This howto shows you how to do a multi-site Drupal install on Ubuntu. It also covers how to layout your directories for ease of maintenance, and how to ensure that you can update Drupal easily from CVS.

This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with gtkpod (a graphical user interface for Apple’s iPod). It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, how you can delete files on the iPod, and how you can create and modify playlists. Normally, Apple’s iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux. Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as gtkpod that can handle the task.

The chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced the availability of Thinkpad notebooks with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED 10) preinstalled for Q4 2007, according to the german news site heise.de.

Since this Thursday the first Beta release for KDE 4.0 is available. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Some of the programmes received additional features and the usability has been improved. One highlight is the geographical application Marble showing a spherical earth, which you can zoom and rotate similar to goolge earth. The feature freeze for applications will follow with the second Beta-Release. Until then the developers have time to add new functions to their programms and to to adapt them to the new library interface.

This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.0 server. From the Suhosin project page: “Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against bufferoverflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections.”

With this release, we introduce an AMD64 built image as well a standard x86 build. Should there be enough demand for a PPC build, we will do one of this for the next alpha. Release announcement

The openSUSE Build Service generates .ymp files from now on, which can be used with Benjamin Weber’s One Click Install YaST Module.

This module takes care that all required repositories get used for installation and installs a predefined set of packages. You need no root permissions just to browse the content of a .ymp file.

“Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the *beta* release of 5.1 (kernel-2.6.18-36.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products including” more…

Luke Claes presents the development goals for the upcoming DEBIAN release “Lenny” on the DEBIAN development mailinglist. DEBIAN Lenny will support IPv6, NFSv4, LFS and include the KDE4 desktop.

OpenOffice programmer Kai Ahrens talks in his blog about plans from SUN to integrate a PDF import filter in OpenOffice.