A variety of developments that show resistence to and strengths of Free software.
Read more »Eye on Microsoft: Intel Collaborations, Dumping, and Search Redux
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State of the Intellectual Bully: Patent Raids, Trolls, and Microsoft
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Plenty of patents news today, including a degradation in the system's operation.
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Microsoft is Losing the Web, But Promise of Interoperability is Already Broken
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Judging by the Web, Microsoft is not interested in interoperability, despite feet-dragging.
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Desktop recording made easy with Byzanz in Ubuntu
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Have you ever been chatting on a website forum and been totally unable to describe an action you’ve performed on Ubuntu? “Click the top bar—the grey thing at the top, you know. And then drag the icon. The blue icon. Drag it to the desktop…”
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Gerald Carter of Likewise talks about LDAP for Linux (video)
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Some GNU/Linux desktop deployments require secure authentication from a Windows Active Directory server. Gerald Carter, a long-time member of the Samba team and an enthusiastic free software developer, now works for Likewise.
Read more »Track your investments with Grism
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My dad has been pestering me for some time to find him an open source tool that he could use to follow the market trends. He's been thinking about investing a little something in the market, but not without due diligence. Grism, written in Ruby, is the tool my dad now uses to easily follow the changing market trends.
Read more »Ubuntu 8.10 Feature Freeze and Kernel Update
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Ubuntu 8.10 is now feature-frozen; effort has moved away from adding new features to concentrate on fixing bugs. The final release is on track for October 30th.
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Tomboy - Desktop Note Taking in openSUSE Linux
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Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. Tomboy is written in C# and utilizes the Mono runtime and Gtk#. Automatic spell-checking is provided by GtkSpell.
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Using Pidgin to Send and Receive Text Messages for Free
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Did you know that Pidgin (formerly named Gaim), a Free and Open-source multi-platform (Instant Messaging) IM client, can be used to send and receive SMS text messages for free?
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EVDO and VoIP for remote audio transmission
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A cellular plan using an EVDO modem can provide a connection with bandwidth of approximately 3Mbps to the client and 1.5Mbps up to the provider (comparable to DSL) for a much lower cost than alternatives such as satellite.
Read more »The Microsoft Connection with Dewey Square Group and DCI/New Media
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More on Microsoft's pressure groups in the governmental side of things
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Novell, the Microsoft Windows Company
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Mono applications start moving to Windows Vista, at Novell's demand
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Linux jumps to 13.4 percent of the stalling server market
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According to a recent IDC report highlighted by ZDNet, Linux is booming. At just 9.4 percent of the overall server market in terms of revenue in 2007, Linux has now climbed to 13.4 percent of the overall server market, with Unix at 7.7 percent and Windows at 36.5 percent.
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KDE Momentum Continues with New Updates, Features
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The KDE community has released KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release for the KDE 3.5 series of the popular Linux desktop. Meanwhile, KDE developers continue work on bringing service-oriented computing to KDE, as well as a new Amarok media player and enhanced Qt support. KDE also has adopted the Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary License Agreement.
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Things you should never EVER type in Linux. Ever!
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If you’re a Linux guru or or experienced enough to know what all of these things are then you probably don’t need this article and we can go our merry ways. If not, then DO NOT, DON’T, NEVER EVER EVER EVER run these commands in a terminal session. If you do you will render your system anything from useless without a forced reboot to devoid of any useful purpose ever.
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