Adobe Photoshop is a great product. I have been using it since 2003 and I simply love its functionality and ease of use. If there is anything to complaint about, then it has to be the high cost (US$649) involved in buying the software.

In this article, Mark Rais shares a list of those essential networking commands every beginning Linux administrator needs to know. Parts of this article originally appeared in the Linux+DVD Magazine, issue 1/2008.

KRunner in 4.0.x was not meant to be a production interface. Just under the wire for the feature freeze, KDE team managed to get a new user interface that they've been working on for KDE 4.1. It provides a much nicer experience including more speed, solid stability, better usability, more configurability and fun eye candy.

There was some interesting discussion following my post last week asking whether there is a growing rift between commercial open source software vendors and some aspects of the open source user community.

Protecting servers by placing them behind a firewall is a best-practice methodology for systems administrators, but it's not a panacea: those systems are still visible to network scanners such as nmap and nessus.

Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.

Open Source City offers a programme of workshops, masterclasses, talks and concerts that shed light on the growing impact of Free Software on the creative practices of today, in particular in media art and music. The event programme and workshop booking form are available now.

The recently appointed head of Microsoft's global Linux and open source team hopes the company will have a clear and comprehensible open source strategy by 2015.