A look at the recent talk from Novell's PR/CMO and a reminder of why SUSE developers ought to leave Novell
Read more »Microsoft Admits a Software Patent is Just Like Maths
A bunch of news about patents, including an invaluable admission from one Microsoft attorney that mathematics ought not to be patentable
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Cover-thumbnailer - Displays music album covers in nautilus
Cover Thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more.
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Scheduling Tasks in Linux with Gnome-Schedule
Most Linux users are familiar with cron, which your system uses to launch tasks at scheduled times. However most users don't take full advantage of this incredibly useful tool. Enter gnome-schedule: a graphical task-scheduling utility that allows you to setup tasks to run once in the future, or periodically.
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When Will Dell Ship Ubuntu 10.04 Systems?
Even as Dell prepares to ship computers with Ubuntu 10.04 pre-loaded, the PC giant is battling rumors that it no longer remains committed to Canonical's Linux distribution. For Dell, it's time for a clear, concise statement that specifically describes the company's history with Ubuntu and next moves with the operating system. Here's why.
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Gereqi - Yet Another Amarok 1.4 Clone That Just Works
For Amarok 1.4 lovers, there is more good news. Gereqi is yet another Amarok 1.4 fork, which is still in its early stages of development. And it is already looking good.
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LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Collaborate on Mobile Operating Systems
LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation today announced a key partnership with the objective of collaborating closely on open source innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation.
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Novell Responds to SCO's Attempt to Avoid Paying Costs Now
In the latest news from SCO's slow boat to absolutely nowhere, Novell has filed its opposition to SCO's motion to stay taxation of costs.
Read more »The most popular Linux for Web servers is
Even a Linux fan might not have heard of CentOS Linux but, if you're a Web or other edge-server administrator, I can guarantee you know about CentOS.
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Writing Better Shell Scripts – Part 2
This post is the second in a series on shell script debugging, error handling, and security. The content of this post will be geared mainly toward BASH users, but there will be information that’s suitable for users of other shells as well. Information such as techniques and methodologies may transfer very well, but BASH specific constructs and commands will not.
Read more »Two Creative Button Concepts For Ubuntu By Izo Design
Mark Shuttleworth said, “Moving everything to the left opens up the space on the right nicely, and I would like to experiment in 10.10 with some innovative options there.” So if you guys are wondering what did he even meant by that, you have take a look at this.
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Starcraft 2 on Linux with Wine
Okie dokie, so Ive mentioned before that I play Starcraft 2 under my Linux install with no issues. Since the games official release a few days ago I have been getting a good bit of traffic on those two pages so I figured I would put together a quick HOWTO for getting Starcraft 2 working on your Linux distro of choice.
Read more »Android 3.0: 10 things Google should change
Android 2.2, AKA "Froyo," was announced amid wild phone-nerd scenes a couple of months back, although we're yet to see much of it in the wild.
Read more »Open source is filled with freeloaders
With OSCON in the rear-view mirror the usual grievances are being aired.
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