What is QEMU? It's a free software "processor emulator", which means it's capable of running applications written for other systems natively on your current operating system.

One annoying misfeature of Gnome is the way that they have tried to foul up X Windows cut and paste. For those who don’t know, X Windows cut and paste is much quicker and simpler than Microsoft Windows cut and paste. Select by dragging with the left mouse button, and paste by pressing the middle mouse button (this is the scroll wheel button on modern mice)

The Strigi project is the core of the index and search technology for KDE 4. Strigi is designed to be small and fast, and it can be installed and used with or without KDE 4, as we'll see.

Well, I thought I’d create my own list of programs I FEEL I couldn’t live without, and don’t come installed as default. Here goes:

Photos from RMS' talk at UC College, Aluva in Kerala. He is welcomed with traditional drum band and he has his famous St IGNUsious pose.

"Parted Magic 2.0 is finally released! See the changelog for most of the small details. I'll talk about the cool stuff most people will care about here. GParted has been forked to VisParted to add features GParted doesn't have. VisParted can read and write volume labels for most supported file systems. Point and click disk wiping was added..."

Security, the experts like to tell us, is a process, not a product. With open source that can be a very good thing since when security problems are found they can be fixed quickly. That's the case over this last weekend, Feb. 9-10, when a security problem was found, and given a hot fix

I've written before about the data collected from Alfresco's Open Source Barometer survey. While originally a survey of 10,000 members of Alfresco's "content community" (i.e., those who register with Alfresco to download white papers, documentation, etc.), the survey now includes a swelling population of the community, with 35,000+ members.