The Italian region Puglia will make the use of open source software and open standards mandatory for its public administrations. A law, adopted on 2 December by the regional administration, instructs regional and local public administrations to use open formats for the electronic disseminations of documents, and wherever possible use free and open source software.

You can give user based web pages in your apache based server. Follow the simple steps shown below after installing apache.

$ cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
$ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/userdir.conf userdir.conf
$ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/userdir.load userdir.load
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Hopefully, this information will help counter much of the fear that our government's so-called "war" against Wikileaks has generated.

Linux Mint is a refreshing change from a long series of too green desktops. While the color was used to varying effects in previous releases, becoming a little boring of late, Julia introduces a more moderate, toned down gray-and-green theme that looks classy and even surpasses openSUSE.

Jolicloud 1.1 is the latest stable release of Jolicloud, the cloud-based, Ubuntu-based distribution. Other than being a cloud-based distribution, the most distinctive feature of Jolicloud is the netbook-optimzed interface, which is one of five netbook-optimized interfaces available on Linux and BSD distributions.

La ĝisdatigoj korektas malsekurojn kaj malstabilojn, kaj krome blanklistigas Iranan perslingvan retregionon kaj malfaras ŝanĝon kaŭzintan problemon ĉe retaĵoj de Havaja eduksistemo.

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 14 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver.

n July of 2008, the Linux Foundation started the process for standardizing Linux with the Linux Standards Base 4.0 spec.This week, after a couple years of official availability the Linux Foundation is set to formally announce that all of the leading commercial Linux vendors have now certified to LSB 4.0.