Despite the freezing temperatures, things are going pretty well, here are the latest news from Mageia.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/?p=271

There are hundreds of compelling reasons why Linux is better than all the rival operating systems. Here are just 20.

Read the full thing at http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/20-reasons-you-should-switch-to-linux-912294

This screencast shows all the power and diversity of Konqueror the KDE file manager and web browser.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO3fIAPPZGs

Based on the run rates of the current quarter, Red Hat will likely reach $1 billion in annual revenue in 2011. Only a handful of companies, probably less than 20 software firms, have ever hit this milestone. Red Hat will be the first open source-focused company to break the billion dollar barrier.

Read the full thing at http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2010/11/30/red-hat-at-1-billion/

SSH is an awesome powerful tool, there are unlimited possibility when it comes to SSH, heres the top Voted SSH commands

Read the full thing at http://blog.urfix.com/25-ssh-commands-tricks/

Hello all,

Here it is! The association has now been officially created as you can see on the “Journal Officiel”. (You can now send us postcards and gifts! )

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/?p=245

In this tutorial we will be installing Cacti on CentOS 5.5 using the LCMP stack (Linux, Cherokee, MySQL and PHP).

What is Cacti? Cacti is a complete network, server and application graphing solution harnessing the power of RRDtool OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing.

Read the full thing at http://www.how2centos.com/installing-cacti-on-centos-5-5-tutorial/

Novell has announced that it will be retaining the copyrights to the UNIX operating system. In the wake of the acquisition of Novell by Attachmate, which included a sale of intellectual property to CPTN, a Microsoft led consortium, there were questions raised over whether that intellectual property included the copyrights to the UNIX operating system.

Read the full thing at http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Novell-to-retain-UNIX-copyrights-1141864.html

Open source has won. Oh, how time flies. When I started writing in Database in May 2003, my first column was about how the ICT Ministry had got the budget PC programme all wrong. ICT Minister Surapong had announced his great success at negotiating the inclusion of Windows XP and Office XP at just 1,500 baht, a 90 percent discount. He saw it as success. I saw it as capitulation.

Read the full thing at http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/technews/207859/open-source-has-won-precisely-because-we-no-longer-notice-it

Samsung has released the source code that runs the new Galaxy Tab, opening the doors to third-party modifications and enhancements. The Galaxy Tab, hyped as the iPad killer, is an Android-based tablet featuring a 7" touchscreen and a 1.0 GHz ARM processor.

Read the full thing at http://jordanopensource.org/freeplanet/article/samsung-releases-galaxy-tabs-open-source-code