The third Release Candidate build for Firefox 3.5 is on its way. Mozilla repeatedly stressed during the development process of the next iteration of its open source browser that it was aiming to produce a single RC for Firefox 3.5. And fact is that it came extremely close to doing so.
Read more »Firefox 3.5 RC3 Coming Right Up
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Asus EeePC1000HE: switching to Linux
So the great moment has arrived. But how do I make the switch? I have horrible memories of struggling with new partitions, running into special bits of Microsoft code designed precisely to make it tough to switch to another operating system … Maybe there is a better way?
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PCLinuxOS! Wow!
I get excited about Linux and, day after day, shout to the world through this blog about how terrific it is! I've also been running PCLinuxOS 2009.1!
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Windows is good enough? Well so is Linux!
There are too many times that I have heard this phrase. "Windows is good enough which is why they have the market share." I saw it again today and this time it has flipped the switch between my brain and my fingers.
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Crossover Linux? No thanks!
As you all know Crossover Linux 8.0 was announced a few days ago. New and “exciting” features such as IE7 and Outlook 2007 support are presented as “major development” by the company’s CEO. Sorry, but I have to strongly disagree.
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Hide Gnome Panel
You might want to use the full desktop available for your application windows, without having the gnome panels in the way. This article describes how to move them to the compiz widget layer, effectively hiding them.
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Further Signs That Novell Will Sell in Parts, Stock Rebounds
Novell employees give more signs that sale of Novell assets is still on the table
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Top 10 Linux Backup and Recovery software
Its imperative to have a comprehensive backup and recovery solution that would enable the recovery of Linux servers, helping you to get back to business and minimize the downtime.
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Review: CentOS 5.3
CentOS is a "Community Enterprise OS", hence it's name. It's designed with the business user in mind, both on the desktop and in the server room. Since the last time we reviewed CentOS, it's under gone some changes, and seen a minor version upgrade to improve a number of features.
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Edelman and Waggener Edstrom Reported to the FTC
Earlier today we wrote about the FTC planning to put an end to bribed bloggers. But they might be targeting the receiving end rather than eradicating the problem at its root. Microsoft bribes bloggers not directly; rather, it uses unethical marketing agencies.
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Federal Trade Commission May Crack Down on Microsoft’s Bribery of Bloggers
THE FTC may not be the most potent of bodies [1, 2], but it may finally make a move to end the bribing of bloggers. Microsoft is a major culprit [1, 2, 3, 4] and an article about intent to take action specifically mentions Microsoft as an example...
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Microsoft Forcibly Turns Washington State University Students to Customers
Students of WSU (Washington State University) are the latest victims of Live@Edu
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Potential Future Replacement for F-Spot Enters Ubuntu
AWARENESS of the questions surrounding Mono has increased considerably and The Nixed Report publishes a detailed essay on the subject. There are also those insisting that it's "just a tool," but the point worth making is that this tool fits well in the repositories, without the ramifications of being passed directly from the distributor on the ISOs.
Read more »Use ubuntu as a media center with Moovida
Moovida is what used to be called elisa,it is an open source cross-platform media center solution designed to be simple for people not particularly familiar with computers.
By bringing together all your movies, TV shows, tunes and photos in one simple innovative interface.
More than that, Moovida brings you the best of internet video, music and images to play on your HDTV, laptop or PC.
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Clutter Approaches 1.0
Clutter, a library that is designed to make it easier for applicatio developers to integrate OpenGL into thier applications, is approaching their 1.0 release.
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