Calling All Contributors: Community Summit 2012

Each year, the WordPress core development team meets in person for a week to work together and discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming year. As annual events go, it’s easily my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love attending WordCamps and local WordPress meetups (which are awesome and you should try to attend [...]

Blender 2.63a update release

Thanks to 100s of bugreports we’ve done over a 100 fixes in just 2 weeks; enough to deserve a…

Wine release 1.5.4

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – A new DirectSound resampler. – A Negotiate authentication provider. – OpenGL support in the DIB engine. – Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies. – Support routines for Internationalized Domain Names. – Various bug fixes. The source [...]

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (LAMP)

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL su…

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze

mylvmbackup
is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM’s
snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a
read lock on all tables and flus…

Live stream from film set of Mango Open Movie

Check the blog for live streams, pictures and reports from the film studio crew. Open Set Filming -…

The Warby Parker Story: Brought to you (on video) by Magento

Warby Parker, a company that sells prescription eyewear for $95 and donates a pair of glasses to someone in need for each pair sold, is one of the hottest start-ups around.

What began as a side project for a couple of full-time students quickly …

Cloud Storage Options for Linux Users: Now’s the Time

One of the biggest stories of this week was Google’s announcement of its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage solution. You can sign up for 5GB of free storage from Google, use it efficiently with your Android device, and find out more about it here. However, many Linux users were more than annoyed that the cloud [...]

Electronic Arts At Ubuntu Summit; Linux Games Coming?

The news has been quick to spread today that Electronic Arts will be making a brief presentation at the Ubuntu Developer Summit next week…
Read more at Phoronix

XCP in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS:

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS now includes support for the Xen Hypervisor (version 4.1.2), Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) packages and XCP OpenStack plug-ins
Read more ….

== PostgreSQL Weekly News – May 06 2012 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News – May 06 2012 == PostgreSQL conference China 2012 will be on June 14-17, 2012 in Beijing. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgconfchina2012 PostgreSQL Magazine #01 is out now. http://pgmag.org/01/ PostgreSQL Turkey User Group is organizing 2nd Turkish PostgreSQL Conference in Istanbul, on May 12, 2012. Magnus Hagander will be giving the keynote. Please register for [...]

OpenOffice Moving to Sourceforge

There was a time when I would go to Sourceforge first to find any open source project. That hasn’t been the case in years for me, as first Google Code and more recently GitHub have become the primary places for me (and many others) to find and host open source projects. That’s why I was [...]

LibreOffice 3.4 Writer Guide published

Individual chapters and the full book are available on the wiki. A printed copy can be purchased here. Other books for v3.4 (Draw Guide, Impress Guide, Calc Guide, Math Guide) in various stages of completion are also on that wiki page. More help is always welcome.

GIMP 2.8 released

We are happy to announce immediate availability of GIMP 2.8 — a new stable version of GNU Image Manipulation Program that culminates 3.5 years of exciting work. With this version we are introducing some long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced brush dynamics and the much desired optional single-window mode. We also started [...]

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.3

Record number of new contributors + 10 Google Summer of Code projects Berlin, May 2, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.3, the fourth version of the 3.5 family. LibreOffice 3.5.3 provides additional stability to corporate and individual users of the best free office suite ever. “In April 2012, 34 new developers contributed code [...]

How to Upgrade to Gimp 2.8 in Ubuntu

Gimp users, rejoice! After 3.5 years of development, Gimp 2.8 has finally arrived. This version of Gimp brings a plethora of changes and improvement, making Gimp a even better image editing software than its previous version.
Read more ….

Drupal.org Scheduled Downtime Monday, May 7, 5:00 PDT (May 8, 00:00 UTC)

Drupal.org and its sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, etc) will be going down for 20 minutes Monday, May 7, 5:00 PDT (May 8, 00:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to upgrade our single sign on system. Please follow the @drupal_inf…

‘What Happens at Magento, Stays at Magento’… Highlights of Imagine 2012

For those of you who joined us in Las Vegas for the Imagine 2012 conference, we hope all 1300 of you made it back to your 35 respective countries, safe and sound. For those of you who weren’t able to join us this year, we’re sorry we missed you a…

KDE Ships May Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform

KDE Ships May Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform May 4, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.3 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in [...]

Achieving eCommerce Success – A Forum for Merchants

eCommerce Forums are coming to a city near you!
eCommerce is no longer an alternate sales channel – it’s a vital element in any retail sales strategy. We are holding forums in cities around the world to meet with merchants and discuss what is possible…