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Being developed since 2007 and integrated in Ubuntu since 2008 with their Ubuntu 8.04 LTS release has been Wubi, the Windows-based Ubuntu Installer. While most Linux users tend to install Ubuntu using the LiveCD or the alternate CD installer, by using Wubi you can setup a full desktop from within Microsoft Windows. Wubi places Ubuntu into a disk image still residing on the Windows partition, thereby making it easy to install and remove without risking any problems of messing up your drive's partitions. While Wubi may lower the barrier for entry to trying out an Ubuntu Linux desktop, it does not come without some performance penalties associated to using the loop-mounted device stored on the Microsoft file-system.

Digging into the underlying operating system internals, Western Digital doesn't detail much in the user manual, but does give us a hint with a sentence that notes that the device includes open source software. The company also provides a link to its GPL code download location. Code licensed under the GPL is open source code that requires vendors to make it available to all users. A quick look at the WD's GPL code reveals that the WD TV Live Plus runs a Linux 2.6.22.19 kernel as the underlying embedded operating system.

(London, UK and Sacramento, CA, USA: October 21, 2010) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that the LPIC-1 certification program for Linux professionals has been accepted as a nationally recognized IT accreditation for college students at secondary schools and technical colleges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. LPI's affiliate, LPI-UK (http://www.lpi-uk.org/) worked in co-operation with e-skills UK (http://www.e-skills.com/) to ensure this initiative. In addition, the two organizations are working in partnership with the Scottish Qualifications Authority (http://www.sqa.org.uk) to recognize LPIC-1 as a nationally accepted award and SCQF Credit within Scotland as well.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This tutorials differs from "The Perfect Server - Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0) With MyDNS & Courier [ISPConfig 3]" in that I use BIND and Dovecot here instead of MyDNS and Courier (of course, the other two variants - BIND & Courier or MyDNS & Dovecot are possible as well).

I have tried to collect in one page some tips, tricks and links useful to print many OpenDocument files, or to convert them to any format for which OpenOffice (or LibreOffice, for that matter) have an output filter. Suggestions and comments are very welcome!

Steve Jobs released a firestorm of reaction when he went after Android at Monday's earning call, but he also started an interesting debate on what constitutes open source software.

With just a few mouse clicks you can support people around the world downloading Ubuntu via Bittorrent. Like donating blood, you'll feel good about doing it. Who do you know that would like to do so, too?

Recently, the SOGo (http://www.sogo.nu) developers at Inverse developed together with the OpenChange (http://www.openchange.org) team a storage provider that reuses much of the SOGo code. This means Microsoft Outlook can talk to SOGo just like if it was an Exchange server. This is a major step in the FOSS groupware world as costly MAPI connectors can now be avoided for Microsoft Outlook users and they can benefit from a modern groupware server to handle all their needs. A video demonstrating Outlook connected to SOGo through OpenChange server is available from the SOGo website. And yes, everything is available under the GNU GPL and is under active development.

The Linux Foundation has announced that this year, Linux creator Linus Torvalds is one of three recipients of the prestigious C&C Prize. According to the NEC C&C Foundation which awarded the prize, Torvalds is being recognised for his "contributions to the advancement of the information technology industry, education, research, and the improvement of our lives".

For general use, it is sufficient to configure KDE using the options provided in System Settings and in individual application settings. Nevertheless, to unlock the full power of KDE, you should learn some of the system administration tools that it provides.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has made major bets in recent months that touch-enabled computers will become ubiquitous in the open-source world as well. It made that belief clear last week when it showcased the Unity interface running on a tablet computer. Read on for a look.

Few days ago LinuxMint 10 Julia RC1 was released, this release comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your linux-mintdesktop even more comfortable to use.

The developers behind ReactOS, the free software operating system working to re-implement the architecture of Microsoft Windows XP/2003 and attaining binary compatibility with existing Windows software, is now out with a new release. The ReactOS release came about one year ago, but out this afternoon is the brand new ReactOS 0.3.12.

Vineyard is a collection of tools you can use as a replacement for Wine's default configuration tool, designed to make it easier to manage Wine.

On Friday we published an FSFE analysis on patents and standards, and shared it with the European Commission. This was in reaction to a letter [pdf] which the Business Software alliance (BSA) had written to the Commission in a last-ditch attempt to eradicate the last traces of Open Standards from the European Interoperability Framework. We replied to the BSA’s arguments, picking them apart one by one.

Once again, the presstitutes have attacked desktop Linux. Enough is enough, it's time to fight back and put them in their place.

October 20 marks 10 days since the release of Ubuntu 10.10. Now that we’ve had a week and a half to evaluate it on production machines, here are some thoughts on how close it comes to scoring the “perfect 10." Here’s our perspective.

Having already previewed the Ubuntu 10.10 beta with good results on more than one system, I felt safe upgrading my primary desktop system from v10.04 to v10.10 once the new version went gold. To my astonishment, neither my keyboard, mouse, nor display were functioning after the upgrade.

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has been in business for four years, so it seems about time for the organization to have a full-time employee. But is the organization ready to support a full-time employee? What started as a small offshoot of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is now home to more than 20 open source projects, with others waiting in the wings. It has a solid set of services for its organizations, but fundraising may be a challenge for now full-time Executive Director Bradley Kuhn.

It could be too late for Microsoft to re-enter the mobile market. A lot has been written about Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 since it's official launch earlier this month. Most commentators are split down the middle: those that think Windows Phone 7 is the iPhone challenger users have been waiting for, and those that think that Windows Phone 7 is simply too late.