When Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) launches in April, Zmanda - the open source backup company - will stand next to Canonical in full support of the Linux distribution. I got early details from Zmanda CEO Chander Kant (pictured) today during an extensive conversation in New York City.

Using the xmonad tiling window manger and looking for a way to keep track of your workspaces, the time, and more? This guide shows how you can set up dzen2 as a statusbar with state information from xmonad.

It must have been the first year of desktop Linux when I first played around with it, some time in the late 1990s. In those days we were so primitive we didn't realise that the year of desktop Linux would become an annual celebration.

I have a bit more on Caldera, now calling itself SCO Group, releasing SysV init, with the source, in more products, beyond just OpenLinux Lite which I wrote about the other day.

While you can create and save documents in the OpenDocument format using OpenOffice.org, KWord, or AbiWord, there are other ways to generate ODF files. odtwriter, for example, can help you to quickly convert plain text files formatted using reStructured Text markup into odt (OpenOffice.org Writer-compatible ODF) documents.

Just 3 years after Google first released their Jingle extension for Jabber which they used in their GTalk application it is finally possible to use it on the open source desktop too.

As we prepare for next weeks beta release of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and look back at features included in the Ubuntu Jaunty alpha 6 release, Ubuntu fans can’t help but feel the excitement of another Ubuntu release right around the corner.

I will be installing PCLinux 2009 on one of my computers but I'm going to have to test it more to see if it deserves a space on the hard drive. Since I also use Mac OS X Leopard every once in a while, I decided to install PCLOS 2009 as guest operating system using Parallels Desktop to find out just how well it runs.