Andy Updegrove writes an article providing an overview of the history of FOSS and its champions, the major philosophical differences that divide FOSS from OSS developers, the multiple licenses under which FOSS is made available, and the principle non-profit institutions that support and promote FOSS.

steganography is the technique used for hiding various data in different type of image and audio files with out changing the basic characteristics of file. Steghide is a utility for steganography. The color- respectivly sample-frequencies are not changed thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.

How many applets are currently on your panel? Only the default ones that Ubuntu brought? Yes, well, I have to tell you something.

Beginner Users I think rarely use su command for looging in as root user . Anyway once they login using su the first reaction from system will be “su: Authentication failure” (that was so for me) Here is how you can solve it.

If your Ubuntu machine is nor working properly after a partial upgrade and have a have broken the system dependencies tree, You can recover it by using a simple command that reinstalls all the installed packages and reconfigures them automatically.This will take a long time to complete.

Here are quick answers to some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQ’s) , by new users , for Karmic Koala:

You can add an ip to an interface after boot using ifconfig.
example: ifconfig rl0 192.168.1.1
But this ip wont last for the next boot.

One of the things I do in my work is custom build desktop computers. While talking to clients, they've all danced around the issue of having Windows 7 installed on their systems, suffice it to say, every Windows user (I built systems for) opted to have WinXP installed? What About Linux?