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Tutorial: Setup and configuration of a virtual machine in VirtualBox. Run multiple operating systems simultaneously with Sun's virtualization tool.

Can Linux beat the bloat? Linus Torvalds shocked the group at LinuxCon recently with three words: Linux is bloated.

Shuttleworth: Don't give up on the Linux desktop. Canonical's founder sees bright things ahead for desktop Linux.

A new OLPC laptop dual-boots Sugar and the GNOME desktop. Check out a video of the new system.

Moblin gets its own app store. Moblin Garage has arrived, and it's Intel's effort to deliver one place to get Moblin apps.



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Q&A: Visa dips a toe into the Hadoop pool. The company's head of technology strategy weighs in on how it is using Hadoop's powerful data crunching capabilities.

London Stock Exchange platform acquisition ignites open source war of words. Its Microsoft-based tech infrastructure is being replaced by open source tools.

How GNOME and KDE spend their money. Here's a comparison of their quarterly reports.

Does Oracle matter to open source? Once it acquires Sun, Oracle will be the largest sponsor of open source projects that people use every day.

BonitaSoft gets funding. The provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) software announced a first round of funding of $3 million from Ventech and Auriga Partners.



Four GNOME Blogging Clients Worth Noting

As part of our continuing series this week on open source blogging tools, today we're going to take a look at clients created specifically for the GNOME desktop. If you prefer KDE, then check out yesterday's post in the series.

Drivel - This is a very popular blogging client among GNOME users, and with good reason. It's perfect for offline writing and editing, and easily uploads posts with the click of a button. It features integrated spellchecking and will even alert you to HTML errors. Use Drivel with Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, Drupal and more.



Need a Good FOSS App Coded Fast? Offer Up a Bounty

Can commercial software companies and open source foundations successfully advance their software efforts by offering bounties to outside developers? Although Stormy Peters, executive director of the GNOME Foundation, says the GNOME community has had mixed results with bounties and grants, she has an interesting interview up on the topic with Stefano Maffulli,? community manager of mobile open source company Funambol. The interview apparently resulted from Maffuli approaching her about a GNOME-related grant. Maffuli describes bounties and grants as fertile incentives for solid open source software development, and cites a number of specific success stories.