From Bill Welty's perspective, the advantages of open source software extend far beyond cost savings. The CIO of California's Air Resources Board (ARB) said the real benefits involve increased agility, responsiveness to internal clients and team-building among his IT staff of 50
Read more »SCO Wants Novell's New Provisional Evidence Tossed --"We Played by the Rules"
SCO has filed a motion in limine, SCO's Motion to Strike Exhibits on Novell's Revised Exhibit List Not Previously Disclosed [PDF], seeking to strike some new exhibits from Novell's revised list of 26(a)(3)(C) pretrial disclosures.
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Ubuntu's displayconfig-gtk
The new displayconfig-gtk planned for the Gutsy Gibbon release.
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Multifunction Open-Source Solutions
As open-source software continues to grow, vendors are offering multipoint open-source solution bundles consisting of hardware, open-source software, consultation, configuration services, and support, making it much easier to purchase, deploy, and maintain these types of products.
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QEMU: Virtualization the easy way
If you run a modern Linux distribution, chances are that you already have all the necessary tools to run other distributions or even proprietary operating systems as well, all at the same time. You don’t have to be a kernel hacker to do this - just follow some simple steps explained here to get going.
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Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile
"Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc. This fact was originally discovered by using AppArmor
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Firefox Campus Edition Features Bundled Tools For Students
Continuing its string of branded versions of Firefox, Mozilla is set to release a “Campus Edition” aimed at students headed back to school.
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Widescreen Resolutions for Intel Display Cards In Ubuntu Feisty -- Ubuntu Geek
Many People have been having problems with Intel Graphics in widescreen so here is the solution how to fix this.
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Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile
""Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc..."
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Mozilla's Joey Seeks To Merge the Mobile Web with the Desktop Web
"...Here's how it works: someone can use Firefox to send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS content, and Live Bookmarks to a phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps all of the content up-to-date. The person can then use the phone's web browser or the Joey application on the phone to view and manage what has been uploaded..."
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Firefox Profiles
"Firefox profiles allows you to create multiple personas to use when starting Firefox. If you have Firefox, then you’ve already been using Firefox profiles, you just didn’t know it. Most people will probably only need the default profile and will never create others, but for web developers this is a must. So what do you do? It’s easy..."
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Microformats Introduction
"Microformats are little snippets of information that are semantically tagged so you know what they are..."
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Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: New Package Management
openSUSE 10.3 is set to contain a new, significantly improved and more mature package management stack by default. ZMD, the package management component causing problems in SUSE Linux 10.1 and to a lesser extent in openSUSE 10.2, has been completely removed and is now replaced by the new libzypp and its tools.
Read more »Why I Went Linux
I'm not a writer, but do things – like all those others out there e.g. run / work / play / have a life / use a computer / have a PDA. I don't hate, was frustrated, and took the Linux plunge because of what I mentioned. I took the personal initiative.
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Needed - The Two Percent Solution
The drive to get Linux advertised in the major media loop has begun. My associate Landy DeField and his Wife have reformated, revamped and rejuvinated the Tuxproject.com website. This is where we will make it all happen. I said we.
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