This guide is specially designed to fix certain issues present with Ubuntu Hardy’s current implementation of PulseAudio and to enable equalized output.

In this interview we talk with Alexandre. In specific, we talk about:

* Developing an open source project in cadence with Windows
* Philosophies about how Linux should reach out to Windows users
* The leadership model used in the Wine project and deciding what goes in
* Deciding what applications to support and what to leave out

Even the smallest business or organization can benefit from an intranet. Information, documents, communication and more can be centralized in one web-based environment- accessible from anywhere, by anyone within the organization.

A few days ago, I wrote a blog entry stating that we need a new international standardization body. In this post, I would like to share some of my ideas regarding how to include more people, the general public, in international standardization efforts.

A Linux distro is basically someone saying: here’s a collection of packages that works well together, now keep it or change it as you wish.

I used to think that Gnome 1.4 was the Last Good Gnome. Because when Gnome 2.0 came along, everything I liked was gone. It was dumbed-down to the point of unusability, and the roadmap called for yet more dumbing-down. So I switched to KDE for my main workstation, and IceWM, XFCE, and Blackbox for lower-powered PCs. For all these years I haven't seen much to like in Gnome.

My wife often rolls her eyes at me, because once I find a new hobby I latch onto it as though life depended on it. The more arbitrary the nature of the hobby, the less she's impressed with it. So imagine her immense delight when, a year ago, the only thing I would talk about with her was Linux.

Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to release the code for its open-source server virtualization software Wednesday, and will make a commercial version of the xVM Server available next month.