Things move pretty fast in the open source development world. A new kernel release comes out around every three months. Projects like GNOME, KDE, and PostgreSQL pop out releases every six months, as well as some major Linux distros. Open source development moves at a rapid and relentless pace. It's refreshing, then, to see an open source developer reminding people to have a little patience.
Read more »Sugar Learning Platform Will Succeed In Virgin Markets
I think it is time that Sugar Labs and Sugar developers to realize that the success or failure of Sugar does not depend on its ability to play YouTube videos. Not because is not important but because there is very little chance to penetrate this market dominated by Microsoft and Apple.
Read more »Filelight: Where my disk space has gone?
One task that every one should do it is deleting useless files. If you do not, you will run out of disk space inevitably. Then, you will wonder where my disk space has gone? Filelight is the answer to you. Filelight creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualize disk usage on your computer.
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The H Year: 2009's Wins, Fails and Mehs
Welcome to The H's look back at 2009. We've categorised events by what The H thinks was full of win, who was getting on the failboat and what made us just say "Meh". From the corporate giants and how they handled open source and the community to the battle to be the best browser, and from the best new open source to the worst mis-steps in the community.
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10 predictions for 2010
Larry the Free Software Guy would never let 2010 pass without a several timely forecasts. While this year lacks last year's inspiration, it would never stop him from making predictions like "2010 will absolutely, positively, without a doubt be the year of the Linux deskt . . . oh, never mind," and nine more.
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The Great Fallacy of BSD Unix vs. Linux
Linux is just a kernel." It's a commonly heard refrain amongst the arguments put forward by BSD Unix aficionados, and it is a true statement, but it is all too often abused to try to make a fallacious point.
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Centrify, Microsoft, and Software Patents
How Centrify is strengthening Microsoft's patent FUD against GNU/Linux; Microsoft's patent violations and attacks on GNU/Linux explored further
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2010: The Year Networks Are Decreed Neutral?
Long-frustrated network neutrality advocates headed into 2009 with high hopes.
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What's new in KDE SC 4.4 with Videos !
In this post, I will try to collect all the videos which talk about next KDE SC version. KDE SC 4.4 will be released on February 9th, 2010.
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Trying Out Single Window Mode on GIMP 2.7
The open source image editor known as GIMP doesn't need an introduction. Neither does its multi-window interface.
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Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010
Many new technologies are ready to make a big impact this year. Some of them will be brand new, but many have been gestating and are now ready to hatch. If there is any theme here it is the mobile Web.
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How to save Photos and Video from Webcam in Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Cheese
Cheese is a very good Utility for the GNOME Desktop which used for take photos, videos, and anything else you can think of with your webcam.
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Keryx: Portable, Cross-Platform Offline Package Manager For Ubuntu / Debian
Keryx is a portable, open source and cross-platform package manager for APT-based (Ubuntu, Debian) systems. It provides a graphical interface for gathering updates, packages, and dependencies for offline computers. It is similar to "Sushi, huh?", but easier to use and with a nice GUI.
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Software Engineering != Computer Science
Classical computer science is helpful to software engineering, but will never be the whole story. Good software engineering also includes creativity, vision, multi-disciplinary thinking, and humanity
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Making a game with Ogre 3D
This tutorial series steps you through the process of creating a 3D shoot'em'up game using the popular and powerful Ogre 3D engine. The tutorials compile on both Windows and Linux.
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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.




