"...The following text has been crossposted from Stephen Downes: The Future of Education, liveblogged notes taken at the conference by Stephen Downes at the First International Conference Free Knowledge, Free Technology - Education for a free information society [...] The conference deals first with the concept of public goods and public education, and their relationship with Freedom.
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Evolutionary Art on Ubuntu
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evolvotron will help you generate patterns, wallpapers and textures.
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Community roots bolster Linux growth
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Linux is beginning to find its legs as the foundation in many different technologies and in the process is fueling a feedback loop that is helping accelerate the operating system’s popularity.
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Is it possible that the Linux Desktop is going to surpass the Mac in use? And why or why not?
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...there will be people who look at the computer that costs a third of a Mac and half of a Windows-infected box and pick the one they can afford that does what they need it to do.
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TweetDeck on Ubuntu
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I just installed the Twitter client TweetDeck on my Ubuntu laptop (Fiesty Fawn v. 7.04). In the short time I have played with it, it seems to be working as well as my Windows-based app. The Adobe AIR framework is in alpha for Linux and so it is anyone’s guess what ultimately will happen.
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Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux?
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Not all Linux distributions are made with the same components, which can make it difficult for software developers to write applications for multiple Linux distributions. That's where the Linux Standards Base (LSB) comes into play.
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Itches You Shouldn't Scratch
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The problem is that an awful lot of developers have the same itch - and they don't always look around before they scratch it.
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Tight Budgets? Try Open-Source SOA!
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Implementing SOA can be an extremely expensive undertaking. That's a boat load of capital you need to ask senior management for. Leveraging open source products and services can help ease the pain.
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Online Word Processors Worth A Try
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If you a looking for an alternative to OpenOffice, web applications are becoming an extremely good option. Of course. Most people know about Google Docs, but there are many other alternatives. In order to help you narrow your search, below is a list of some of your options as well as a short description.
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on the many roads to perdition
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"Reflecting earlier today on some crappiness in a software project I'm involved in, my brain started to enumerate the ways that free software projects can fail.
The maintainer can go AWOL. The major culprits for this are babies, university thesis advisors, and Google.
This is pernicious in two ways: ..."
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Retirement pre-announcement
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"From the Puppy project, that is. I have been thinking about this for sometime, it is just a question of when.
I had previously hinted that I would do so early in 2010, however I will probably bring that forward..."
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Barriers to Reporting Truths
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Possible New Dumping Tactics, Pulling a Netscape
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Microsoft prebundles own addons (turning products into 'features'), targets countries where ODF is adopted.
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GNOME Foundation's Stormy Peters: Trust and empower
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Stormy Peters recently became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, where she is already working to raise public awareness of the GNOME desktop environment and user interface, and to attract new corporate sponsors and developers to the GNOME community.
Read more »LinuxTreat: 4 Open Source Color Pickers
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Color picker or Color Chooser is an application or component, to pick colors from photos and other images. It can output colors in either RGB mode or hex, which is useful for web designer, UI designer and also for artwork designer.
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