By diving into Wikipedia's open volumes of edit histories, the software counts the degree to which any given contributor's work survives subsequent edits by other people. In general, the less tinkering your work on Wikipedia engenders, the more trustworthy you are deemed to be.
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Screenshots: VirtualBox’s seamless integration
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The new VirtualBox features seamless integration of Windows guest windows with Linux hosts. While I do not have a Windows copy at my hands at the moment a friend of mine made some screenshots and told me about his experiences.
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Shuttle goes Linux: small form factor (SFF) PC with SUSE Linux from Novell
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Shuttle Inc., SFF PC market leader and manufacturer of multi form factor solutions, now offers fully configured systems, based on Intel technology, featuring Novell SUSE Linux operating systems. The new aluminium SFF PCs can be individually configured in the Shuttle Systems Configurator, and come, ready-to-use, with a dependable 24 month Pick-up and Return service.
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Fx 3: Downloading Across Sessions Coming
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"The upcoming Fx 3 M8 (Milestone) release due out later this month will allow users to not only pause and resume downloads, but do so across sessions..."
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Creating interactive forms with OpenOfice.org Writer
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With OpenOffice.org Writer you can create any kind of form from simple questionnaires to sophisticated interactive tests. Here's how to create a simple quiz using the form tools, and how to add interactivity to it with a couple of macros.
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ATI/AMD's New Open-Source Strategy Explained
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The embargo is lifted so we can now share with you what AMD's new open-source strategy for ATI GPUs is all about. You may be in for a real surprise!
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Nuxified and Cluenet prepare a gaming tourney. You are invited!
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Nuxified.org and Cluenet.org are preparing to hold a Free Software gaming tournament. Its purpose is to promote gaming in the Free Software world, on operating systems such as GNU/Linux, and *BSD and show that gaming is not limited to proprietary platforms such as Microsoft's Windows.
We need feedback.
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Klik2 - a new Linux installer for the masses?
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The klik development team has recently released a screencast of the currently developed software system klik2. While currently in development klik2 is supposed too solve quite some problems regarding software usage and Linux once it is released. And indeed the current available information are very promising.
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Palm shakes hands with Linux
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My Palm Tungsten E had gone totally dead. I had to restore everything with a sync, and by some kind of magic, my Palm infrared keyboard suddenly started working again. So it was time to get the Palm and Linux talking to each other.
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Second generation Asus Eee PC to come April 2008?
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Asus is reportedly already planning to release their second generation Eee PC in April 2008 featuring Intel's Merom processor, reduced power consumption and no cooling fan...and will run a customized version of Linux worked out between Asus and Intel.
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Firefox: 400 million downloads
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"Today Firefox crossed the 400 million downloads mark as tracked by SpreadFirefox.com"
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A quick guide to DVD authoring
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If you have video footage that you want to capture, edit, and share with friends or family (or even use professionally), you'll be happy to know that you can do it all with open source tools. I'll show you how to author a DVD that can play on most home players.
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Best Linux Desktop Distribution for Home Users
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"What is a Best Desktop Linux Distribution for home users?” After many years of playing & experimenting around with lots of Linux distributions I have come to some understanding of this question. I will put my thoughts and understanding together here about what is the best desktop Linux distribution for home users.
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BSG: Beyond the Red Line on Ubuntu
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Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line is a 3D space combat simulation which takes place inside the Battlestar Galactica universe. The game is free, and the good folks over at Game Warden have also released a Linux client for it. Here’s how to get it up and running on Ubuntu.
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IBM's CoScripter: Greasemonkey for non-geeks
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"What do you get when you mix one part automation, one part natural language interpretation, two parts programming by demonstration, and three parts online collaboration? If you stir all of these research areas together and toss in some XUL, you get one of the most innovative extensions for Firefox: CoScripter."
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