Linux itself does not represent any great departures from previous technologies, but has led a technological revolution that is predicated on free software licensing.
Read more »Mail server benchmarking with Postal
The Postal project includes three programs aimed at benchmarking mail server performance. The main program, postal, sends email messages to a specified list of destination addresses at a specified rate. Postal can let you see how fast your system can process incoming email and thus can help you measure improvements to your mail server when you are making software and hardware changes.
Read more »Alex Brown Deceives on Microsoft OOXML
The convenor of the OOXML BRM pretends the appeals against his BRM don't count
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Windows Now Open Source
The news is here, today 'LinuxTreat' in association with other open-source developer had released some flavor of Windows for free (you may also download the source code)
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GIMP 2.5.2 Development Release
"Getting closer to GIMP 2.6, the GIMP developers released another snapshot from the 2.5 development series..."
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Linux guru? then switch to Arch Linux!
It's official, I've ditched Debian (and Ubuntu) completely. All my computers are now running Arch Linux. Why did I switch? It's more stable, faster, updated more frequently and more customisable. Let me explain some of the main differences.
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“ODF Has Truly Won,” Say OOXML Voices Again
The Microsoft-faithful go out of their way to say that OOXML has lost to ODF?
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The Easy Way To Convert Binary To Decimal
Response to some criticism of the past two posts, mostly regurgitated from my interactions on other sites, and a little line of code.
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Improve system performance by moving your log files to RAM
The Ramlog project lets you keep your system logs in RAM while your machine is running and copies them to disk when you shut down. If you are running a laptop or mobile device with syslog enabled, Ramlog might help you increase your battery life or the life of the flash drive on your mobile device.
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BSNL EVDO on GNU/Linux
A simple how to for configuring the BSNL EVDO connection in GNU/Linux.
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Software Freedom and Web Applications
A great article by Aaron Swartz on the rise of Free Software, Web Apps, and where our Freedom stands.
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Awk by example, Part 1
Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
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Richard Stallman: Free Software and Beyond
"Conference by Richard M. Stallman at the First International Conference Free Knowledge, Free Technology - Education for a free information society in Barcelona (Spain), 15 July 2008, on the production and sharing of free educational and training materials about Free Software..."
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Offline Wikipedia for Linux
Did you know that it's possible to view the content of the biggest and most widely used online encyclopedia without the need for Internet connectivity? That's right, Wikipedia, with over 10 million articles in 253 languages can be viewed offline in your Linux box anytime, anywhere.
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FreeRunner first impressions
"OpenMoko's FreeRunner went on sale on July 3. I ordered early that day and my FreeRunner arrived today..."
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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.






