Brother is now developing drivers which are designed to work on Linux distributions, Redhat, Mandriva(Mandrake), SuSE, Debian and FedoraCore. We have developed two types of driver: LPR drivers and CUPS drivers.
Read more »
Zürich’s students get rid of “Windows Tax”
http://www.doink.ch –
Zürich’s two big universities (ETH and UZH) have a joint laptop discount program for all of their students and staff. Starting this fall, you can get these laptops without Windows, giving you a price reduction of ~76 Euro. This was made possible by a student’s organisation at the ETH.
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
What Linux distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?
http://lenovoblogs.com –
Add gNewSense as an answer and vote for loading gNewSense on lenovo as the default os.
gNewSense"http://www.gnewsense.org/"
A GNU/Linux distribution, that takes all the non-free blobs out of a rather popular distribution and makes it free.
Category: Business Tags:
- Login to post comments
Dell criticized over difficulty in selecting Linux
http://www.techspot.com –
Many people, myself included, have praised Dell for going back on years of marketing tactics and choosing to offer a desktop Linux distro as a standard option for people buying their machines. But are they making it easy to choose?
Read more »
Category: Business Tags:
- Login to post comments
Appeals Court Rules that Deceptive Conduct in Standard Setting can Violate Antitrust Laws
http://www.consortiuminfo.org –
While many of us have been preoccupied with the OOXML vote, the rest of the world has naturally been continuing to go about its business. One piece of business that took an interesting turn in the last few days is a ruling by a Federal Appellate Court in the United States that breaks new ground in protecting the integrity of the standard setting system.
Read more »
Category: Legal Tags:
Firefox passes 400 million downloads
http://news.com.com –
Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser.
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Getting Started with the Trolltech Greenphone SDK
http://www.linuxjournal.com –
Trolltech recently released many smartphone developers' dream combination-the Linux-based Greenphone and its open-source Qtopia Phone SDK. Qtopia inherits its API from Trolltech's flagship product Qt, a mature C++ application framework available for Linux/X11, Windows and Mac OS X. Qtopia is specifically enhanced for embedded Linux devices.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
Dell does Ubuntu, but the sales staff do not know it
http://www.daniweb.com –
It would appear that Dell is making life difficult for UK customers who want to buy a Dell PC running Linux. Being a snooping journalist myself, I went to have a look for myself and indeed it is a lot harder to buy a Linux powered Dell than all the hype, fuelled in no small part by the Dell PR machine of course, would lead you to believe.
Read more »
Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
http://www.roughtype.com –
The Adblocker plug-in, writes Noam Cohen in today's New York Times, has the potential to be an "extreme menace to the online-advertising business model.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Linux Community Chuckles at Slowdown Prediction
http://www.linuxinsider.com –
A slowdown is often viewed as a natural event in market dynamics, a maturing of a technology. "This is not a bad thing," said Clay Ryder, president of the Sageza Group. Linux uptake had been on a tear, Ryder said. The momentum continued as business buyers increasingly saw its value.
Read more »
Category: Business Tags:
- Login to post comments
ISO reforms proposed in response to OOXML shenanigans
http://arstechnica.com –
Late last month, evidence emerged indicating that Microsoft has used financial incentives to influence the outcome of Office Open XML (OOXML) fast-track approval in various national standards bodies. Although ISO ended up voting against fast-track approval for OOXML, the company's efforts have created doubts about the reliability of the standards process.
Read more »10 ways Linux can breath life into your old PCs
http://icanhaslinux.com –
Yesterday, I was trying to figure out what to do with a spare Athlon XP 1600+ box that I have. I wrote down some of my ideas and threw in some others I’ve used in the past. If you’re looking for ways to reuse that old PC, just peruse this list.
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
BitTorrent - downloading large files made easy
http://vertito.blogspot.com –
BitTorrent, an extremely handy tool on downloading large torrent files regardless of internet speed rate you have with interruption between connection breakups.
Read more »Category: Beginner Tags:
- Login to post comments
Sun CEO says NetApp aims to blunt open-source efforts
http://www.linuxworld.com –
Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday used his blog to dispute Network Appliance Inc.'s charge that Sun's ZFS file system technology infringes on seven NetApp patents.
Read more »Category: Legal Tags:
- Login to post comments
Snort on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - 6 part series
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au –
* Part 1: Introduction to Snort intrusion detection and prevention
* Part 2: Hardware and network setup requirements
* Part 3: Installation prerequisites
* Part 4: Compiling and configuration with MySQL
* Part 5: Configuring Snort and setting up rules
* Part 6: Editing the snort.conf file
- 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.
