"...Perl 6 is a rewrite of the Perl language. It will feel Perly, and yet become more modern as it pulls in influences from languages like Ruby and Haskell.
Technically, Perl 6 is just a language specification, and there are at least two implementations underway..."
Read more »"jaaronfarr asked me why I switched from Planner to Org. Both of them are popular personal information managers for Emacs, and both of them have practically all the features I need. They both do a good job at helping people manage tasks, schedule, and notes. If you have a few months to explore this, I suggest that you try both for at least a month each. On the other hand, if you want quick results, some time thinking about how you plan can save you more time later..."
Read more »Setting up a network can be fairly quick and easy if you're setting it up with straight Class A, Class B, or Class C network addresses. But, there may be occasions when you would only have a few hosts assigned to a given network segment.
Read more »High-end project management tools and low-end to-do utilities are a dime a dozen these days. But what if you need something less complicated than a full-blown project management application, but more flexible than a simple to-do list?
Read more »No, this isn't some esoterical or philosophical musing upon the meaning of Christmas or any other day for that matter. For this instance, you can take ol' helios literally. Just don't get used to it.
Read more »"Welcome to Open Source Living, an archive of the Web's best Open Source software, applications and references for a zero-cost / top quality digital experience." OSLiving.com came about as a result of a long list of browser favourites that was frankly too long to manage, so rather than horde all of these links to Open Source apps and software I decided to centralise everything into a single site that others could benefit from too.
Read more »mt-daapd is a DAAP server that works with most POSIX compatible operating systems. It allows you to share your music collection over the local network using the same protocol iTunes uses, so real iTunes users may peruse your music.
Read more »My 71 year-old father has agreed to try Ubuntu on his home PC. He has used Windows for years, but after his XP system became so infected with viruses and other malware that I needed to wipe his system, he's willing to try Linux. I've promised I'll reload XP if this experiment fails.
Read more »The end of the year is obviously the time for the “look back,” and although we weren’t planning any grand pronouncements that 2007 was the year of social computing or anything like that (more in a moment), perhaps it’s fitting that we stumbled across an announcement from Red Hat of a changing of the guard.
Read more »I was talking with a friend this morning who used to work at JBoss. He made an interesting point: Rob Bearden, the COO at JBoss, was perhaps the biggest reason for JBoss' success. Not because he was out proclaiming freedom to the world: that was Marc Fleury's strength and he did it extremely well, bringing visibility and downloads to JBoss.
Read more »MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos for the 32 and 64 versions are in the released directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and public mirrors. MEPIS 7.0 offers up to date user applications delivered on top of a Debian stable core.
Read more »Joomla!, a popular content management system (CMS) for Web portals, is easy to install and maintain, and has thousands of components, modules, and Mambots for almost every thinkable function a Web site could possibly need. All of the extensions are open source, as is the CMS itself. Here are a few extensions that I find indispensable.
Read more »Ed Burnette wrote a rebuttal to my blog post, "Why Microsoft Loves Google Android", which was high-spirited. Reputation bashing aside, I like high-spirited debates.
Read more »I've just recieved my Dell Inspiron 6400 with Ubuntu preinstalled. Almost everything worked flawlessly out of the box, but there were two oddities:
Read more »GIMP is the undisputed king of image editing in Linux platforms, and is next only to Photoshop in popularity in Windows and Mac platforms. With a large community of developers and an even larger pool of users, it is no surprise that GIMP is very popular.
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