Seventeen apps for ubuntu that you may not know about, with little screenshots.

There's no point in bashing other operating systems. Linux holds its place. It will get even better. But competition is good for us. It keeps us all in shape and prepared. It makes us go over the edge. It makes us think. (An interesting take on where free software is at)

One of the touted features of the $200 OLPC laptop is the peer-to-peer mesh topology networking feature that can theoretically bring an Internet infrastructure where there is no network infrastructure. The problem is that peer-to-peer wireless LAN mesh topology sounds better than it actually works and there’s a good reason it isn’t used commercially.

"...Satish Talim of RubyLearning.com talked to Ruby Gurus from around the world, to get their views and opinions..."

"When a GNU/Linux machine runs out of physical memory it will start to use any configured swap-space. This is usually a sign of trouble as swap files and partitions are significantly slower to access than physical memory, however having some swap is generally better than having none at all.

"...In summary, there’s no news here since last year: Yes Firefox 2 has an enhanced anti-phishing protection that sends your web address to Google that you have to activate. There’s currently no other mechanism to achieve a comparable level of protection. Unless there were other providers. Which Firefox could integrate.

"Many people have asked us for information about the lawsuit prepared to be filed in Texas against Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons. The plaintiffs of the lawsuit are the parents of a student whose image in a CC-licensed photograph was used by Virgin Mobile in an advertising campaign and the photographer who took the original picture of the student and posted it on Flickr.

Some industry observers are sounding the alarm about the need for open source software license awareness in the enterprise.