Yesterday I discussed Beagle and Tracker with regards to their preferences settings, the time to index a collection of both HTML and PDF files, and how to extract information from individual files. In this article I'll go over the interfaces used to submit queries and the syntax used for complex queries for both projects.

I just wanted to extended a huge “thank you!” to all of the Ubuntu community :) Today Ubuntu won the “Best Desktop Solution” Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2008 in San Francisco, California for a second consecutive year.

Boasting over 6,800,000 downloads and counting, this add-on creates a full featured FTP client within Firefox that rivals standalone applications such as Filezilla or SmartFTP. This add-on is maintained regularly, with a few critical bug fixes released just last week.

Maintaining and adding new features to legacy systems developed using C/C++ is a daunting task. Fortunately, doxygen—a documentation system for the C/C++, Java™, Python, and other programming languages—can help. Discover the features of doxygen in the context of projects using C/C++ as well as how to document code using doxygen-defined tags.

IBM is expanding its Linux solution set today with a new initiative together with Red Hat, Novell and Ubuntu for Microsoft-free PCs.

Optimists say the best things in life are free; realists say yes, but anything that's free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source (define) software.

When the long-awaited Gentoo 2008.0 release finally hit mirrors last month, the two largest groups of users found themselves out of luck: x86 users discovered that their live CD wouldn't copy the kernel during install, and the AMD64 image wouldn't fit onto a standard CD-ROM. This was not a great start for a distribution whose comeback may rest upon this release.