sell, license, and create solely owned derivative contributions based on a user contribution.

For those disappointed by Oracle's decision to discontinue supporting a free version of its Solaris Unix-like operating system, a new alternative emerged to take its place. OpenIndiana is part of the Illumos Foundation. OpenIndiana will be built on the last available version of OpenSolaris and will contain bits of Solaris 11. OpenIndiana is the new OpenSolaris.

I still use mutt for my mail but recently rediscovered that on one remote host when connecting via PuTTY, my default settings left the line-drawn threading characters unreadable, which in turn affected scrolling. The first solution I found was in this forum post. It suggested changing the terminal settings, instead of anything in mutt itself.

OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way. The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:

Oracle has spun a new version of RHEL called Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, claimed to be more than 75 percent faster at OLTP tasks. The Oracle-optimized Linux kernel was announced at Oracle World, which also debuted Oracle Fusion Applications, MySQL 5.5, new Java enhancements, and a Linux-ready Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle continues to resell Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in the form of its own RHEL-based Oracle Linux, which has been previously called Unbreakable Linux. Oracle Linux will still be supported, but the similarly RHEL-based Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is now "the only Linux kernel Oracle recommends for use with Oracle software," says the software giant.