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On top of the busiest time we've ever encountered, we need to move from our current digs. On September 18th, we are having a recycle day out at our shop in Lakeway. We tentatively have a Boy Scout troop coming out to help but that is not yet nailed down. If you have some time to come out and help us sort through the mountain of stuff to get recycled, I would appreciate your participation. So, as you all know, this is going to cost us some money. Instead of just posting our current needs, we've decided to open a store of sorts to raise the money we need. We have some cool and useful stuff and more will be added in the next two weeks.

Every Linux distribution has to strike a balance between being up to date and being stable, between including the latest versions of software packages and retaining better tested, more mature versions. Fedora, for example, is known for having the very latest software, whilst Debian GNU/Linux has a reputation for being a particularly stable distribution, with the software included in each new release already well cured.

It happened today... Bricsys released the official version of bricscad V10. No long in beta stage is now commercial with version 10.6.3-2 (windows version is 10.4.18-1). So now Linux users have a CAD software capable of handling DWG file format. Now there is no excuse to stay with windows just because you need Autocad. Bricscad is a very capable software and in many case can do better.

It's probably not true to say that everybody hates Facebook. But there are many millions (of the hundreds of millions that use the site) that claim to hate Facebook's cavalier approach to privacy and founder Mark Zuckerberg's equally vague approach to the future of our privacy. There are even groups dedicated to encouraging users to leave Facebook (some on Facebook itself, ironically).

In the first of a series of three exclusive interviews about Google’s latest and greatest developer tools, Linux User & Developer talks App Engine with Google’s Fred Sauer…

We've talked a little bit before about ways to bring your new Linux users along so that their migration experience is positive. Here are a few more tips to help make the switch to Linux a pain-free experience for you and for them.

How you can monitor your server and performs usage? With Bijk you get online 30 graphs about Load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, PostreSQL and others with Alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and with Cloud providers.

I have upgraded my Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 10.10 beta. Chromium Web Browser was the first thing I installed in my new upgraded Ubuntu 10.10. When I finally launched Chromium, it had a small surprise in store for me. Chromium prompted me with a choice of popular search engines I could use.

Qwit is Qt based twitter client also working for another social network like identi.ca, and you can add custom social network if you know the API source for it. Supporting many link shortener by default using u.nu one of the smallest link shortener.

Linux may have started out small, but it’s grown by leaps and bounds. Today, Linux can be found on everything from a home wireless router to the gigantic mainframe in the data center. Although the spirit of openness surrounds Linux, thanks in part to the GPL, distinct communities have sprung up to support the different environments, each with a slightly different take on what it means to be in the Linux community.

Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value. Get the benefits of packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution.

It’s test day time again, folks, and this one’s a biggie! You may have read about the brand new initialization system, systemd, written by Lennart Poettering. At the moment, we’re planning to use it as the default initialization system for Fedora 14. Obviously, this is a bold step with a fairly new piece of code.

LXer Feature: 05-Sept-2010

There is nothing quite like a good conversation and we have a plethora of articles that started many a good one in our forums this past week including Abiword has smart quotes, what technology has Microsoft ever been the first to market with? Another "There are too many Linux's" article and look out, your Linux system fell down and it can't get up. Enjoy!

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 11.3. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

We had a visit from a vendor the other day, one who sells high end Unix hardware. The meeting was informative, and overall went well. While I was walking the vendor out of the building, he turned to me and told me how learning his version of Unix would really help me as I matured in my profession. He continued to say how any company who needed a Linux admin could just grab a kid right out of college, because, according to him, it was no big deal. I understand his position as a vendor, and wanting to push his proprietary software. I also understand that he’s right that learning new things is good for any career, but he’s completely wrong on his perception of Linux.

An operating System for your kids Maybe you start thinking that after all you may begin to try Linux, I presented 27 reasons to love linux, but for your children? Well, you need a secure operating system with games that will "protect" from the net and teach them the first things on the computer world, and in general it is for their stimulating and educational ... and so, what's better than Linux! In this hub, i'll present not one but five choice between Linux distributions dedicated to childrens, each of these has been designed specifically for use by children alone, you can really tell me that Windows have the same? At the end of this short presentation I hope to consider the idea of installing one of these distributions on your old PC and give it to your son.

In meantime Xen 4.0.1 is available via rawhide repositories . Been installed along with 2.6.32.21 pvops kernel and the most recent libvirt 0.8.3 on top of F14 (rawhide) via just several yum install commands,it doesn’t require any longer to build xen rpms using corresponding xen-4.0.1-1.fc14.src.rpm. Changing preferences allows to play with Gnome 3 shell managing virt-manager and other desktop tools.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta has been released, If you have ubuntu 10.10 Lucid Lynx or older version of ubuntu installed and you want to upgrade to this new beta release, you can do it by following the instructions in this post.

I've been running Fedora 13's Xfce spin on my new Lenovo G555 laptop for about a month and a half now, and I'm very much impressed with the performance, functionality and aggressive update policy even in an already aging (by Fedora standards) release.

There have been many changes and updates in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat since Alpha 3, so let's take a look at what's new - in both Desktop and Netbook editions.