The GNOME Foundation announced today that Google and Motorola have joined the organization's advisory board and will sponsor ongoing development of the open source desktop environment.

There are many ways to share files with teams of people, but few require only a Web browser for access and let you choose from tens of different ways of authenticating user access to the files.

Bootsplash can be a simple visualisation of the scrolling boot messages in the console, but it can also present graphics or some combinations of both.For some reason there is a bug in the new version (8.10 Intrepid Ibex) that will not let you change this.

We then spoke about why people in general and students in particular should
contribute to Free Software and what are its values and advantages. Then we
gave a brief overview of what we had planned for the day. Later we took each
of those topics in detail and covered it in sufficient depth I feel. We described
about concepts of Revision Control System, Bug Trackers, other development

A low-vision (or blind) person explains the dangers of the Novell/Microsoft deal

"Hi, I just wanted to tell you that the Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo forums might be on its way to become active again:

- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-41939.html ..."

You may be faced with a situation in which you must figure out who has permissions to a file or directory and what those permissions are. This sounds simple enough. It really is not as simple as it may sound, here is an example. You view the contents of the /var/www (/var/www/html in CentOS) directory where your web site content is found and you see a directory that looks like this:
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