Full Circle Magazine is proud to announce its third issue.
It contains: Xubuntu install step-by-step - Alternative Disc!; How-To: Get a Stunning Ubuntu Desktop, Learning Scribus part 3 and Ubuntu in Photography; Review of Ubuntu on a Macbook; Preview of several new Compiz Fusion effects; Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, MyPC, Top5 and more!
Full Circle Magazine Issue 3 is out
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Google grabs Novell SA boss
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Novell South Africa country manager Stafford Masie has resigned in order to establish and head up the local operation of Internet giant Google.
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GIMP 2.4.0 Coming Soon
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The GIMP team is preparing for the release of GIMP 2.4.0. Today marks the release of GIMP 2.3.19, which fixes a host of issues to the point where most outstanding GIMP problems are now fixed or will be fixed in the very near future.
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Make UNIX and Linux work together
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Examine how to use the Network Information Service (NIS) to share core databases between Linux® and UNIX®, and how to use the Network File System (NFS) to share file systems, both with direct links and through the automounter.
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Installing allocPSA on Windows
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allocPSA (http://www.allocpsa.org/) is an open source, on-line (ie, web-based) Professional Services Automation system. allocPSA provides a suite of integrated applications designed for organisations which provide services to clients.
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How-To Configure “Hidden” Compiz/Xgl Effects
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One of the coolest things about Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) are its new “Desktop Effects”. Desktop Effects are really a combination of two opensource components written by Novell’s David Reveman, Compiz and Xgl.
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Open source telecoms partnership in KZN
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Linux company DcData and telephony solutions providers BizCall have entered a strategic partnership in order to provide IP telephony and Voice over IP (VoIP) services to the Kwazulu Natal market, forming BizCall KZN.
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OpenBSD Foundation opens its doors
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Yesterday the OpenBSD Foundation debuted as a Canadian nonprofit organization intended to serve as "a single point of contact for persons and organizations requiring a legal entity to deal with when they wish to support OpenBSD in any way."
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Seven RFID Organizations Support Open-Source
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A group of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology organizations today announced their support for the open-source development of EPCglobal-compliant Low-Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) software libraries, which enable EPCglobal UHF Gen 2 communications via the LLRP universal reader-to-network interface.
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Microsoft reveals it's open source side - round up
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Microsoft want to stop being seen as the big bad wolf and start celebrating their engagements with and support of various open source activities via a special website... and they are even submitting their shared source license to OSI for approval. Aw.
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Researchers Reveal Another Firefox Flaw
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"Mozilla ponies up a patch for yet another critical flaw in Firefox, the latest embarrassment in a lengthening list this month for the open-source browser."
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Installing Debian GNU/kFreeBSD in QEMU
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This is not exactly news but here's a nice tutorial on installing Debian GNU/kfreebsd in QEMU. Finally you can reply to questions like "Do you run linux?" with a proud "No, I run debian" :-) I'm still waiting for the day I can "apt-get install freebsd-image" to replace only the kernel and run my userland with freebsd's linux syscall support.
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Skype Found Guilty of GPL Violations
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A German court has ruled that Skype violated the GPLv2 selling a Linux-based phone without access to the source code...
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stellarium, A real-time realistic planetarium
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Stellarium is an education tools for those who enjoy astronomy. Stellarium present you the starry sky in different period of time, different locations and different directions in 3D.
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What I have learned through adopting Linux.
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I have learned that I don't have to be tied to Windows anymore. If I choose to use the Windows operating system, I can. Why would I do this? Some software may not work well through emulation, so I can use Windows. Most of what I do, does not require Windows, so it's much more secure than my Windows base applications.
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