Former LXer editor-in-Chief launches Free Software News site - website and office powered by Free Software.

Recently, in the Xing forums (Xing.com), a moderator asked who might be willing to share their success stories involving Free/Open Source Software. Sanjay Arora gave Blue GNU permission to share his company's experience, as posted in the forum. It is interesting because the company has a policy against using non-FOSS. It is published here in its entirety.

This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Amarok. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux. Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as Amarok that can handle the task.

According to this story, the Allahabad High Court has rolled out a new website, as well as deploying 15,000 laptops

MemCached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. In this article I explain how you can very easily install it and make it avaible in PHP.

If your project is switching over to the GNU General Public License v3, post a comment to my blog to let me know. It would be interesting to see which projects will become early adopters. So far, Samba and 35 other projects either currently are, or will soon be, released under the GNU GPLv3.

Zabbix is a solution for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. With Zabbix, you can monitor multiple servers at a time, using a Zabbix server that comes with a web interface (that is used to configure Zabbix and holds the graphs of your systems) and Zabbix agents that are installed on the systems to be monitored. The Zabbix agents deliver the desired data to the Zabbix server. This tutorial shows how you can install the Zabbix server and agent on a Debian Etch system.

This article describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

According to the Samba Project's website, the team is moving to the GNU GPLv3.

This tutorial shows how you can use Compiz, Beryl, and Metisse on a Mandriva 2007 Spring (Mandriva 2007.1) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Compiz, Beryl, and Metisse, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube (although the desktop cube is not available on Metisse).

This article shows how to install and configure ModSecurity (version 2) for use with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. ModSecurity is an Apache module that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications. It aims at shielding web applications from known and unknown attacks, such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, path traversal attacks, etc.

According to Dell's blog, Direct2Dell, they will be expanding their Ubuntu offering to small business users and to more countries in the near future. And they even welcomed the possibility of competition from Hewlitt-Packard.

Yesterday was Independence Day here in the United States. It was a day to celebrate our independence from England, a day to celebrate the freedoms we citizens generally enjoy. July 4th, 2007 also fell just a few short days after the Free Software Foundation released the third version of the GNU General Public License - a document that seeks to ensure the freedom of software users everywhere.

You should give Glyn Moody's blog about The Real Meaning of GNU GPLv3 a read.

From the site: World-renowned activist, author and free software developer Richard Stallman will speak tomorrow at the University of Toronto Missi

Carla Schroder writes: In part 1 I introduced you fine readers to my new obsession, digital SLR cameras. If you're used to compact point-and-shoot digital cameras, and you're thinking of making the move to a DSLR, there are several important points to keep in mind:

Forget search wars. Software market is hotting up for action, as open source community and Microsoft lock horns once again

Aaron Tan reports that Sri Lanka to discuss open source on Windows.

It has been frequently debated whether businesses can succeed using a strictly Free/Open Source business model, and what kinds of businesses can succeed using only Free/Open Source Software.