Sun Microsystems and Oracle offer insight into the motives behind accelerating their involvement in open source projects. Matthew Sacks describes how these major players are pioneering their own software products by more actively using open source and virtualization technologies.

"The elections have come shortly after FLISOL 2009 free software install fests were held throughout Ecuador, where the showing of free software’s philosophy of freedom, community and co-operation may have greatly swayed election results..."

The purpose of this Ubuntu 9.04 tutorial is to show you the steps to setting up a kernel that is highly tuned for your CPU, in this case a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading for a workstation.

Step #1: Download and install the necessary tools...

THURSDAY was a very important day. Glyn Moody called it "A Day to Remember" and not just because of the release of Ubuntu 9.04. As we explained before [1, 2, 3], Microsoft reported a huge drop in earnings which shows, as Moody puts it, that "the Microsoft money machine is faltering." This is not particularly shocking.

After a while of using vi I started to appreciate it's tremendous power. Nowadays I use it whenever I can. I must say vi has a steep learning curve but when you get past the first steps and have the feeling of the interface it's an incredible time-saver.

For so long i have been waiting for something like this to be put together, and finally FreeGovernment.org has arrived!

Searching for that one last useless thing to round out your collection? We may have found it!

Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patterns.