The first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex, was made available on Saturday. This preliminary Intrepid prerelease includes updated packages, a new version of the Linux kernel, and an experimental new visual style.
Read more »Horny for Ubuntu 8.10: first look at Intrepid Ibex
http://arstechnica.com –
Home automation in GNU/Linux
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
Home Automation is anything that your home does for you automatically to make living there more enjoyable or productive. It covers many areas, including remote and timed control of lights and electrical home appliances, distributed media services, and communication. Over the last 10 years, many hardware manufacturers have presented their own proprietary solutions to these problems.
Read more »
Category: End User Tags:
Like Twitter, but with Freedom Inside
http://www.softwarefreedom.org –
"A company called Control Yourself, led by Evan Prodromou (who serves with me and many others on the FSF-endorsed Freedom for Network Services Committee) yesterday launched a site called identi.ca. It's a microblogging service similar to Twitter, but it is designed to respect the rights and freedoms of its users..." -- http://identi.ca/doc/source
Read more »
Banshee 1.0 is more than an audio player (video)
http://www.linux.com –
Banshee 1.0 is finally here, and the development team has added a truck load of new features; making it not only an audio player but a full blown media player and manager. This video discusses all of the new and improved features of version 1.
Read more »5 Reasons A Dark Theme will Ruin Ubuntu
http://trentrichardson.com –
Over at arstechnica there is a glimpse at the new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. A few screenshots show that Ubuntu is still going dark. The direction they are headed is not very clear. Even by scanning other user’s comments it appears its not a very popular idea, and I agree 100%! Here are 5 reasons a dark theme will only hurt Ubuntu
Read more »Easy To Use Kid Friendly 3D Game Maker Platinum Arts Sandbox Beta 2.2.0 Release!
http://www.kids.platinumarts.net –
Sandbox is a game design tool based on the Cube 2 engine that allows users to quickly and easily create and edit their own worlds in game, even cooperatively. It is free, open source, and easy to use for Kids and Adults.
Read more »Conkeror in the Debian NEW queue
http://noone.org –
"I already mentioned a few times in the blog that I’m working on a Debian package of the Conkeror web browser. And now, after a lot of fine-tuning (and I still further new ideas how to improve the package ;-) Conkeror is finally in the NEW queue and hopefully will hit unstable in a few days..."
Read more »GNU IceCat 3.0
http://lists.gnu.org –
"Hello, I just uploaded a first version of GNUzilla Icecat 3 based on the new Firefox 3 source. You can find the source code and GNU/Linux-i386 binaries here: ..." -- From Giuseppe Scrivano: http://it.gnu.org/~gscrivano/
Read more »The Bizarre Cathedral - 11
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman
Read more »
Category: End User Tags:
Simplify Wine with PlayOnLinux
http://linuxsoftware.blogsome.com –
I’m usually quite happy with Linux software, so I don’t use Wine all that much. Normally, I only use Wine to test some web pages in IE. But now and then I have the need to edit some word file that Open Office can’t handle. For that reason I recently installed Microsoft Office on my Ubuntu at work with the help of PlayOnLinux.
Read more »Turn OpenOffice.org into a lean mean CAT machine
http://www.fanaticattack.com –
Many professional translators use computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools such as SDLX, TRADOS, Déjà Vu and WordFast. But since integrate tightly with Microsoft Word, you can’t use them with OpenOffice.org Writer. The Anaphraseus extension provides solution to the problem: using it, you can turn Writer into a powerful CAT tool.
Read more »
AutoMagic and KGRUBEditor
http://weblog.obso1337.org –
KGRUBEditor will be a configuration UI and System Setting module for managing GRUB in KDE. It is beginning to turn into a very nice configuration tool, thanks to the skills and patience of Konstantinos Smanis (Artemis_Fowl). There are still some minor style-guide related UI issues to fix, such as aligning the labels to the right along a center line and wording in screens and warning messages.
Read more »Ten fantastic keyboard shortcuts in OpenOffice.org
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
A lot of software users I meet seem to feel they are not using their software as efficiently as they could. If that includes you, then listen up. Here is my list of the ten, lesser-known, OpenOffice.org Writer keyboard shortcuts that will help you improve your productivity.
Read more »
DokuWiki: An elegant and lightweight wiki engine
http://www.linux.com –
Created as a simple solution for managing documentation, DokuWiki has evolved into a powerful and flexible wiki suitable for most tasks involving collaborative editing. DokuWiki doesn't use a database back end (all pages are stored as plain text files), which makes it easy to install and maintain.
Read more »Sync everything with Conduit
http://nothickmanuals.info –
Nowadays, documents and files are not only stored on a desktop machine or laptop, they are quite often dispersed over different web-based services and applications like Flickr, del.icio.us, and Gmail. Conduit is a unique synchronization utility, which can help you to keep stuff on your laptop in sync with myriads of web services as well as other machines.
Read more »
Popular contentIBM Turns To Linux In Desktop Campaign Against Microsoft
http://www.informationweek.com –
The company plans to ship Ubuntu and Red Hat versions of its "Open Collaboration Client," a combination of Lotus Notes 8 and Symphony. Read more »Teachers becoming Free Software advocates as GNU/Linux finds its perfect home in Kerala's schools
http://www.freelists.org –
I am inviting you to see the schools in my district.There you can see how reachers handling linux .Of course there is some problems in Printer Driver but it can be solved in the new versions .You must realise the Propreitory Rights .It is a new OS it will take some time to establish .You are listing the problems are your problems only Read more »Global Server Load Balancing with Open Source tools
http://www.o3magazine.co.uk –
Global Server Load Balancing is the automatic routing of users to the nearest / fastest server to them based on their source IP. Typically a GSLB solution requires expensive application switches at each site, and additional software licenses that run into the thousands of dollars. Read more » Category: High End Tags: |
Popular content continuedA Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
http://biz.yahoo.com –
Oh, how the mighty have fallen... this is Microsoft we’re talking about, and if its proposed acquisition of Yahoo signals anything, it serves as a confirmation that Microsoft’s glory days are in the past. Read more »The Non-Revocable GPL
http://www.groklaw.net –
I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting email about it. Read more »Free voice recognition software that works
http://smart-machines.blogspot.com –
If you are considering adding voice recognition to your AI or robotics project then you are probably looking for a free implementation that works well. Read more » Category: Industry Tags: |
