This month, we look at free projects as a replacement for Flash and Java. Both Flash and Java are so widespread that you can’t realistically do without them, so it’s a pity that both are released under proprietary licenses. The community has started to remedy the situation.

Charly may be a traditionalist with sync-unfriendly duplicate home directories, but a little utility called Unison helps keep his data consistent . This month you’ll learn why Rsync sometimes isn’t enough.

Running server systems in virtual environments is a popular approach, but the technology offers benefits to desktop users. In this article, we investigate some virtual desktop alternatives.

Liferay is a powerful and easily customizable CMS that is ideal for community collaboration – once you get it configured.

Microformats are simple HTML tags that reveal information about web data. We'll show you how to take advantage of this handy technology.

The recent discussion concerning the future of Mozilla Thunderbird is one example of the needs of a corporation vs. those of the user community.

The second major release since SUSE became a community project is looking good. We took openSUSE 11.0 for a test ride.