John Yerhot primarily a Ruby on Rails developer has come out with a series of screencasts for Unix, Linux and Open Source Software users at FOSSCasts.

AllMyApps is a great resource to install popular applications. Simply keep adding the apps you like to a list and then install the whole list with a single click.

The Ubuntu Open Week commences from 2nd November to 6th November. The Ubuntu Open Week is an initiative taken to enable the Ubuntu community members to participate in the development of Ubuntu.

Today comes a good news for those bitten with the linux bug. The Fedora Foundation has released the first and the last Beta for Fedora 12, its mainstream consumer linux distro.

Based on the webkit engine, Uzbl forms the base for a totally customizable browser. It passes the acid 3 test with a perfect 100/100 score. Uzbl can be used on Ubuntu and other Linux based PCs.

Appnr is a great resource to find useful Ubuntu applications. Each application is accompanied by screen shots, specifications and user-ratings so you have enough information before downloading.

Today happens to be a relatively active day for Linux testers. Earlier in the day, Milestone 8 for Novell’s openSUSE 11.2 was released to the public for testing. The linux variant has got various bug fixes and feature additions, though it’s worth noting that it is a development build and is recommended only for those who can endure a few bugs and glitches here and there.

Damn Small Linux is the smallest and lightest Linux distro available on the internet. For a mere 50 MB users can use Damn Small Linux right off the CD (live CD) for a full fledged Linux experience. With its great functionality and small download size you cannot go wrong with Damn Small Linux

Canonical has announced a new type of support for enterprises running Ubuntu called Premium Service Engineers. The Premium Service Engineers will act as support engineers with Ubuntu expertise to guide and give personalized support to Enterprises

Clonezilla is a software which lets us create clone images of partitions. The software is actually a Debian based bootable Linux with support for cloning partitions and disks. It includes the ntfsclone, partclone and partimage softwares along with the distro.

Launchy is a revolutionary open source application available for both Linux and Windows. It is a real time keystroke launcher for searching through installed programs and system paths for executables specific to the system and executing them.

Skype 2.1 Beta for Linux came out this week. Users of the popular VoIP application on the Linux platform had been demanding video support since like – ages. They may rejoice now as this Beta release features native video call support, among several other features.

Changing the look of your Gnome Desktop can be quite cumbersome. The best way to do it is by using a tool called gnome-art-ng.

Game Emulators let you play games which had been developed for other hardwares. Learn how to install two of the most popular open source game emulators in linux. Download and play old computer games using open source Game Emulators on Linux

While the internet is abuzz with news of Windows 7 and OS X Snow Leopard releases, do not mistake the open source world to be dilly-dallying. Both Fedora and openSuse teams pushed updates recently for their development versions. Fedora got one step closer to its next release, Fedora 12 with its Alpha build out now and openSUSE marched ahead with its version 11.6’s milestone 6 released.