When Canonical launched Ubuntu 9.10 earlier today, Centrify Corp. - maker of Microsoft Active Directory-related tools - raised its hand and vowed to support Ubuntu Server Edition 9.10. It was a small but significant announcement that could help Ubuntu gain a stronger foothold within corporate Windows networks. Here's why.
Read more »Centrify: Ubuntu Server Edition 9.10 Meets Active Directory
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Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs.
Read more »MontaVista's market-specific distros support Android, Atom
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MontaVista Software announced more Market Specific Distributions (MSDs) for its MontaVista Linux 6 commercial embedded development distribution. The MSDs are separated into industrial automation, multi-core networking, Android, automotive and portable multimedia, and multifunction-printer versions, and support processors from Cavium, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments, says the company.
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Running Mono - an Overview
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We’ve been using Mono for the production server of Orion’s Belt for a couple of months now. On this article I’d like to share our experiences using Mono. We developed our project fully on Windows with Visual Studio 2005, and at a time we started to consider Mono for a production server.
Read more »CodeWeavers Announces Lame Duck Support Insurance Policy
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On the one-year anniversary of the software industry’s largest-ever one day giveaway a publicity stunt that nearly crippled his company Jeremy White, the deeply embittered CEO of CodeWeavers, announced ALL of his software will NOT be free tomorrow in celebration. This Year’s Special Includes Lame Duck Insurance Policy Offering 2-for-1 Support.
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Linux Theme Mockups for Firefox 4.0/3.7
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In addition to theme and UI changes already discussed for Firefox 3.7 and 4.0, there are some proposed Linux specific visual changes.
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Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 Post Installation Guide
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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Post Installation Guide. Multimedia, Java, Eye Candy, needed applications and much more!
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Free Software Sued by Red Bend, Patent Reform Called for Again
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Chrome comes under software patent attack, Apple to fight back against Nokia over patents, a new (if any) model for protectionism is needed
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Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Strengths and weaknesses
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Over the past few days I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the differences between Microsoft’s latest Windows 7 and Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of each of the operating systems.
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Network monitoring using Wireshark
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Wireshark is a very versatile utility to monitor all the neighborhood network activity, including disassembling packets and viewing data transmitted from anyone who is connected on your LAN (or Wireless LAN). I'm using Wireshark to monitor the activity of the network, and I explained the packets transmitted between the peers.
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Automatic Dialer With Asterisk And GNUDialer
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This document describes the installation of the automatic dialer GNUDialer, this is an alternative dialer to VICIDial, with more lightweight scripts and a far more easier GUI, it uses Asterisk and MySQL for its operation.
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Wine Cedega Crossover and PlayonLinux
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As the title says I'm going to talk about some of the differences between all of the above. WINE is basically a windows emulator for Linux operating systems. WINE allows you to run some applications on Linux that does not have Linux support or installers ie: Office 2007, World of Warcraft and many others. This is not a how-to but more a idea of what is going around and what its all about.
Read more »Novell Cannot Defend GroupWise After Major Embarrassment
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With the Los Angeles decision made final, Novell resorts to cheap shots and excuses to defend its proprietary software
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Full Circle Magazine issue 30 is out
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Can you believe it? We’ve made it to thirty. That’s right; thirty issues of FCM, and they wouldn’t have happened without you! Here’s a giant thank you to all the editors, translators, writers, hosting donators, and everyone else that’s made FCM and Ubuntu possible.
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Syntensity: New FOSS Platform for 3D Games
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Syntensity isn’t a single game, but rather a platform that can run all kinds of 3D games. There are already a few games, and anybody can create their own. The main game is a multiplayer first/third person shooter (sort of like Quake 3 Arena), and there is also a simple drawing game (in which multiple people can draw and see what each other are drawing in realtime).
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