Nine years after it first played host, Brisbane has been awarded the rights to host the Australian national Linux conference again.
Read more »Brisbane to host LCA 2011
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Linux Desktop Environment Innovation Nonexistent
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As a current GNOME user and former KDE user, I'd like to know when we can expect some new innovations from either of these desktop environments?
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On freeing a RawTherapee project
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The author, Gabor Horvath, states some interesting reasons for freeing the whole thing; personally think the "family" argument is the strongest one, and it’s important to spend time with your (small) kids. Of course, at 10 months you can still code with the baby on your tummy.
Read more »But Linux has so many little things wrong with it!
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The time has come. You have heard so much about this Linux operating system. Everybody seems to be raving about it. Just about every job description for Information Technology has the words Linux knowledge bandied about in them. It's time, you think, to give this Linux the good old college try.
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7 deadly sins of Java software developers
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Working at Lucid Imagination gives the opportunity to analyze and evaluate a great many instances of Solr implementations, running in some of the largest Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the smallest start-ups.
Read more »Camp KDE 2010 Continues with More Talks
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The second day of Camp KDE was filled with many more interesting talks. This day's talks were of the more technical nature versus the first day, and the KDE team took notes. As usual, the talks were recorded and videos will be available soon. A detailed rundown of the second day of talks are behind the link. The second day started with a keynote by Frank Karlitschek about KDE vs.
Read more »Linux.conf.au - Day Three
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The glorious weather that had punctuated the first two days of the conference held, heralding in the third day in a blaze of sunshine. The conference proper was introduced by a keynote by Benjamin Mako Hill on Antifeatures: Why your software works against you and why software freedom offers hope of a better future.
Read more »From India with code
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With its massive pool of programming talent, it is no wonder that India has taken pride of place among the countries competing to attract IT outsourcing.
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LCA 2010: How FOSS spreads to the home
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Shane Geddes is one of the first batch of students to enrol in New Zealand's first high school that uses only free and open source software - the Albany Senior High School in Auckland.
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2010: The Year the Desktop OS No Longer Matters?
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Last Friday, Sam's Buffer Overflow run-down featured a piece by Walter Koenning discussing why campaigning hard for Linux on the desktop is selling open source -- and the operating system -- short.
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Why Canonical’s move to bring close-sourced applications to Ubuntu is a good thing
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A few days ago, there was a post in Ubuntu Forum asking for user’s feedback on what applications they would like to see in Ubuntu. The surprise part was that the list of softwares has close-sourced softwares. Of course this has created a lot of ruckus as Ubuntu has always been about open source.
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Speak up!
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Over the past couple of months, I’ve read several times and in several places about how Linux desktop usage makes us less than 1% of the worldwide operating system market. 1%! That’s nothing! We should all just give up and go home!
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Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says
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A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle Corp. shows proof that it will invest as heavily in the development of open-source productivity suite as project champion Sun Microsystems Inc. did.
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Why Firefox Is Hardly Doomed
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Even as Mozilla rolls out Release Candidate 2 of its Firefox 3.6 browser update, and is only days away from the official release, some are convinced that the upstart open source browser is doomed. However, Mozilla’s director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner, provides some good reasons why it isn’t.
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Kernel contributor says Linux community 'can be intimidating'
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Linux guru concerned by exclusivity of kernel community, but says it's doing well regardless
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