Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. But when you really start getting down to business, you will find there are features tucked away in this software that you may not have known existed.

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is an open source tool for network scanning and security auditing. This intro gives you some basic and interesting Nmap usages with examples on a GNU/Linux system.

KDE Community Ships Third Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

eee-control is an easy-to-use utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux. It can toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) on and off, lets you configure all hardware hotkeys, enables aggressive powersaving, and more.

If all goes according to plan, Ubuntu 10.10 will sport Gnome 3, which represents a radical overhaul of Ubuntu's default graphical user interface in the form of Gnome Shell, when it debuts a year from now.  In order get a taste of what this desktop of the future will look like, I've spent the last few days using the development version.  Here's what I've found.

The first official Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta release is now available, bringing with it a whole bunch of improvements to the open source web browser. It's also (to my naked eye) missing a few features that I had initially expected to see in Firefox 3.6.

Do you want your Internet speed to fly through the roof? I bet you do. Here are a couple of simple ways to get a nice Internet speed boost.

Like a digital Swiss Army knife, these are the Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them.