Everyone who's ever owned a computer has at one time or another found a need to play some kind of multimedia file, play a cd or dvd, or watch a video on their computer. KDE provides a list of built in applications that allow you to do that. While they won't cover all your needs, they do cover a lot. So let's look at each of these and what they offer you.

The next major release of FreeBSD, version 7, is one of the most significant so far, with amount of new technologies and improvement largest since introduction of 5.0. Since constantly searching the mailing lists for important changes can be a bit tedious, I've created this (frequently updated) page to list some of the more interesting new things in one place.

This article shows how ridiculous Microsoft's licensing policies are in regard to running Windows on virtual machines. It also shows how difficult Microsoft's support people can be. You won't have these problems with free software

Procedure for creating a CSR on postfix MTA is just like web server. You need to use OpenSSL which is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocols and related cryptography standards under Linux / UNIX.

I stood in line for the Wal-Mart Special $379 Compaq Presario V5000 CTO Notebook PC last year (Black Friday deal). It was a true bargain, you couldn't ask more for a laptop.

Zabbix is a solution for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. With Zabbix, you can monitor multiple servers at a time, using a Zabbix server that comes with a web interface (that is used to configure Zabbix and holds the graphs of your systems) and Zabbix agents that are installed on the systems to be monitored.

The information displayed by Google is at least interesting because the Mountain View giant is described as a company that owns 3500 computers equipped with Linux platforms. As Google Blogoscoped reports, the current number of Google's computers is not known but the users are talking about hundreds of thousands.

After recently putting together a list of 11 great games in Ubuntu, a few concerned readers politely suggested games that should have been on that list. As a result, I discovered many games I hadn’t even heard of, but turned out to be fun