Someone in the comments asked me to address the issue as to why we don’t yet have commonly requested functionality such as minimized window previews and input redirection. This post will address this and some of the solutions that we may have in the future.

Hear that clock ticking? There are only nine days left to the release of Ubuntu 9.10.

PPA’s (Personal Package Archives) are a great way to automatically stay up-to-date with your favourite applications and packages. Below are my top ten recommendations for Ubuntu users.

This tutorial will give some useful pdf editing tools for ubuntu users.

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.04 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

The last developer milestone ( DEV300m60) of OpenOffice.org has been released. The next version of OpenOffice.org 3.2 has more than 42 features and 167 enhancements . The final version is expected to be available at the end of November 2009.

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more.

Security holes in numerous PDF applications allow attackers to infect systems with malware. Linux distributor Red Hat has already released new packages for these applications, and other distributors are likely to follow soon.