"To work with Ruby on Rails you first will need to install it. This guide will cover installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu..." -- Do not forget Rinari, a Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs ;)

For the next couple of Linux Monday posts, I'll be testing out my legacy Microsoft Office files in Open Office, Linux world's main alternative. This is, by necessity, a one-way test. Files in Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) can be opened in Open Office; the open source community recognizes the need.

Some time after Linux netbook started appearing, it became obvious that there was a problem. Every time a new manufacturer gets in to the business, they try to build a completely custom Linux system that is "easier." It is impressive the number of times this has been attempted and how many times it has horribly and completely failed at the goal of making things "easier."

...occasionally I run into press articles that "round up" a half dozen such marketing misdirections from various marketing departments in one place. The December 1 BusinessWeek article called "Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software" is such an article. And it's the second such multi-marketing-oriented misdirection article I've seen this week.

Crumpton, platform strategy manager at Microsoft Australia, had no idea of the passionate questioning he would come up against when he gave his talk, the last for the day, at a mini-conference titled "The Business of Open Source."

The ulimit programs allow to limit system-wide resource use using a normal configuration file - /etc/security/limits.com. This can help a lot in system administration, e.g. when a user starts too many processes and therefore makes the system unresponsive for other users.

In the last two instalments I discussed the collection of requirements, the creation of test cases based on those requirements, and the general setup of a test suite. In this, the final post in this series, I will cover execution of the cases, defect entering, and overall project quality.