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While many believed "aptitude" will soon replace "apt-get" given the fact that it's a lot "smarter", it seems that's not the case in Ubuntu - in fact it's quite the opposite: aptitude has been removed from Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat though it is still available in the repositories.

Red Hat is the king of commercial Linux support, no doubt about it. Canonical has entered the market and with some refined support products could present a very compelling alternative. Is it enough to make the company profitable long term, though?

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from June 23rd - 25th, 2010.

A month ago we celebrated the release of Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" with an incredible collection of Ubuntu Lucid Wallpapers. Now it's time for some more Ubuntu wallpapers coming your way. A compilation of 30 beautiful Ubuntu wallpapers for desktop.

This network camera runs uClinux the smallest Linux distribution in the world. The network cameras build by Axis are intelligent and even have a shell scripting environment on board.

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

Version 5.9.6 of PLplot has been released. PLplot is a cross-platform, scientific graphics plotting library.

Desktop Linux has floundered for three main reasons: too few applications, limited desktop hardware compatibility, and too few tools (not to mention skilled people) to manage a boatload of Linux desktop systems.

This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Fedora 12 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails. FuzzyOCR tries to keep the system load low by scanning only mails that have not already been categorized as spam by SpamAssassin, thus avoiding unnecessary work.

Sometimes life is very circular. Once upon a time, I was a film major. Then I was an astronomer, then I was unemployed for quite awhile, during which time I discovered free software, and as a result of my various rantings about it, I started writing for Free Software Magazine. Now it seems that I’ve become a film-maker again. I’m working on not one, but two animated science-fiction films using free software tools, intended for a free-licensed release on the internet under new distribution models. And, being a writer, I’m going to write about it. I think it will be both entertaining and useful. Read the full tutorial at Free Software Magazine.

Qt 4.7 has not been released yet, but the curious can download the beta or even grab a snapshot from git. The big news in this point seven release is Qt Quick - a new approach to user interfaces. Before I get carried away and start throwing screenshots at you, let's step back and look at today's user interfaces. On the desktop, standard buttons, sliders, text fields and windows still serve a purpose. However, on all gadgets running Linux these days, gray buttons are considered boring. Instead, the users want fluid, animated, glossy user interfaces that go with the branding of the device. This is where Qt Quick fits in.

In the Light Themes testing PPA (which finally includes the latest Murrine Engine so the PPA is now usable by anyone) some updates today brought a new icon pack called "Humanities" derived from the Humanity icon theme and comes in two versions: Humanities-Dark-Orange (for a dark panel) and Humanities-Dark-Orange-Light (for a light panel).

Whether you are monitoring your network to identify performance issues, debugging an application, or have found an application on your network that you do not recognize, occasionally you need to look deep into the protocols being used on your UNIX® network to understand what they are doing. Some protocols are easy to identify and understand, even when used on non-standard ports. Others need more investigation to understand what they are doing and what information they are exchanging. In this article, we will take a look at techniques for performing detailed analysis of the protocols in use on your UNIX network.

The Mutt MUA started in 1995 when Michael Elkins wrote the first version. It's powerful, light-weight, made for CLI, and tends to suck less than do other email clients. It's my MUA of choice, and if you've never used it (or haven't in a while), you may want to give it a try. For the purposes of this little tutorial, I am going to assume that you use Gmail (who doesn't these days?). Another thing, Mutt has many more configuration options than those I will present here, I encourage you to look through the reference and explore more.

Which is better? Microsoft Windows Server or open-source Linux? This debate arouses vehement opinions, but according to one IT consultant who spends a lot of time with both Windows and Linux, it's a matter of arguing which server OS is the most appropriate in the context of the job that needs to be done, based on factors such as cost, performance, security and application usage.

Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide range of loosely connected issues. The rapid growth of the Android ecosystem and the significant number of new Android devices that are reaching the market with heavy software customizations has raised some questions about whether Google's Linux platform is going to succumb to the fragmentation menace. In this article, we'll take a look at what fragmentation means for mobile Linux and how Google's operating system addresses some of the biggest challenges.

Mozilla open source evangelist Chris Blizzard has unloaded on both Apple and Google for abusing the HTML5 moniker, confusing netizens everywhere, and undermining the slow march towards truly open web standards. Blizzard is so peeved at Apple and Google that he even goes so far as to lavish praise on Microsoft for its belated embrace of open standards.

In this article by Anghel Leonard, author of the book JSF 2.0 Cookbook, we will cover the following features of JSF 2.0: 1. JSF 2.0 annotations 2. The JSF 2.0 exception handling mechanism 3. Bookmarking JSF pages with PrettyFaces

Christopher Blizzard thinks Apple's new demos, "entirely miss the point of the web, interoperability, standards and html5." Apple recently released an HTML5 showcase intended to highlight the company's commitment to open Web standards. The demo, which championed the inclusive nature of open Web standards such as CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5 had one problem –– it only worked within Apple's proprietary Safari Web browser.

One good thing about Linux system is that you can change almost every single aspect of the system. Dislike the dull wallpaper? Change it. Not happy with the default splash screen? Change it. Getting bored of the default panel menu (the place where you access Applications, Places and System)? You can change it as well.