Tin Hat is a Linux distribution derived from hardened Gentoo which aims to provide a very secure, stable and fast Desktop environment that lives purely in RAM.

Late yesterday, Pawe? Jakub Dawidek committed HAST to HEAD, marking the completion of this Foundation sponsored project. We asked Pawel to write a few words about the project. He says: HAST is ready!

One of the key responsibilities of a system administrator is to ensure the safety of an organisation's computer data. This is a critical task for any organisation, given that the loss of important data could have profound implications on its future prosperity.

Due to set of CSs for GRUB 2 Support written by Ian Campbell usual sharing image devices between Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server HVM and PV Guests appears available at Xen-4.0 Linux Dom0. Fedora 12 has been selected due to presence of Libvirt 0.7.1 providing virt-install and virt-manager utilities.

The Twitter microblogging service has created a Twitter loves open source page, listing the projects it has released or contributed to. The page lists programs written in Ruby, Scala, Java and C/C++ and some tools.

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If the concept of cloud storage and applications is appealing, but not the idea of handing control of your data over to someone else, then why not set up your own little cloud? Dmitri Popov shows us how with Tonido.

One of Linux's strengths is its cross-platform nature: you can run it on x86, x86-64, SPARC, PowerPC, and many other central processing units (CPUs). This wealth of hardware choices poses a challenge for software developers, though. Ensuring that software compiles, and runs correctly, on all platforms can be difficult. The use of the QEMU package can help ease this burden.