Email archiving is an application that accumulates, index and provide quick, searchable access to email messages independent of the users of the system using a couple of different technical methods of implementation...If you are looking for an open source email archiving software, then read on.

The KDE libraries are being methodically reworked into a set of cross platform modules that will be readily available to all Qt developers. The KDE Frameworks, designed as drop-in Qt Addons, will enrich Qt as a development environment with functions that simplify, accelerate and reduce the cost of Qt development.

One of my favourite tools (that I use almost everyday) is PuTTY. I use it both on Windows (very useful because Windows has no SSH client) and on Linux. It is a program that enables SSH connections using a graphical interface. It also allows for the establishment of SSH tunnels as well as omitting some of the restrictions to Internet access.

The 7z (7-Zip) archive format offers good compression ratios and is an open source format. This and the favored 7-Zip graphical file archive tool for Windows have popularized the format.

HP and MIT have formed an independent organization to support the work of digital archivists who use the DSpace open source archiving software.

This is to announce tar 1.24, a new stable release of GNU tar (an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile). This release fixes several bugs found in the previous 1.23. Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and suggestions. Special thanks to Paul Eggert for his hard work on this release.

On Unix platform, tar command is the primary archiving utility. Understanding various tar command options will help you master the archive file manipulation.

New users tend to flock to distributions with easy to use installation programs, that is, to distributions with graphical installers. Some people will probably disagree with that statement, but most users feel more at home with a point-and-click interface, than with a terminal (console) program.

This is part 4 of a multi-part article. Part 1 discusses the importance of complex passwords and also discusses some ways to create them in Linux. Part 2 covers the KeepassX, a program with a very nice graphical user interface. In part 3, takes a look at the gpass program which is a nice graphical user interface for the gnome desktop (will work on others too), part 4 takes a look at the command line pwsafe. pwsafe is a unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases.