Since earlier this year, commercial Linux distributor Novell has been working to get a set of online tools together, which it hopes will make it the force behind virtual machine server appliances. Today, the online tool, called SUSE Studio, and the related SUSE appliance program go into production.
Read more »Novell punts tools to make software appliances
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OLPCsb: Deploying XO Laptops in USA Classroom (Pt 5)
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With our international program still developing, technological kinks being worked out, and our local teacher and University students still exploring and researching ways for the XO's to be integrated into the California 3rd grade curriculum, we have not yet done extensive documentation and created a resource model.
Read more »How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 3
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In this final part of our series on laying out a book with OpenOffice.org, you will learn how to position illustrations in your book, how to use paragraph styles, and how to export in different formats. What you will take away from this is one method that has worked for me and many other people. At the end of this post, I will provide links for further study on the subject.
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GNU/Linux is Shrinking Microsoft’s Margins
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The impact of GNU/Linux on Microsoft's profitability becomes more evident
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Linus Torvalds’ Attitude Towards Free Software is Not News
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Keep Score: Canonical's Ubuntu Partner Program
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Canonical has organized its Ubuntu partner program into three segments — business partners, technology partners and training partners. But to spot the next generation of potential Ubuntu channel partners you need to check out two areas: Cloud computing and the so-called Ubuntu Marketplace.
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Speed Up Flash and Firefox in Ubuntu Jaunty [Tips & Tricks]
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The post describes 2 tricks for optimizing Firefox and Flash. Read on for details...
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Download Avidemux 2.5.0: (For: Ubuntu - .deb Files, Windows)
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Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
What's new in Avidemux 2.5.0:
Read more »Advanced Gmail Notifier for Linux - CheckGmail - Lets You Control Emails From The Notification Area
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Remember Highly Ubuntu Integrated Gmail Notifier? What if you could click the notification bubble to delete, open or mark an email as spam?
Read more »Microsoft Wants to Give RAND Terms to Free Software
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Microsoft's promise of so-called "interoperability" leaves much to be desired
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Fastest File Sharing Trick for Ubuntu / Debian Linux
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Some time we need to share files to other systems in our computer center quickly with out any tools in hand. If you have a python installation in your system, file sharing is very simple by implementing a little http server, using a single line command.
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KDE 4.3 Shaping Up Nicely, KWin Needs Work
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For a very long time now, I've been on the hunt for a distribution that really put a lot of effort into their KDE4 implementation. This has been a frustrating search, full of broken installations, incredibly slow performance, and so many visual artifacts they made my eyes explode.
Read more »The Failure of Commercial Open Source Software
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So what happened to open source as a business? There was a wave of “commercial open source” companies that were going to change the world, including SugarCRM, Alfresco, Jasper, Pentaho, and ActiveGrid, a company I started in 2003 to bring open source software into businesses.
Read more »SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2009: winners announced
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The winners of the fourth annual SourceForge Community Choice Awards were announced at this years OSCON. Over 47,000 open source projects were nominated for this years Community Choice Awards and 85 finalists were selected across twelve categories.
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Linux4Afrika Integrates Sugar Desktop and WLAN
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The Linux4Afrika development help project that is active in a number of east African countries has released the next verson of its software distribution. The donated used hardware will be expanded by new functionality.
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