Ubuntu Introducing the Hardy Heron.
I am delighted to have the pleasure of announcing the Hardy Heron , the next version of Ubuntu that will succeed Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10). Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. more...

The next 'business' Ubuntu is on its way.
The next Ubuntu Linux distribution with long-term support, "Hardy Heron," Ubuntu 8.04, will be released in April 2008. more... and Some Hardy Heron Thoughts – A Business Perspective.

HP releases its first mass-market Linux PC.
Hewlett-Packard appears to have released its first mass-market PC with pre-installed Linux. Specifically, the company will soon be selling RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Desktop 5 on its HP dx2250 PC to Australian customers. more...

Three MythTV Linux distros compared.
My Series 1 TiVo is getting old, so I am planning an escape route based on MythTV, a free software system that turns an old computer into a personal video recorder. This week I tested three MythTV-specific Linux distributions: KnoppMyth, MythDora, and MythBuntu. more...

How SCO helped Linux.
By drawing so much attention to Linux, and failing so spectacularly to find any legal flaw in it, SCO has actually helped Linux's business acceptance. more...

Adobe adds H.264 to Flash Player.
In what promises to boost video quality in desktop, mobile, and embedded devices, Adobe announced that it has added H.264 support to its popular Flash Player software. "Flash Player 9, Update 3 beta" is available for download from Adobe's Labs website, and supports Windows XP, Macintosh OS X, and Linux. more...

Opera 9.5 (Alpha) Features & Video.
Opera has done a remarkable job of keeping the specs and features of Opera 9.5 under wraps. The Opera Desktop Team wrote a post last week that detailed some of the under-the-hood work that has been going on in 9.5. more... and Go and get Opera 9.5 alpha.

Vista SP1's delay is Desktop Linux's good news.
Vista's been something of a flop. I know it. You know it. Even in Bill Gates' secret sanctum they know it. Businesses, in particular, aren't about to touch Vista for corporate desktops until they get SP1. Guess what? They're not going to be getting it anytime soon. more... and Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS.

An introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio users.
Eclipse is a new world for Microsoft® Visual Studio® developers, and getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Learn about these and other differences between the two environments, so that you can begin to feel at home with Eclipse. more...

Keep your laptop and PC in Unison.
I usually carry my laptop everywhere and do work on it, but I do also need to work at my desktop PC, so I need to synchronize the files on the two machines. I have used several sync tools in the past, ranging from simple commands like scp and rsync to utilities like Krusader, which includes a way to synchronize directories on different machines. Recently I started using Unison. more...

Tutorials.
10 GIMP Video Lessons online.
Free Linux eBooks. If you have trouble opening these eBooks use gnochm or archmage package.

Magazine.
Full Circle Magazine Issue 4 and pdf.
PCLinuxOS Magazine September 2007 Issue 13.
Linux Gazette #142.
Foresight Linux Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6 (August 2007).

Applications.
Weather wallpaper is a program which connects to NOAA each hour to get the current weather at the specified location and creates and sets a wallpaper with the data retrieved.
Zenoss Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring.
PowerTOP is a Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary. more...
Kochizz is an Apache HTTP Server configuration editor. and more...
WinFF is a cross platform batch GUI for FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert.
Dell firmware-tools update—Brand-spanking-new GUI.
Ekiga is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME. more...
Conky is a light-weight system monitor. more...
Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. more...

How To Tips.

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