Bandwidth Vista 2, The Next Generation bandwidth monitor with GEO-IP Connection Mapper. Displays Real-Time TCP and UDP Connections including Country and City. Holds a full log of bandwidth usage. New to Bandwidth Vista 2 is Voice Alerts and a Whois Lookup Tool and two kinds of graph.
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PclinuxOS, radically simple: Plug ‘n Play
http://mckooiker.byethost5.com –
The article I am writing is about PCLinuxOS, but probably is not very different for other Linux distributions. A few weeks ago I installed PCLinuxOS for the first time and was impressed by the ease of stabilizing my internet connection and the speed of installation. Since that first day PCLinuxOS managed to surprise me several other times.
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101 uses for a dead distro
http://kmandla.wordpress.com –
I’ve been spending a rather inordinate amount of time trying to get the ugly little laptop working with the corpse of Lowarch. I know, it’s a lost cause, but it’s not without some success.
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Mr Wikipedia's knowledge quest
http://www.nzherald.co.nz –
"He's a one-time futures trader and the force behind one of the internet's most successful sites - and unlike many of his peers he hasn't sold out to big business for billions. It's all done in the name of free knowledge for all, he says.
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An update on the thriving field of product hacking and open hardware
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net –
"Canadian Stephen Vermeulen keeps a regularly updated list of open hardware initiatives, which he calls product hacking. This is a good occasion to refer readers to our own page, which contains a full listing with links, on the various projects we know of. Go to that page for the links and further exploration..."
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Gobuntu: A Truly Free Linux Distro or a Free Drivers Experiment?
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com –
"It has nothing whatsoever to do with Freedom," argues one of Gobuntu’s contributors. The contributor, Keith G. Robertson-Turner, is a longtime, passionate advocate of free software. Before joining Gobuntu, he was among the first package maintainers on the Fedora project. Yet recently he opted to leave the Gobuntu project after what he sees as continued disappointment.
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Rails 2.0: Release Candidate 1
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com –
"We’ve been taking our sweet time, but now it really is almost there. We’ve just pushed new beta gems to gems.rubyonrails.org and created the rel_2-0-0_RC1 tag. So this is shaping up to be the last chance to raise concerns for Rails 2.0 before we go final in oh-so-shortly..."
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Why try another Linux distro?
http://www.itwire.com –
I've been a full-fledged Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon user for more than a week now, I'm completely off Microsoft Windows and I couldn't be happier. For some reason, however, I keep getting emails and posts urging me to try other supposedly superior Linux distributions for newbies - PCLinuxOS and SimplyMEPIS, among others. Intrigued, I have decided to check this out for myself.
Read more »Becky Hogge, Open Rights Group, on the BBC, iPlayer and DRM, interviewed by Sean Daly
http://www.groklaw.net –
Becky Hogge: "The Open Rights Group is a digital civil liberties organization based in the UK. We've been going since 2005, and we were founded by a community of one thousand concerned UK citizens who thought that the UK needed a body to inform public debate and put pressure on public policy when it came to digital civil liberties issues.
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Ubuntu 7.10 - Not the Linux I Knew and Loved
http://www.nitevilla.net –
I have been a big supporter of Ubuntu over the last few years and I have been using Ubuntu for many, many releases. I turned several friends onto Linux using Ubuntu and one of them has been quite excited about the operating system. Over the past year or so the Linux fan boys have been pushing eye candy on Ubuntu touting it as ahead of both Microsoft and Apple's desktop operating systems.
Read more »Certified Open: Welcome to life after ICT lock-in
http://mail.fsfeurope.org –
"Vendor lock-in has become the primary problem for IT decisions in general and Free Software adoption in particular. It distorts the market and denies Free Software solutions equal competition on the merits. The problem has been that many lock-ins are invisible, for example reliance on proprietary protocols or needing to use certain document formats.
Read more »Vista vs. desktop Linux: One year in
http://www.desktoplinux.com –
After almost a year since Microsoft released Vista to manufacturing, it's time to re-evaluate it and decide if it's finally the equal of the best of the desktop Linuxes.
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openSUSE Guiding Principles Take Effect
http://news.opensuse.org –
It’s official: the openSUSE project Guiding Principles are now in force. The Guiding Principles are a framework for the project and give everyone a clear view of who we are, what we stand for, what the project wants and how it works. The Guiding Principles document was created by the openSUSE community and is embraced by Novell - the founder and largest sponsor of the openSUSE project.
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How to host a free software advocacy event
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
On 2 Nov 2007, the Free Software Foundation Europe held an event in London, UK called "Free Software as a Social Innovation" to which I was fortunate to be invited.
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