While I've known about the free, open-source desktop publishing application Scribus, until I happened across this article today I didn't know that Scribus is a cross-platform program that runs not just in Linux/Unix but also on computers using the Macintosh OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. That raises my opinion of Scribus immediately.

Couple of weeks back, Andrea Di Maio of Gartner wrote a blog post arguing that cloud computing is killing open source in the government.

jQuery (mb)Gallery is a jQuery plugin for creating image galleries with a slideshow feature.

It is possible to present the galleries in any way wanted & adding a link to display them in the main gallery viewer.

This allows administrators to take untrusted content, run it through one or more filters, and be able to trust that the content can't cause the filter programs to do evil things.

Boodler is a cross-platform audio tool with which you can construct and play back sound streams composed in a simple, Python-based syntax.

Developer Matthew Dillon has announced the release of version 2.4 of DragonFly BSD, originally created as a fork from FreeBSD 4.x. The major release includes several bug fixes, performance improvements and a new 64-bit port.

All the glass clicking and cheers of late surrounding the apparent conversion of Microsoft to the open source fold needs to stop. We need the Cold War. We need Communism. And, yes, we need the OS Wars.

So I burned the downloaded Kubuntu ISO, and sat to install it on my Inspiron 6400. The install process wasn't that bad. Point and click, with a bit of uneasy extra wait at the keyboard mapping selection screen. But it was the after-installation time that was totally bad.