If you are a new Ubuntu user coming from a Mac background, you might be disoriented by the placement of the minimize/maximize/close box on Ubuntu, which mimics Windows by default.
Read more »Put Close/Maximize/Minimize Buttons on the Left in Ubuntu
http://www.howtogeek.com –
Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
The era of open source negotiation
http://blogs.zdnet.com –
It is just possible the latest exchange of notes between Jonathan Schwartz and Linus Torvalds signals the start of a new era in business.
Call it the era of open source negotiation.
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Compiz and Beryl Future
http://www.phoronix.com –
Among the items [Quinn Storm and David Reveman] are planning next for the Compiz/Beryl project are new interfaces for applications, retained rendering interfaces, incrementally replace X11, standard API, and collaboration important. No new name has yet been decided for the merged Compiz and Beryl merge, but the merger should be completed within the next few months.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
Is Open Source complacent?
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com –
As you probably have heard or read about by now Microsoft has made another deal with another open source company. This time Linspire has signed a deal with Microsoft to license VOIP and Windows proprietary media formats and true type fonts. My question is why? There is no need as those technologies are already in the open source world.
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Torvalds gets heated about the FSF
http://www.ussg.iu.edu –
I'm damn fed up with the FSF being the "protector of freedoms", and also feeling that they can define what those freedoms mean.
The GPLv2 is a *legal*license*. And no, the FSF doesn't get to define what the words mean to suit their agenda.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Microsoft's true battlefront against Open Source
http://www.raiden.net –
All the recent huss and fuss over Microsoft's patent FUD campaign and their "we will sue you unless you pay us grievous amounts of cash" threatening of Linux is only the tip of the iceberg in a much larger war.
Read more »Category: Opposition Tags:
- Login to post comments
20 Firefox Extensions That Will Save You Money
http://www.savingadvice.com –
Immerse yourself in Firefox goodness while indulging your inner frugal fantasies. Here are 20 extensions that are sure to help you save some cash.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
How does License Proliferation effect medical software and what can we do about it? How to choose a license for your medical software project? What are the implications for the medical FOSS community of various software licenses? This is intended to be a complete guide to free and open source software licensing for medical software. Please comment on how I can make it better.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Microsoft Upgrades, Apple Revises, Linux Rests in Zen
http://www.linuxinsider.com –
Microsoft's Vista is out and Apple's Leopard is poised, but as far as Linux goes, well, hey, it's open source. That means there aren't millions of dollars in the piggy bank for a catchy media blitz. Quite frankly, if its last major revision was in 2003, why would there be? Linux has gotten so efficient that major releases have been repeatedly postponed because of lack of need.
Read more »
Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
Linspire joins the plot
http://www.groklaw.net –
Microsoft has signed another patent deal, this time with Linspire. I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Fedora 7 Rivals Ubuntu's Ease of Use
http://www.maximumpc.com –
In a review by Maximum PC, Fedora 7 was described as rivaling Ubuntu's ease of use. Is it time you checked out this GNU/Linux distribution?
Read more »
Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
Intuit offers Linux users QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
http://www.desktoplinux.com –
There are financial programs for Linux, but none of them have achieved the incredible mindshare of Quicken. Now, Intuit has decided to give Linux a try with its release on June 13 of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions—Intuit's financial and business management software for mid-market companies.
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 fixes bugs, enhances security
http://www.desktoplinux.com –
The OpenOffice.org community yesterday released a bugfix and security update of the latest OO.org release and dubbed it version 2.2.1. No new features have been added since version 2.2 was released in late March, a team spokesperson said in the release announcement.
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
Air Force Base Receives Top Red Hat Innovation Award
http://www.localtechwire.com –
Voters in the first Red Hat innovation awards program have given a collective salute to programmers at Hill Air Force Base in Utah.
Participants in the online campaign picked the Hill base information technology team as the winner among six individual category winners that were announced at the recent Red Hat Linux software developers conference in San Diego.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Jonathan Schwartz replies to Linus regarding ZFS and GPLv3
http://blogs.sun.com –
"Despite what you suggest, we love where the FSF's GPL3 is headed. For a variety of mechanical reasons, GPL2 is harder for us with OpenSolaris - but not impossible, or even out of the question. This has nothing to do with being afraid of the community (if it was, we wouldn't be so interested in seeing ZFS everywhere, including Linux, with full patent indemnity)."
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Read contents from Free Software Magazine
Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
