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Linux.com is featuring an article about using KOffice to create good-looking reports. The article covers importing from a database into KSpread, preparing the data for KChart and formatting it in KWord.

Due to severe problems with the scheduled migration of KDE's massive source code repository from the CVS revision control system to Subversion, the KDE project has decided to opt for the BitKeeper source control system as the more pragmatic choice. The full press release follows; further details on what this will mean to KDE developers and contributors requiring repository access will be posted shortly to the KDE Wiki.

Finland-based First Technologies is offering a Linux-based network media player for signage and advertising applications in the transportation, hospitality, and corporate markets. The FXA-50 features a depth of less than 2 inches, LCD display options from 3.9 to 10.4 inches, and central management software supporting a variety of network transports.

Tips and directions for replacing your computer's motherboard--from deciding whether it's worth the hassle to tweaking the BIOS.

My journey with Linux, since 2003, has been a roller-coaster ride with its fair share of bumps. But I have finally settled down with one of the best distros around, Yoper, which stands out for features like usability, available packages, hardware detection, and support.

One of the highlights of my trip to Salt lake City last month for BrainShare 2005 was the opportunity to interview Miguel de Icaza, a mercurial star of the free software movement who has been responsible for hugely successful projects and also founded his own company with Nat Friedman that was later acquired by Novell. Like everyone else at BrainShare, Miguel was on a tight schedule, but he took time out from preparing a Friday morning keynote to do this interview.

Strong showing in corporate subscriptions boosts revenue by 56 percent in the fourth quarter for the Linux seller.

This article shows how to set up a portal project infrastructure in Rational Application Developer that can be used to perform daily builds using Apache Maven.

The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.3.11 and 5.0.4. These are maintenance releases that in addition to fixing over 70 non-critical bugs, address several security issues. The addressed security issues include fixes to the exif and fbsql extensions, as well as fixes to unserialize(), swf_definepoly() and getimagesize().

Learn about binary compatibility as it relates to the different operating environments that run on Linux on POWER. Learn about new technologies that can provide performance enhancements for a Linux on POWER application, and follow steps to ensure binary compatibility across multiple distributions in the future.

In this series we'll give tips and observations on using a current generation WiFi enabled PDA with Linux desktops and servers. The plan is to save you some research time by showing you what has worked for us, using a standard off-the-shelf PDA and a Linux-based operation.

Google Blog is reporting that Google is now faster on Firefox and Gecko-based browsers. Google has started using prefetching to start downloading top results even before the user clicks on them. This allows the user to view search results faster. Prefetching is not available on Internet Explorer and other non-mozilla browsers.

Foresight Desktop Linux is a young distribution that distinguishes itself by its unique package management system. While still in pre-release status, Tuxme took a brief look at its features and voiced our first impressions. Read on to find out more.

pmacct is a small set of tools to account and aggregate IPv4 and IPv6 traffic; aggregation revolves around the key concept of communication primitives which may be arbitrarily combined to form complex aggregation methods; data is collected either using libpcap or through Cisco NetFlow v1/v5/v9. Aggregates can be stored into memory tables and SQL databases.

Foreword -- This whitepaper by FSMLabs product manager Matt Sherer looks at "VxIT," a VxWorks emulation layer that aims to provide developers with a strategy for transitioning VxWorks applications to real-time Linux. In particular, it shows how real-time VxWorks applications running under VxIT can transparently access the Linux filesystem.

Although Jabber is often discussed as if it were a single server or client, it is actually a set of streaming XML protocols and technologies containing a codebase from which all manners of instant messaging (IM) servers and clients are built. Jabber is a development platform for customizing and extending IM products adhering to the open and freely available Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

Site deploys Linux-based business-intelligence tools to improve efficiency of its financial budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

Daffodil Software a leading provider of java based database solutions today announced the release of version 4.1 of its popular Java database - Daffodil DB.

Increasingly, users of blogs and tech-oriented sites are using Firefox. They're embracing Firefox at a far faster pace than Internet users more broadly.

Want to move to Linux in your business, but waiting because you use QuickBooks on Windows? You don't have to wait any longer...