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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.

Kludgets lets you run OS X widgets on your Windows desktop. It's an open source project built on Webkit and Nokia's QT framework.

OpenOffice 3.1: The new features. Instant eye catchers are improved anti-aliasing for graphics, better chart functionality, and the new text highlighting in Writer.

12 of the best free Linux news aggregators. Tools for KDE, GNOME and more.

Education lessons for open source. If the school is running open source, that's what the students will learn.

Auto-update to the latest builds of Firefox Minefield. Daily builds have the latest bug-fixes, enhancements and test options for this speedy version of the browser.

In my travels, I discovered David Zeuthen's informative peek at DeviceKit (and its use with and in lieu of HAL) in the upcoming release of Fedora 11.

Zeuthen says that while the new storage device handling stack is implemented in Fedora's GNOME 2.26 desktop configuration, it should be appearing in its entirety in the upstream GNOME 2.28 release. The DeviceKit daemon modernizes and adds to many of the features and functions of the tried and true HAL daemon.

I've noticed, as I get older, time seems to go exponentially faster. Unfortunately, this meant high school lasted an eternity, and I'm burning through my thirties at warp speed. Some events make me more aware of this than others -- it seems like it was only last week that Fedora 10 made its first mark upon the world.

But no, another release cycle has nearly come full circle, and today the Fedora Project announced the Preview Release of Fedora 11 (codenamed Leonidas). This preview will be followed by a release candidate (scheduled for a May 12 appearance), with the final version hitting the streets on May 26.

So what new features can we expect to see in Fedora 11?

Churning out an x.0 software release must be akin to becoming a new parent -- the event exudes promise, joy, and hope, yet is simultaneously humbling, exhausting, and terror-inducing. While it isn't realistically possible to plan out detailed roadmaps for your children's long-term future, it's crucial to do so for a software project. While whether the presence of a carefully planned roadmap makes progress more or less stressful depends largely on who you ask and at what point you're asking, a project with clearly outlined goals and direction has a much better shot at sustained developer interest and solid releases.

Many projects grapple with this, and as GNOME pushes towards its 3.0 milestone, the GNOME Release Team talks about the voyage to this point -- and how best to travel forward from where it currently stands.

GNOME 2.26's 5 best features. It has solid Exchange/Outlook mail compatibility, improved CD/DVD burning, better support for multiple monitors, and more.

Is Ballmer conceding victory to Linux netbooks? He acknowledges that buyers are extra sensitive to prices now.

French police switch from Windows to Linux. Department cuts costs by 70 percent.

Sun deal could make IBM unbeatable in Unix server market. It would give IBM nearly two-thirds share of the Unix systems business.

Red Hat's JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 - Portfolio Edition is now available. It adds Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services Platforms.

Yesterday, the GNOME Project released the latest version of its desktop, GNOME 2.26. The new release incorporates the usual bug fixes and numerous accessibility and application improvements -- including updates to the GNOME Developer Platform and support for 48 languages.

Some of the notable new desktop features include updates to Evolution. The mail and groupware suite is better able to communicate with Exchange servers, as it adds support for both MAPI and SOAP protocols. The Brasero media burner, the Epiphany browser, the Orca screenreader, Empathy, and the GNOME Media Player have all seen signficant feature enhancements. The utilities for managing multiple desktops, pulse-audio, and fingerprint readers have also been updated.

One of the goals put forth for Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope at the last Developer Summit, the development of a unified, hands-off notification display, has finally made an appearance in the testing release, according to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth.

The new notification display is designed to behave similarly regardless of desktop environment, and deliver notifications in an non-intrusive manner. An overview of what Shuttleworth calls attention-management guidelines is outlined on the Ubuntu wiki, describing how to design notifications that get the user's attention, inform, and then effortlessly get out of the way.

The development team working in this area is aware of at least 35 applications that need extra attention to work well with the new system, and its current focus is to address these issues and identify other applications with similar quirks.

Linux vs. Windows: Which is a better web host?.....

Firefox 3.1 beta 3 now due Feb 2.....

Two monitors = 44 percent increase in productivity.....

GNOME project launches Adopt a Hacker initiative.....

Step-by-step: Migrating your desktop from Windows To Linux.....

IT Salary 2009: Survey says modest declines.....

Top tips for GIMP, Gmail, Linux, and GNOME.....and more tips here....

12 handy tips for Linux-based netbooks.....and more here...

How to use a G1 Android handset as a wireless mouse and keyboard...

The future of Compiz in question.....

Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share.....