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Quite often businesses view alternatives if products or services offer better Return on Investment. Open Source is one such option that is often debated in terms of better returns, lower operational costs and of course minimum breakeven time depending on the size of your organization etc. However,

This tutorial show how to install and Configure SAMBA in Debian Squeeze. If you want to share files between your Debian and Windows computers, your best option is to use Samba file sharing.

Gone are the days when it was sufficient if students coming out of high schools knew one end of the computer to the other. With each passing year, children are becoming increasingly techno-perfect, in small degree, which translates into better career prospects such as better paying jobs, higher salary etc. To achieve higher levels of proficiency children need to fall back on the age-old trick of starting early.

Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0.4, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0. that come to improves stability and fixes regressions.

Today children of all ages use computers and it becomes an essential part of their learning curve that they understand the basics of keeping their system going. This is made easier when they work on open source platforms such as Linux.

Chrome takes up 10 % of worldwide browser share by end of January 2011. The chrome extension gallery features over hundreds of extensions that google-chrome-logofacilitate the chrome users by extending the browser’s functionality.

Tinycore3.5 is released, this new release comes with many updates and some improvements, so boot times has been improved with optimization of startup code. Administration improved with deletes of uninstalled ondemand without reboot.

Proxmox Virtual Environment is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines. Proxmox VE is simple to use: Pre-built Virtual Appliances, Install and manage with a few clicks.

LinuMint10 KDE RC is released, this release comes with many new features and system improvements. LinuxMint 10 KDE RC features latest and recently released KDE 4.6, the menu was switched to Lancelot, the Software Manager got a better categorization of software and the use of application icons.

When a group of German coders at OpenOffice (belonging to database major, Oracle) finally forked away on Sept28th 2010 there was much for everybody to talk about while Oracle OpenOffice maintained dignified silence. The tussle between a David and Goliath has always been fascinating to watch and the breaking away and regeneration of the minnow LibreOffice against the giant OpenOffice has all the makings of a great epic! Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice released their 3.3 versions in the last week of January 2011 and thus began the bout between LibreOffice Vs OpenOffice

In this tutorial we will show you how to get Pidgin to speak instant messages, notifications ...in Ubuntu using Festival. Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system that offers a full text to speech system with various APIs

This is a nice collection of 19 open source games for Linux that contains most addictive, fun and refined games. For some of these games, also installation steps are included.

Finally, after 24 Months of constant developement Debian Squeeze 6.0 has been released today, this release comes with many updates and new features, it includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications, numerous updated software packages, over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium, the monitoring solution Icinga and more.

Google finally released Google chrome 9 stable, 2 weeks later than it’s promised release-date. We have summarized top 5 must-try features in the new chrome!

Finally, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) is set to penetrate deep into the Cloud Computing Enterprise segment post the Dell partnership. Canonical had first debuted the UEC along with their Jaunty Jackalope (9.04 Release) in April 2009.

GPS (Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.

Today, I installed Firefox 4 beta. My very first impression when the new browser opened was “How much like Chrome!” On exploring firefox_iconFirefox 4 beta I found the design and functionality has incredible likeness with Google’s browser Chrome. In this post we will deem at the new features of Firefox and comment on how they look alike Google Chrome.

Sabayon Linux 5.5 is released, it is available for both GNOME and KDE editions . This new release features, best AMD/ATI and NVIDIA Sabayon4Linux Desktop support, faster boot time compared to Sabayon 5.4, improved Windows autostart support, try Sabayon directly from your Microsoft OS and more

VLC 1.1.6 is released, this new released comes with small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues.

CMU Sphinx is one of the most popular speech recognition applications for Linux and it can correctly capture words. it also gives the developers the ability to build speech systems, interact with voice and build something unique and useful.