Microsoft — or perhaps someone else whom Microsoft definitely pays — has created howsoftwareisbuilt.com, where Microsoft apparently tries to promote itself and ‘embrace’ the FOSS world (here is the latest interview). In the homepage, the site also links to the company’s anti-GNU/Linux pages (“compare” site). How demeaning. Notice the footer which clearly states: “How Software is Built is [...]

Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store. Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity. Freenet works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information. (via Wikipedia)
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The following tutorial will explain how to extract all text from PDFs (including text in images), by using a combination of Ghostscript and a command line OCR tool calledtesseract-ocr. This is yet another guest post by StoneCut.
First we need to convert our PDF to individual image files (TIFF) so we can then OCR-scan them again. We need [...]

In this article we will tell you how to convert a CHM file to a PDF file in Linux.

Well if you are a Google Chrome lover and robots make you go crazy then this one is for you. Presenting an Android themed green – looking theme for the Google Chrome browser. Titled the Robot Theme, this theme is inspired by Google’s Android. We have tested this theme on both Google Chrome for Windows [...]

Jono Bacon, Alan Pope, and many others have written, yesterday we published a new visual story and style for Ubuntu. The core design work was lead by Marcus Haslam, Otto Greenslade and Dominic Edmunds, who are the three visual artists leading our efforts in the Canonical Design team. Once we had the base ideas in place we [...]

Bill Andad writes:
Two headlines grabbed my attention today. The first proclaiming that Linux sucks while the second announced it was possible to boot into a full Linux OS in less than a single solitary second.
Paul Rako reports that one company, an embedded-Linux specialist called MontaVista Software, has gone step further than developing a proper Real-Time Linux [...]

Ubuntu has come a long way since it’s start in 2004. Through these years Ubuntu has changed the face of the linux operating system and has made linux more user-friendly than ever before. Come Ubuntu 10.04 (codenamed Lucid Lynx), a lot is set to change in the Ubuntu Community. Based on a review of brand [...]

The final build of Opera 10.50 has already been released for Windows. It boasts of some superb features and claims to be the fastest browser. The Linux build has, however, not even reached the beta. It is still in the Alpha stage. Nevertheless, here we give you how you can install Opera 10.50 Alpha in [...]

If you are Linux geek and you Eat, Drink & Sleep Linux then you need not worry about getting hired. According to one Dawn M. Foster at Intel, Linux jobs are still one of the highest paid and glamorous jobs compared to other job avenues in the IT sector. Since Linux is something that not [...]

If you have not changed the default password of your internet router or DSL modem, now might be a good time to do it. Otherwise you may get an unwanted visit from Chuck Norris.
No, not the actor. We are talking about the Chuck Norris botnet.
Czech researchers have discovered that the Chuck Norris botnet has been [...]

After about two years of development, the Gnumeric developers have announced the release of version 1.10.0 of the spreadsheet application. The first stable release in the 1.10.x series includes several changes, updates and improvements. This release removes the 65,536 row restriction on spreadsheets and includes many new functions, better OpenDocument Format (ODF) support, new statistical analysis tools, [...]

Today KDE announces the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, “Caikaku”. The new release brings major new technologies, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework.
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The KDE development team has decided to release another release candidate just before the final release of KDE SC 4.4. This releases does not include any new features from the previous Release Candidate which was released last week. However, it features a lot of bug-fixes from the last Release Candidate.
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K3b, KDE SC’s best CD/DVD creator (or Kreator as they say) , has now entered version 1.70.0, which is the K3b 2 beta. It is expected that the stable version of K3b will be available by the end of this month. This release has better Blue-ray support and better Oxygen icons.
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ATI has released a new version of its Catalyst proprietary Display Driver for Linux. The new driver, i.e. ATI Catalyst 10.1 introduces production support for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. It is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems and introduces the following fixes:
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Nmap, arguably the best network scanning tools available today, got a new release – Nmap 5.20. This is the first stable Nmap release since Nmap 5.0, which was released in July 2009. The new release comes with a lot of new features; most significant among them being the addition of 342 new signatures and the [...]

The second beta of Skype 2.1 has been now released with a lot of improvements aimed at bringing the Linux client closer to that in Windows and Mac has to offer.
This release fixes a lot of stability issues and also brings a lot of UI improvements. Chats are faster, styles can be switched on the [...]

The first release candidate of the upcoming KDE SC 4.4 has been made available today. This is the first of two release candidates that is being planned. The second release candidate is being planned for 20th January and the final release on 9th February.
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(NOTE: Although the title says this is for adding OpenSUSE, it should work for adding other OS as well)
OpenSUSE 11.2 uses the legacy Grub in contrast to Grub2 that is used by Ubuntu 9.10. So, when I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 in my laptop which has Ubuntu Karmic installed, the Grub that it installed did not [...]

Google has finally open the Google Chrome Extensions for everyone on Linux and Windows. Mac users however have to wait as it is not yet available for them just yet. Earlier extensions were available only for developers. This launch is one day ahead of what was expected.
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Google Chrome is finally available officially for Linux distributions now.

Earlier we wrote an article on how to change the splash image in Grub using Start Up Manager. In the new Grub 2, Start Up Manager can no longer do that and we have to do it manually until StartUp Manager 2 comes. However, Grub 2 supports splash images with higher resolution than was possible in [...]

Find out how to get the all new Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 without actually downloading the entire CD image.