Open source application developers are switching their efforts to Android, according to a new study. Google's Android mobile phone operating system is winning many fans. And now it appears to be winning the hearts of open source developers as well. Which is good news for users looking for more applications, and good news for the future health of the Android ecosphere.
Read more »[Tip] Auto rotate images
This data includes information about the position of the camera when the image was taken... However, some image programs use this data to rotate the image when displaying it while others don't, leaving the user to face inconsistent behaviour. This can be fixed.
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Easy (and amazing) Debian for the Nokia N900
By the time you read this my Nokia N900 will be packed up and on its way back to the kind folks who let me test it. As a last hurrah I spent my evening yesterday seeing how far I could push it; the results are fairly spectacular…
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The New Open Source Business Model Still Relies on Closed Source
Over the last couple of years a number of different open source business strategies have evolved. According to the 451 Group, it's an evolution that includes the broader adoption and usage of open source overall by both open source and proprietary software vendors.
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Novell Hires More Mono People (Despite Sacking SUSE Developers) and Microsoft Buys an OSBC Spot/Seat
Novell and Microsoft continue to fund development with the desired bias of using Microsoft APIs; Microsoft pays for its share of OSBC (again) and gets to set the tone with a keynote speech
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Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 released and Download links included
The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is the first Ubuntu 10.04 beta release, which brings a host of exciting new features.
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Week 2, Day 10 of SCO v. Novell - Chris Stone, O'Gara, Maciaszek, Nagle
Friday at the jury trial of SCO v. Novell, Chris Stone testified, and despite valiant efforts by SCO's Stuart Singer to make the phone call with Maureen O'Gara seem somehow scandalous, he handled himself professionally and apparently made the her allegations look inacccurate at best. He testified that he didn't tell her Novell was issuing a press release. She already knew.
Read more »The hunt for the Fastest Browser on Earth
The Browser Wars are heating up again. This article then is purely about which one of our favourite browsers is the Fastest. We haven't covered all the browsers under the sun but certainly all the usual suspects.
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RedNotebook—Advanced Diary Keeping
RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts.
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GParted is such sweet software
A physical disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions on which the operating system can read and write data. GParted enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partitions.
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Reviewed: OpenOffice.org 3.2
There's a new version of Linux's grandest office suite, but is it a major step forward or just another humdrum release with little to show? And most importantly, does it finally get the startup time down to an acceptable level? Read on for all the gory details...
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Linux is Not Against Software Patents (and Why Linus Torvalds Should Speak Up)
An inconvenient truth about the Linux Foundation is brought up again now that Linux is attacked with software patents that are named
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Linux alternatives for the iPad - and the future of netbooks, tablets and smartbooks
Apart from Apple, some other companies are bringing some interesting tablets. In contrary to the iTab, those other tablets do run Linux. Some are already available, such as the TouchBook from Always Innovating (AI), and some have supposedly better screens, like the Notion Ink Adam tablet.
Read more »Open Source Gets Political
As an election looms in the UK, copyright, intellectual property and Open Source, are making an appearance on the political stage, both at home and internationally.
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Version 6 of the PHProjekt project management software released
Version 6 of PHProjekt is a complete rebuild and has been released under a new licence
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