But I'm going to make an even bolder prediction. I'm going to predict that you, personally, will be using a tablet within 18 months.

Mantis is that rare bug-tracking program for small projects that is neither too bloated nor too featureless. It's an excellent choice for developers who need a bug tracker that the average computer user can use. Its clean interface and numerous features make bug tracking fast and easy.

Red Hat today announced the release of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the first release of the systems management tool built from the Spacewalk open source project.

If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and confirm delivery of a letter or package, you’ve used the U.S. Postal Service’s Product Tracking System (PTS) and probably not known it. And you might not have noticed either when USPS moved the system to open source.

Jokosher is an Open Source Multi Track Audio Editing Software. Could be used in creating Audio record, Podcasts. Some of the features are : 1) Multi-track volume mixing with VU sliders. 2) Import audio (Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WAV and anything else supported by GStreamer) into your projects. 3) Export to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV and anything else GStreamer supports.

Red Hat have announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite and Proxy, the companies solution for on site systems management. The announcement was made at the Red Hat Summit currently taking place in Chicago.

CaptiveWorks has announced a Linux IP set-top box (STB) and digital video broadcast receiver that offers FTA satellite HD video reception, and media center features. The CW-4000HD Linux Media Center is based on Gentoo Linux and other open source projects, says the company.

KDE have released version 4.8 of their free and open source software bundle. It provides many new features, improved stability and increased performance. Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, and the redesign of power management.

This is part 4 of a multi-part article. Part 1 discusses the importance of complex passwords and also discusses some ways to create them in Linux. Part 2 covers the KeepassX, a program with a very nice graphical user interface. In part 3, takes a look at the gpass program which is a nice graphical user interface for the gnome desktop (will work on others too), part 4 takes a look at the command line pwsafe. pwsafe is a unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases.