Oh, my, we've been busy. Lots and lots of improvements. Runs better on Windows, too.
Cygwin is kinda broken with current wine, so we've rewound back to an old version, but you have to copy and paste a URL from winetricks' output into the mirror selector to use it. Sigh.
Read more »A Mozilla Developer Preview of improvements in the Gecko layout engine is now available for download. This is a pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.3 platform, which forms the core of rich Internet applications such as Firefox.
Read more »Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk errors and tries unsuccessfully to repair them.
Read more »There is power in authority. Microsoft's strategy against open source uses authority. It ties up institutions that are authoritative, that have power over professions, creating a benefit for the institution that ties its members to proprietary Microsoft tools....To Microsoft open source is not an end in itself. It is a marketing tool. It is a way to gain lock-in with important customer sets.
Read more »Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (RHEL) is now available in early beta, providing users of Red Hat's flagship operating system with bug fixes and an early look at some new features, too.
Read more »Q: The PogoPlug is easy to use for end-users, as well as advanced enough to where software developers can modify the code it runs, why did you go with an open platform versus a closed platform?
Read more »If you were one of the 106.5 million people who watched the Super Bowl this year, you very likely caught the now (more) famous Google ad, "Parisian Love." I got to thinking about the search field as a storytelling metaphor the other day when I had yet another occasion to explain to a technological newcomer just exactly what Linux and open source was.
Read more »When Cryptic offered an opportunity to beta test Star Trek Online I jumped at the chance. With a lot of hard work the team here and some help from Cryptic we were just able to get it running in Wine. You can also receive a 25% discount on CX Games or Pro with ComeToTheLight promo code.
Read more »Dedoimedo lemma to happy computing states that the fanaticism of a Linux user is inversely proportional to the size of the user base for the said distro.
Read more »The following idea, proposed on Ubuntu Brainstorm, puts forward the sugeestion that users should be allowed to configure the application set before installation. Sort of like the Windows Browser ballot but for, well, pretty much everything.
Read more »Since it's 2010, the future was supposed to be here by now. There is, however, one area that's living up to the Future Shock hype: the ever-expanding capabilities of smartphones. Still in their infancy, it doesn't take much imagination to see them as all-powerful tiny supercomputers.
Read more »Today KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework.
Read more »The latest KDE4 desktop release sports thousands of new features and bugfixes, and includes the best integration yet of semantic technology.
Read more »Reminder-ng it is a reminder application for GNOME which allows you to manage reminders, and alerts the user when they expire.
Read more »The latest 4.4 release of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) offers far more than just stability and bug fixes: The developers have added a special new desktop for netbooks, as well as more program options. They have also made major structural changes.
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