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(Mar 19, 2010, 07:04 UTC) (862 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 5 practice management applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."
(Mar 19, 2010, 05:04 UTC) (1581 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Boycott Novell: "Summary: War is peace and Microsoft is the new “open”; Details on the latest attack of Microsoft against GNU/Linux, using proxies"
(Mar 19, 2010, 03:04 UTC) (1045 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Phoronix: "Phoromatic has been a huge success, but today we are announcing that Phoromatic has reached a 1.0 status and additionally we are providing the Ubuntu Linux community with a new performance tracker in collaboration with Canonical."
(Mar 19, 2010, 01:34 UTC) (965 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Serious Eats: "Carve Steve's head out of a block of mozzerella, add some black pepper for hair, stick on a pair of glasses, and you've got the perfect centerpiece for your iPad launch party."
(Mar 19, 2010, 00:04 UTC) (1152 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Serverwatch: "As cloud computing deployments ramp up, so too does the competitive battle for the cloud infrastructure technology supporting those deployments."
(Mar 18, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (1344 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) PC World: "We’ve identified eight species of “fanboys”--people who revere one tech platform above all others. Here’s what makes them tick."
(Mar 18, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (1263 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LinuxDevices: "Marvell announced its intent to deliver a $100, Android-ready tablet computer built around a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor. Aimed at students, the "Moby" will offer WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM receiver, and Adobe Flash compatibility, the company says."
(Mar 18, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (1124 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Amarok: "Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)."
(Mar 18, 2010, 22:03 UTC) (877 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Legal World and Childhood Dreams: "Summary: The paper explains how computer software is protected and the relationship between open source software and copyright."
(Mar 18, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (2843 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Datamation: "Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) is still six weeks away from release. However, on the eve of the first beta release, the daily builds and news releases suggest that Lucid will be one of the most innovative versions of Ubuntu for several years."
(Mar 18, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (1414 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Cyber Cynic: "In what may have been Google's worst kept secret in years, Google, along with its partners, Intel, Logitech and Sony, is on its way to delivering the Web to your television. What will they be using to do this? Why, they'll be using Google's Android Linux, of course."
(Mar 18, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (577 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Pro Magazine: "The activity I like the most is fixing bugs. It's one of the great things of open source and the one that I enjoy the most: by having the code available, I'm able to fix a program and make it do what I want without having to go through the original developer."
(Mar 18, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (1044 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Click: "I put a lot of stock on the ability to do an in-place upgrade of my Linux/Unix desktops. And regarding upgrades from one distribution to another, Debian is supposedly one of the best."
(Mar 18, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (1381 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Ghacks: "Recently (in my Pardus Linux article) Ghacks reader PeterB mentioned one of his favorite distributions Greenie Linux. Of course I had to give this a whirl and see what it was all about."
(Mar 18, 2010, 19:03 UTC) (2629 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux.com: "Common wisdom says that Linux lacks applications. Fortunately, the common wisdom is dead wrong on this, especially when it comes to productivity applications."
(Mar 18, 2010, 18:33 UTC) (883 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Planet: "Novell partners with database vendor Ingres to make it easier to build and deploy software appliances -- but what about MySQL?"
(Mar 18, 2010, 18:03 UTC) (1044 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Pro: "The Debian project was given a new server from Thomas Krenn AG, Intel and Adaptec for its image building. With the Dual-Xeon computer the build process was reduced from 20 to two hours."
(Mar 18, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (3084 reads) (5 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The Register: "Dell has told a Linux-loving Reg reader that he can't receive a refund on the copy of Windows 7 that shipped with his new Dell netbook because it was bundled with the machine for "free""
(Mar 18, 2010, 17:03 UTC) (2441 reads) (10 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Comment 167 for bug 532633: "This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But
we are not voting on design decisions."
(Mar 18, 2010, 16:33 UTC) (2620 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Handle With Linux: "Measuring at just 2 x 2 x 2.2 inches this is the smallest Desktop PC. And it's running Linux, one more point for Linux coolness."
(Mar 18, 2010, 16:03 UTC) (1595 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Thoughts on Technology: "All I have to say is: Man was I blown away.
What proceeded to run on my computer was quite possibly the most seamless non-distro specific package installation I have ever experienced."
(Mar 18, 2010, 15:33 UTC) (1796 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Tech Source: "Already, various thinkers about the future have proposed a number of candidates for the designation "twenty-first-century literacy." That is, what are the key skills humans must possess in order to be considered literate?"
(Mar 18, 2010, 15:03 UTC) (1932 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Not 403: "But it's sad to see how Oracle after Sun acquisition, is slowly shutting down this amazing open source project, marking it as "not strategic" and dismembering the few parts they think are worth for their own SSO product."
(Mar 18, 2010, 14:33 UTC) (744 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Softpedia: "Berry Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution based on Fedora and aimed mostly at the Japanese market."
(Mar 18, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (846 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Planet: "In a keynote address, Jim Whitehurst explains why open source has become more valuable as an enabler of innovation in the enterprise than a means to cheaper software."
(Mar 18, 2010, 13:33 UTC) (2351 reads) (4 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Wired: "More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments."
(Mar 18, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (1954 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Phoronix: "Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they are."
(Mar 18, 2010, 12:33 UTC) (1431 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Pro Magazine: "Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever."
(Mar 18, 2010, 12:03 UTC) (2269 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The Linux Critic: "Ever since I got up close and personal with LXDE a few months ago, I’ve had my eye out for a distro that had a solid instance of LXDE as its default desktop environment. LXDE is getting more press and more attention, but the number of distros that rely on LXDE is still pretty small."
(Mar 18, 2010, 11:03 UTC) (1205 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Groklaw: "Chris Brown was in the courtroom for us today. It was all Darl McBride today, and there also was some sparring over SCO expert, Christine Botosan, he reports. It looks like the jury will be hearing about Judge Dale Kimball's ruling after all, because Novell intends to ask her about what happened to the stock when he issued his rulings."
(Mar 18, 2010, 09:03 UTC) (1437 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) ZDNet: "In a Globe and Mail report, the insurance industry wants to use sites such as Facebook to collect and use background information collected to contradict any evidence you have used in your claim for damages."
