“Information on the total use and value of open source in government is not held centrally and could not be obtained except at disproportionate cost.”
But open source software did “play an important role” in major government applications including the Directgov web portal, the online vehicle licensing system and Jobcentre Plus’s system to help people to find work, Merron added.
Read more »China, which has long wished to develop its own computer industry, has chosen to go with Linux on the software side. Loongson is its hope for the hardware side.
Read more »[Open-source] projects that have really gotten traction represent a codification of things that are commodities. The OS wars are largely over. Let's decide on a common platform. Therefore, Linux makes sense.
Read more »The presenter screen for Impress is a feature (currently in development) that aids a presenter during a slide show. It provides information on a second screen, that typically is not visible to the audience.
Read more »One area though we haven't yet analyzed is how their official Linux driver now compares to their much-optimized Windows Catalyst driver. Today, however, we will be looking just at that as we compare the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB performance under Linux and Microsoft Windows Vista.
Read more »"The Parrot team has continued to make monthly releases, releasing 0.4.16 in September and 0.4.17 in October..."
Read more »"Practical Ruby for System Administration, which was written by Andre Ben Hamou and published by Apress, is a lightning introduction to this modern scripting language and is a reasonably detailed, example based, explanation of the potential strength of Ruby for System Administrators and thus the enterprise..."
Read more »"This guide shows how to install the Songbird media player (0.3 Developer Pre-Release) on an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop. Songbird is a free software audio player with media database capabilities written using XUL and VLC, with an interface similar to Apple's iTunes. From the Songbird web site: "Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web.
Read more »I've been using Sound Juicer in previous Ubuntu releases to rip my CD’s and encode them as CD quality mp3’s for a while now so I can retain my one legal backup copy of them. When I did a fresh install of Gutsy however, I suddenly could not rip CD’s to mp3 formats.
With so much at stake, I cracked my knuckles,and figured out how to get this working.
Read more »"Open Komodo is now open! The open source platform for building development environments based on Komodo IDE and featuring the open-sourced code base from Komodo Edit is now available to developers at http://www.openkomodo.com..."
Read more »"We often get feedback from people that want to contribute to the Calendar apps, but lack the technical skills needed for programming. This post is for you. We need your help! ..."
Read more »"Nokia today announced that the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, the newest device in the company's Nseries line, was honored with LAPTOP's Best of CTIA Award in the Best Overall Product category at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2007 Show..."
Read more »"...the obvious conflict of interest between the standards-based web and proprietary platforms advanced by Microsoft, and the rationales for keeping the web's client-side programming language small while the proprietary platforms rapidly evolve support for large languages, does not help maintain the fiction that only clashing high-level philosophies are involved here..."
Read more »A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois.
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