September 28th, 2007 Administrator
It’s refreshing to see that a company as big as Novell has dedicated an employee to developing open source drivers for companies, if and when they need them. While many companies have yet to begin even thinking about developing open source drivers, there are a few who have been providing Linux based drivers for a few years now and there are some who have recently seen the light and decided to join in. Anyways, back to Novell. Novell employee (Greg KH) has written up some pretty interesting information on his personal website - http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/linux_driver_project_kickoff.html - about how the Linux Driver Project began and what it is currently developing into in light of the recent change in his position at Novell. Be sure to visit Greg’s site for information on this project and also check out the Linux Driver Project to see what you can do to help develop open source drivers for Linux.
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September 15th, 2007 Administrator
This is something I’ve personally been waiting a while for and the day has kind of come. The GIMP developers have set up a blog for users to submit ideas for possible UI redesigns to the application. I’ve always felt that it’s a little scattered but it’s not unusable by any means. Considering it’s completely free and has the capabilities that it has, it’s a really well developed program.
Visit the redesign blog here.
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June 28th, 2007 Administrator
For anyone that’s a follow of the open source community, I think you all know how big of a deal the GPL 3 release is. Especially considering all of the bickering that’s gone on with how it should be writtent and all that good stuff. At any rate, the Free Software Foundation’s website will have live footage of Richard Stallman busting out the new version of the GPL. Be sure to visit the website tomorrow to catch the footage.
Today, the Free Software Foundation announced that version 3 of the GNU General Public License will be released on Friday, June 29 at noon (EDT). Live video footage of the GPL’s unveiling by Richard M. Stallman will be available as a stream on the FSF’s website.
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June 6th, 2007 Administrator
For all you Mac users out there that don’t want to pay an arm and a leg to get the Mac version of Office, Slashdot has just posted some information on an alpha released of OpenOffice that can be used without requiring X11 to run. For those that have attempted to use the other version that did require X11, you know how much of a relief this is. But beware of the current state of the program as it is only alpha. Read the article clip below for more details.
From the article:
Nearly 6 years after announcing a Mac port, OpenOffice.org has released the first release of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X that can finally run without X11!! An alpha is available for download today, but a lot of help is still needed to make OpenOffice.org available for Mac OS X. The site is very blunt: ‘WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. This is an alpha test version so that developers and users can find out what works and not, and make comments on how to improve it.’ Currently missing functionality includes printing, pdf export, copy/pasting, and multiple monitors. That said, if you’re interested in participating you can visit the Mac team to figure out how you can help today.
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June 4th, 2007 Administrator
Many of you audio visual fanatics probably follow what goes on in the realm of the avsforum.com website. While searching around for information on the LinuxMCE software, I just happened to find a post on the avsforum.com site that compares MythTV to Vista MCE and man is it a long one. This guy gave an insanely thorough examination of the two different applications. If you’re trying to decide between the two of these applications then I suggest hitting up the AVSForum.com site and check out the haps.
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March 19th, 2007 Administrator
Everyone knows Mozilla for Firefox first and Thunderbird second. These are applications that I frequently use myself at home and at work. By way of the mozilla.dev.planning list, a discussion has started about the possibility of a Mozilla Desktop Environment. I immediately see some pros and cons to this idea. The first thing (a pro) is that the environment would probably rock because Mozilla knows how to make a nice application. The second thing (a con) is that I regularly see Firefox crash and it’s really frustrating. It makes me wonder how the desktop environment would perform. If this concept does come to life then I would definitely give it a try to at least see how well it works.
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March 15th, 2007 Administrator
After great amounts of focused development, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been released. The new release comes with more tightly integrated virtualization technology and better support for hardware amongst other much awaited features.
A major addition to this Red Hat release is the Red Hat Exchange (RHX). This service will act as a means for “deploying commercial, third-party open-source applications.” And with this, consumers can also purchase support for the applications.
From the Slashdot article:
“Red Hat has a new release out for Enterprise Linux, reports Ars Technica. Along with several anticipated new features, Enterprise Linux 5 marks the rollout of the RedHat Exchange (RHX), which will be a source for commercial third-party software applications. ‘RHX will allow consumers to buy software support services for third-party open-source technologies like MySQL database software and SugarCRM customer management systems directly from Red Hat … Linux vendor Novell, which recently partnered with Microsoft to provide stronger Windows interoperability, is already carving out a growing portion of the enterprise Linux market. Red Hat also has to contend with proprietary database vendor Oracle, who now offers commercial Linux support for Red Hat users.”
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March 15th, 2007 Administrator
The folks at Core Security have reported on an OpenBSD exploit that was found. The Core Security website titles the exploit’s as “OpenBSD’s IPv6 mbufs remote kernel buffer overflow”. This is certainly something that you don’t see every day. OpenBSD’s always been known for it’s ability to lead the pack of secure operating systems. Thankfully the OpenBSD team works quickly and have pushed out a security fix for the issue.
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March 14th, 2007 Administrator
Today was the release day for GNOME 2.18 (code name “Simply Beautiful”). I still prefer KDE over GNOME any day of the week but there are times that I feel like I should give GNOME a chance. Ever since I read an interview with some of the guys from GNOME in Linux Magazine I never really cared for them. They seemed like they didn’t really like the KDE boys for whatever reason. But to get to the point, GNOME definitely looks like its interface is becoming more polished and clean. Feel free to check out the release notes.
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March 12th, 2007 Administrator
For the longest time, the Trolltech site has had information on the Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone but there was never really a place that had a review of the device. I’ve always wondered how well the Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone performed and now someone has done a review that details its features and capabilities.
The review’s pretty lengthy and the phone seems to have a lot of nice features. It’s got bluetooth, 312 MHz processor, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. Sure the camera quality is sort of low but it’s a Linux based phone so you have to take what you can get. If it weren’t $695 I might be interested.
Check out the review here.
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