Linux turns 17.
Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today. it began, Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? more...

Picasa for Linux 3.0: Photo Management Done Right.
Google’s Picasa photo editing tool for Linux has caught up to its Windows sibling with a new beta 3 release. The latest version of Picasa for Linux packs in all the features from the recent Windows beta, save one — there’s no slideshow movie feature. more... and Picasa 3 (beta) for Linux and Google Picasa gets face recognition.

GIMP 2.6 released, one step closer to taking on Photoshop.
A new release of the venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is now available for download. Version 2.6 offers a variety of new features, user interface improvements, and is also the first release to include support for the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL), a powerful, graph-based image editing framework. more... and GIMP 2.6 Release Notes and GIMP Gets an Interface Makeover in New Version 2.6.

Mono 2.0 lets .Net apps run on Linux.
Mono 2.0, an open-source runtime enabling .Net-based applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix, is being released Monday, featuring capabilities for a number of .Net technologies. more...

Areca and plan/b offer Java-based backup for Linux.
Everyone needs to back up their computers, but when you have machines running on different platforms and different operating systems, it can be annoying to have to learn several interfaces. Areca and plan/b are two Java-based backup solutions that can run on any platform, including Linux, Windows, and Unix. Although maintenance has been discontinued for plan/b, both apps are worth a look. more...

Introduction to Tomato Firmware.
In the annals of computer software with bizarre and seemingly random names, "Tomato" is probably one of the less weird examples as these things go. But whether you say tomay-toe or tomah-toe, this one is neither a fruit nor a vegetable—it is a firmware for wireless routers, including the popular WRT54G family. more...

Broadcom Switches to the Light Side: The Start of a New Era?
As anyone familiar with the Linux wireless scene before 2006 knows, Broadcom, which manufacturers the wireless chipsets found in many laptops, was for a long time synonymous with everything evil about closed-source software. That’s changing. more... and Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards.

Applications.
Amahi makes managing your home network simpler by centralizing networking services, and automatically managing the complexity for the users of your network.
VMware Server 2 download.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.
ZOHO Productivity and Collaboration Apps.

Misc.
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds.
MontaVista Linux drives Dell's quick-boot feature.
Opera 9.6 RC 1.
Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released.
The Fedora 10 beta is out.
RealNetworks’ Software Lands in Court.
iTunes store shutdown feared.
Apple Squashes the iPhone SDK NDA: What's the OSS Impact?

How To Tips.

How To Convert flv (flash video) to dvd iso in Ubuntu.
How To Installing Xbox Media Center (XBMC) On Ubuntu 8.04.
How To Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases, Each Table In An Individual File And Upload To Remote FTP.
How To Data Recovery With TestDisk.

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