About Linux: Linux Founder Declared Millennium Technology Prize

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux The Nobel Prize equivalent for technology achievements has been awarded for the Linux operating system and a new stem cell derivation method. Linux Founder Declared Millennium Technology Prize Laureate Our hero Linus Torwalds, the Linux Founder, is one of two recipients of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, which is sponsored by the Technology Academy Finland... Read more Xming Updated The remote access and remote desktop system Xming, which provides easy set-up of X-windows on your Microsoft Windows system with connectivity to Linux servers, has been updated to version 7.5.0.47... Read more Parted Magic 2012_04_21 The Linux-based disk partitioning package Parted Magic has been updated to version 2012_04_21. This release runs on the 3.2.15 Linux kernel and brings numerous updates of the partitioning and recovery tools that make up this package... Read more Linux Ads Prize Competitions Prize Contest Contest Prize Prize Contest Entries Featured Articles   More from About.com Financial Emergencies An unexpected change in your financial situation can be incredibly stressful. Here's how to cope. More> Retirement Planning Learn the top five things you need to do in order to start building a retirement nest egg. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2012 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement

About Linux: Solr and Lucene Version 3.6

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux Fast and accurate text search has become ubiquitous in cyberspace. We have come to expect search functions with virtually instantaneous response on most commonly used applications. Much of this functionality is now implemented with the open source packages Solr and Lucene. Text Search Software Solr and Lucene Version 3.6 The Java-based open source full text search tools Solr and Lucene have been updated and are now compatible with Java 7. Lucene is a widely used full text search engine, and Solr a search platform that is based on Lucene... Read more Dia - Free Alternative to Visio With Dia you can quickly draw various types of diagrams, such as flow charts, UML diagrams, and entity relationship diagrams. It can't really compete with Microsoft Visio in terms of the range of diagram templates, but it has the most commonly used ones... Read more MobaXterm 4.4 The latest release improves start-up time, adds new capabilities, and removes bugs. MobaXterm is a nice tool for remotely accessing a Linux server or workstation from a local Microsoft Windows computer... Read more Linux Ads Linux Desktop Linux Windows 7 Visio Drawing Free Search Engine Linux Software Featured Articles   More from About.com Financial Emergencies An unexpected change in your financial situation can be incredibly stressful. Here's how to cope. More> Retirement Planning Learn the top five things you need to do in order to start building a retirement nest egg. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2012 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement

About Linux: Minecraft on Linux

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux Do you like to explore uncharted territory and caves, go where no man has gone before? Do you like to create new arbitrarily large and complex architectures and machines using elementary building blocks? You are not alone. Minecraft on Linux The 3D construction and simulation game Minecraft has become enormously popular on the Windows platform. But since it is implemented in Java in can also be run on Linux and Mac OS X... Read more Joomla 2.5.4 The latest update fixes a couple of security issues related to access to administrative information and possible cross-site scripting attacks. Joomla is a content management system (CMS) implemented in PHP and MySQL that includes many useful features... Read more Worker 2.19.2 Released Worker is an advanced configurable two-pane file manager for Linux that distinguishes itself through advance features such as file categorization based on extension as well as content. Read more Linux Ads Linux Desktop Linux System Linux Linux OS Templates for Joomla Featured Articles   More from About.com Financial Emergencies An unexpected change in your financial situation can be incredibly stressful. Here's how to cope. More> Retirement Planning Learn the top five things you need to do in order to start building a retirement nest egg. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2012 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement

About Linux: Linux Unstoppable

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Linux Linux Get Started Explore Linux Become a Guru From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux Frequently cited statistics about the market share of Linux on the desktop have put the percentage at around 1%. However, this number comes from analyses provided by Net Applications and is likely not representative of all desktop users. A more accurate number comes from the Wikimedia Foundation, which shows the percentage of Linux on the desktop at 4.9% for February 2012. Red Hat Donates to Organizations Supporting Open Source For more than a decade Red Hat has steadily increased revenue and profit, and recently announced that it crossed the $1 billion revenue milestone, which makes it the first Linux and Open Source company to achieve this level of success. In order to celebrate the occasion, Red Hat decided to donate $100,000 to the "future of open source"... Read more Sauerbraten - First Person Shooter with Dynamic Map Editing Sauerbraten is a popular free and open source computer game for Linux. It is a "First Person Shooter", that is, when you play it you see the world of the game from the perspective of the character that you control, giving you the impression of moving in the 3-dimensional space created by the game. The main activity of this character is running around in a fantastic world and shooting enemies or evil creatures... Read more Terminate Processes With ps And kill What can you do when processes wear out their welcome and stick around longer than you would like them to? This article introduces the commands ps and kill. Combined, they are the Arnold Schwarzenegger equivalent among the Linux commands... Read more Linux Ads Linux Software Linux Desktop Linux Linux OS Linux Desktop OS Featured Articles   More from About.com Financial Emergencies An unexpected change in your financial situation can be incredibly stressful. Here's how to cope. More> Retirement Planning Learn the top five things you need to do in order to start building a retirement nest egg. More> This newsletter is written by: Juergen Haas Linux Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2012 About.com   Must Reads Linux Desktop 101 Linux Glossary Linux Commands Shell Commands Linux Games   Follow me on: Advertisement