I'm glad to announce that PeaZip 4.4 was released a few days ago.
Archive creation and extraction interfaces were made simpler and should display correctly with large fonts used in some distributions / versions.

Downloads, change log, and documentation on http://www.peazip.org
Packages, DEB, RPM, and TGZ, are compiled for GTK2 (recommended) and Qt, both works on Gnome and KDE, the application is desktop neutral.
It is available a portable version, TAR.GZ, that does not need to be installed and does not modify the system.

Any help in improving existing localizations is very welcome, package for translators is http://peazip-translations.googlecod...anslations.zip

There is currently a "We the People" petition up on the White House site to increase the US government's use of free and open source software as a cost cutting measure. It's dangerously low on signatures right now, but you have until the end of the month to add your name to the count.

While this would certainly cut government spending (at least, in the long run) we should also be aiming to get more secure, stable, and transparent software in all branches of government. I think in this case, cost is a secondary issue.

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/02/...free-software/

With so many new open source projects hitting the mainstream, it's more important than ever to understand the fundamental differences between free software and open source, and what that means for the end user.

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/01/...free-software/

We'd like to revive the LQ Interview Series with regularly posted interviews, and we're interested in who you'd like to see interviewed. Let us know in this thread and we'll see if we can make it happen. Once someone has agreed to an interview, we'll post to get feedback on what questions you'd like asked. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/ for past interviews.

--jeremy

because free sites that offer their services for free such as facebook (which is facing some attention from this biil because members have been known to post copyrighted content found on youtube and such) i am not in favor of this bill but also don't understand it's relationship to licensing agreements regarding software weather it be free or closed source freeware. i'm sure that clever politions would find a way to damage the philosophy of the Linux Community

We are winning...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/te....html?_r=1&hpw :D

One of the main goals of LQ is to help members get questions about Linux answered. One way we help facilitate this is with the "Zero Reply" functionality, which allows you to easily find threads with no replies. As previously announced, we've made the "Zero Reply Drive" a quarterly event here at LQ. The latest LQZRD will start at 12pm tomorrow (LQDT) and run for 96 hours. During that time, I invite everyone to click http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?do=noreplies and attempt to answer as many questions as they can.

Keep in mind that if you'd like to search for threads on specific topics that have 0 replies, you can do so using the advanced search (Find Threads with -> At Most -> 0 Replies).

If you have any ideas on how we can further facilitate questions being answered at LQ, please let us know in this thread.

--jeremy