Ubuntu 9.10 is the upcoming version of the Ubuntu operating system. The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Karmic Koala”.
Read more »Upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta
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Wrapper Script for vmware commands
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The free vmware product, vmware-server (formerly GSX) does not have auto power on for certain guests. A simple workaround for not being able to auto power on guests using the vmware interface is call the vmware command line utility at boot up using the local init function. A better way is to write an init script to handle the start up and possibly other functions.
Read more »This Week: Moblin, Mesa, X, GNOME
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This week there were several new software releases including the Linux 2.6.32-rc3 kernel, KDE 4.3.2, Alien Arena 7.31, OpenChrome 0.2.904, Wine 1.1.31, and xf86-video-radeonhd 1.3.0. Worth noting with the new Wine release are continued Direct3D 10 advancements and the start of Microsoft ActiveX support within JavaScript.
Read more »Python: Converting from one temperature scale to another is easy, but what about eight?
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In just about any class or set of tutorials involving beginning programming, there's usually a problem or set of problems having to do with converting temperatures. Just about everyone has had to write a wee bit of code to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius or vice versa. That's not much of a chore.
Read more »The Two Elephant Problem
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When an open source project wants to make major changes in its core code, such as revamping a user interface library, it faces the two elephant problem. The difficulty is moving the second elephant into the room without disturbing the first or just filling the room completely with elephant.
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Supported Files Of Various Ubuntu Multimedia Programs
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This is list of Various Ubuntu Multimedia Programs if you know something is missing please let us know we will keep updating this post
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4,273,291 lines of code in KDE
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4,273,291 lines of code, that's the size of the KDE core modules, which are released as the official KDE software distribution, as of today.
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Shall we play a game?
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In the style of the Command & Conqueror genre type of games this newly discovered (by me) time waster is called Warzone 2100. Anyone who states that there are no good games for Linux need to pull their sat out of their ash.
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Ubuntu 9.10 makes a serious charge toward the enterprise level
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At the end of this month (October 29th, 2009 to be exact), Ubuntu will be releasing its newest take on the Linux operating system. This time around, it should be obvious (even to the biggest of skeptics) that Ubuntu is making some serious inroads to the business and enterprise scene.
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Top 5 open source Firewall
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With perilous threats from crackers and script kiddes lurking in the network, IT administrators could do no better than placing a firewall protection. After an comprehensive search we assorted the top 5 open source firewall.
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What's cooking for FreeBSD 8?
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This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and September 2009. During that time a lot of work has been done on wide variety of projects, including the Google Summer of Code projects. The BSDCan conference was held in Ottawa, CA, in May. The EuroBSDCon conference was held in Cambridge, UK, in September. Both events were very successful.
Read more »The Many Ways to Copy, Move, Rename, and Archive in KDE 4
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In my last post, I covered some of the features in Dolphin that I find particularly useful. In this post, you will learn about some very basic features that everyone uses, but you may not know all of the various easy methods of accomplishing them.
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Free N900
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At the Maemo Summit Conference in Amsterdam, Nokia gave out over 300 N900 phones running Maemo 5. The N900 is the successor to the N810, over a hundred of which were handed out at Akademy a year ago. Read on for some opinions about the N900 and the results of 3 days of hacking.
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How to use Amarok to manage your iPod
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Sometimes it can be difficult to manage your iPod in Linux without hacking iTunes on your Ubuntu machine. Today we take a look at using the popular music player Amarok to mange your iPod on Ubuntu.
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ARMing desktop Linux
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For a brief time in 2008, the Linux desktop actually owned a segment of the desktop industry: netbooks. That was then. ARM-based netbooks, however, are on their way and, since these systems can't run Windows, Linux has the potential market all to itself.
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