I’ve had persistent issues with Intel Video since the Jaunty release of Ubuntu. The short version is that the fancy effects that I eventually came to depend on stopped working after the Intrepid release of the distribution. Both Jaunty and Karmic include Intel video drivers – and I’ve tried every bleeding edge PPA version I can find – that simply don’t work with Compiz.
Read more »Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops
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How to install sopcast player in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)
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SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks. Once SopCast Player is installed it simply "just works" with no required configuration.
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Novell and Microsoft both file summary judgment motions in the WordPerfect antitrust case
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Novell and Microsoft have each filed summary judgment motions in the antitrust litigation about WordPerfect that Novell brought against Microsoft. In addition, we find out what happened regarding the Bill Gates deposition. And neither party can find certain documents that might be in the Comes collection. I wonder if you can?
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Widelands (RTS Game): An Open Source Settlers I & II Remake
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Widelands is an open source (works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) real-time strategy game, built upon the SDL and other open source libraries. If you knew Settlers I & II (Bluebyte), then you already have a rough idea what Widelands is all about because Widelands is heavily inspired by those two games.
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Mandriva 2010 Screen Shots
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Mandriva is proud to introduce its brand new release: Mandriva Linux 2010, code name 'Adelie'. Included in this new release, 'Smart desktop' technology, coming from a European research project. Your desktop is tasks oriented. Organize your personal data (mails, documents, images, videos). Notate it, add your comments and tags. Now your data is easy to find through your projects.
Read more »Zend, Oracle Hook Up for Enterprise-Class Linux and PHP
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Zend Technologies has announced that it is working with Oracle to deliver an integrated and optimized enterprise-class Linux and PHP solution for deploying and managing business-critical Web applications. Zend's Web application server is now available through the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN). Zend Server also includes out-of-the-box enterprise-grade connectivity to Oracle Database.
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How to compile a kernel for Ubuntu Karmic
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I wrote this how to because my laptop has 4GB of internal memory and with the default kernel that ships with Ubuntu Karmic the entire 4GB is not addressed. Lets get started building our own custom kernel for Ubuntu Karmic from scratch.
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Google: Android fragmentation not 'bad thing'
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Google has defended its decision to allow unfettered Android tweaking, saying that although this may fragment the Googlephone market, it's what's best for developers.
Read more »Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation Moving Forward - without projects (so far)
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After nearly two months of life, Microsoft's open source CodePlex Foundation is now gearing up to accept projects, but it still has some work to do.
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What To Do When keyserver.ubuntu.com Is Down?
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You probably know that to use a Launchpad PPA repository, you must also import the GPG key. Lately, keyserver.ubuntu.com which we need to import the GPG key goes down quite often, so how can we solve this?
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Discovering "Sita Sings The Blues"
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"Sita Sings The Blues" by self-taught animator Nina Paley, may be the first feature-length animated film released under a free license (the Creative Commons By-SA). Presented through a variety of animation styles and narrative tones, it fuses apparently disparate ideas and sources into a unified whole.
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Explained
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This article talks about the author initial reaction on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and tries to explain it in an honest and simple way based on his testing and what he heard about the product roadmap. Also explains the controversial inclusion of Microsoft technology inside RHEV
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Open Source Subsumed by Microsoft and Blackboard
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A not-so-alarmist post pointing to news about attempts to embrace and extend "Open Source" (mostly by Microsoft)
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Linux for grandma & grandpa
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Like a lot of technically savvy people, I'm the default technical support person for friends and family. I've no problem with that, but I can't spend all my time answering my mother-in-law's questions and worrying about what malware she might stumble over. So, I put desktop Linux on her laptop - and ever since then I've had a lot fewer late night calls.
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FOSS, FUD and Freeloaders
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The open source community is, in my experience, a fairly friendly place for the most part. Seriously. Only rarely do I run into serious jerks in the FOSS crowd. When I do, though, the circumstances usually follow a pattern.
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