Open source software and open standards were high on the agenda at the opening of the GovTech 2008 conference in Durban this morning.
Read more »Open standards key for SA govt - minister
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My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i
As soon as I heard the announcement from bright and bushy-tailed VMWare CEO Paul Maritz that the company was shortly going to be releasing their ESX 3i enterprise-class embedded hypervisor for free, I was absolutely thrilled.
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A Quick Look at OpenOffice.org Writer 3.0 Beta 2
OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta 2 is available in preparation for an official September release. Here are some quick first impressions of the Writer word-processor program.
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The “Ubuntu Experiment”
Microsoft has just launched a new advertising campaign, the “Mojave Experiment.” The idea of the new campaign is that a bunch of computer users who have negative impressions of Vista, but who have never used Vista, are shown a future version of Windows, codenamed “Mojave.” They are given a tour of this “new” version of Windows, asked for their impressions, and then told that “Mojave
Read more »Will a $19.99 Ubuntu Succeed Where the Free Version Hasn’t?
Canonical, the company behind the Linux distro Ubuntu, has collaborated with software distributor ValuSoft to sell a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04 into Best Buy retail stores.
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42 of the Best Free Linux Email Software
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 42 high quality Linux email applications, covering a broad spectrum of uses. There's a mix of desktop and server based applications included. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for all types of users.
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New Fork of Rinari
"I am maintaining a new Fork of Rinari hosted at github http://github.com/eschulte/rinari/tree/master. This is a fork of Phil's Rinari fork which is also hosted available at github..."
-- Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
* http://rinari.rubyforge.org/index.html
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Women in Linux
Women in Linux (or technology in general) has always been a rare breed. I have been very unsuccessful trying to make my female friends or family members getting interested in linux. So in my quest in getting more women interested in linux I have made this list of women who have actively contributed in linux community.
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Emacs and PHP tutorial: php-mode
"php-mode is responsible for syntax highlighting, indentation, and other major PHP-specific modifications to your editing environment. There are a number of PHP modes available for Emacs. In this project, you’ll learn how to set up the php-mode available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/ .
Read more »Make Your Ubuntu Desktop Rotate As a Cylinder/Sphere
For Linux users those who like to impress their friends with the the awesome Compiz eye candy and desktop effects, here is another new trick that you can show: make your desktop rotate as a cylinder or sphere.
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Neuros open set-top box puts Linux in living rooms
At the OSCON open source convention in Portland last week, Neuros CEO Joe Born explained how Linux-based embedded devices will bring open source to the set-top market and the consumer electronics space. He also demonstrated how to build applications for the Neuros OSD, his company's programmable DVR product.
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in which another mode of collaboration is set forth
"...Conspire is that tool. It builds a realtime repository synchronization platform on top of gitjour and then provides editor support on top of that so your edits are automatically committed, rebased, and refreshed with of the state of the network's conspiracy session.
As always with new software, there are a number of caveats: ..."
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Get to know the Linux Logical Volume Manager
Hard drives are slow and fail often, and though abolished for working memory ages ago, fixed-size partitions are still the predominant mode of storage space allocation.
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