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Whoever thought that Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora consist solely of free software would be wrong. The new list compiled by the Free Software Foundation showing truly free distributions has a mere nine entries.

The highlights of LinuxCon 2009, a conference organised by the Linux Foundation, will be available as a live video stream using the open CODECs Ogg / Theora, viewed via a Web browser Java applet. Alternatively, they may be viewed via an embedded player such as RealPlayer, MPlayer or the Windows Media Player.

This Nagios Mini-Course shows you how to configure Passive Checks from clients which are sent to a central Nagios Server. Passive checks use the NSCA or Nagios Service Check Adaptor which is an add-on for the Nagios Server. You can write custom scripts to evaluate applications and send the output to a central Nagios Server. Passive Checks are often used when a firewall prevents Nagios from obtaining information from the client.

A key Red Hat partner has developed an iPhone application to monitor JBoss application server performance. Here's the scoop along with some other key JBoss development trends.

We are happy to announce the release of Port Report 1.11. In this release, we have fixed quite a few bugs that were in the previous release. But what we are proud to announce in this release, is the following of EtherChannel aka PortChannel Ports using the Port Agreggation Protocol. Release notes are below....

The GNOME Foundation, which coordinates development of the GNOME platform, has announced the release of its first quarterly reportPDF. The Q2 2009 Quarterly report spans June, July and August and covers several topics, including the projects migration to the Git version control systems (VCS).

Not so long ago we discovered a simplified version of Nautilus which seems to miss Ubuntu Karmic after all so the only way to get it is through it's PPA. But still, one of the most requested features in Nautilus must be the dual-panel view, which gives you the ability to work in two directories at one. Sure, you can use tabs, but a dual panel Nautilus would be really useful. KDE has Dolphin which has this feature but for Gnome users, there is only Gnome Commander but I for one would like to see this in Nautilus. Holger Berndt's implemented this into Nautilus so everyone can enjoy the dual panel view. Here is a video with this modified Nautilus, but please note that some image polishing took place since this screencast was recorded:

Now Linux is the easiest of all operating systems to use, and yet anguish abounds in the land. Too hard! Too hard! Make it easier! What the heck happened?

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

My music collection is composed of different formats .mp3, ogg, aac but i want to sync everyone of them as mp3 to my Nokia e71. This is where .is_audio_player comes in, nope its not an application, nope its not a codec, its not a library either. its just a file (yeah file) its a file you place in the root directory of the storage of your music device from where it does its magic.

Part Two in the continuing saga of Cave Dweller's Living with Ubuntu.

In an attempt to broaden the appeal of its Lotus Symphony productivity software, IBM has released a number of widgets that boost the suite's collaborative capabilities.

Highlights from FISL10 in Porto Alegre, Brazil including interviews with Chris DiBona and Michael Tiemann, using Open Source to make things out of computer junk, and President Lula da Silva speaks out on free software ...

Overnight, Novell announced the availability of MonoTouch which allows .Net developers to bring their tools and skills together to create iPhone applications. Until now, developers wishing to create iPhone applications were pretty-much limited to the tools provided by Apple. Novell's announcement of the toolkit, developed by the Mono Project, means that existing applications, along with their look-and-feel can easily be ported from .Net and Mono environments (under Windows and Linux) to the iPhone and iPod Touch.

There are default mailbox sizes which may lead to mail delivery failure when you go beyond the defaults. In order to avoid problems you need to understand the difference between mailboxes and virtual_mailboxes as well as know the default sizes and how to adjust them. Here is the error that you want to avoid:

The announcement arriving today from New Zealand is a lot like a birth announcement. It's been nine months in the making, reveals all the vital statistics, and encourages everyone to come and visit. In that spirit, we are pleased to announce the arrival of the conference schedule for the 2010 linux.conf.au. It was in January, even before the 2009 conference had ended, that our coverage of the 2010 event began. First up was the announcement that, despite the .au, 2010 would see conference participants converge on Wellington, New Zealand, the second visit down the kiwi aisle.

If today you can convince someone to use some Open-Source software package – a document creator, a presentation tool, a web browser, or even a web server – you give yourself the wedge to start pushing for an Open Source operating system.

A friend of mine has an ADSL account with BT/Yahoo here in the UK. For some reason BT/Yahoo feel compelled to supply (nay insist upon) a customised version of I.E. as the browser for their customers. Okay so first things first: why choose I.E.? If you are thinking it’s for that old chestnut of greater compatibility with a higher number of websites, think again. That argument would work if your customised browser was simply IE rebadged and to all intents and purposes presented as IE. This monstrosity doesn’t — it presents as a BT/Yahoo browser based upon IE. Thus some of the IE compatibility works and some doesn’t. But there’s more — much more. Read the full article at Free Software Magazine.

Microsoft announced this past week that anyone could now purchase a CableCard and install it themselves. No need for OEM help or dealing with pesky cable company rental fees. CableCard allows computer systems to view digital TV transmissions without the aid of a cable box or equivalent.

Contrary to earlier reports stating that the forthcoming id Tech 5 engine from id Software would likely not be ported to Linux due to the involved work, cost, and lackluster Linux graphics drivers (according to John Carmack), it looks like we will end up seeing this next-generation game engine running with Linux.