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Firefox Mobile Alpha Coming in Weeks
Firefox Mobile in its pre-release alpha form will be released in a few weeks, according to Mozilla’s CEO. There is no specifics as to which platforms Firefox Mobile will be coming.
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News last week, Mozilla CEO John Lilly said, “The first thing is to bring Firefox to mobile [...]
IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: ‘Stop Copying Windows’
Company executives call on the open source community to do more to make Linux popular as a desktop OS for consumers and businesses.
IBM, whose decision to back Linux years ago was a driving force in its adoption by business, called on developers of the open-source operating system to make it more “green” and to [...]
VMware Joins The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that VMware has become a member of the Foundation. The company joins existing Linux Foundation members and technology leaders such as Adobe, AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola, NEC, Novell, Oracle and Red Hat, among others.
“A growing [...]
Why GIMP is Better than Adobe Photoshop
I’m no graphics professional, but like probably most of you, I do need to edit photos from time to time. I used Adobe Photoshop before since it is the most widely used image manipulating software. But when I started using Linux, things changed.
Since GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is included by default in most Linux [...]
Playstation3 + Linux = More Than a Toy
When Sony first announced that the PlayStation 3 would be able to run Linux natively, a great deal of excitement ensued. Early on, it was a bit of a challenge to get Linux natively installed. The supported installer ran [...]
Pidgin IM vs MSN Messenger
I am talking about the latest instant messaging client from the Gaim series, called Pidgin, which came after a long period of waiting and broke the download tops. Why Pidgin 2 and not Gaim 2 … the story begins a long time ago, when AOL used to complain about Gaim’s original name, GTK+ AOL Instant [...]
Review: Intel GMA X4500HD G45 IGP on Linux
Earlier this month Intel had announced the GMA X4500 series, which is their latest and greatest when it comes to integrated graphics processors. These IGPs were greeted by same-day Linux support (it had actually arrived before the chipset was announced), but it’s still next to impossible to find motherboards using the G43 and G45 Chipsets [...]
Ars Previews Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1
Mozilla took a big step towards Firefox 3.1 yesterday with the release of the first alpha. It includes important improvements to both the user interface and to Firefox’s underlying Gecko rendering engine.
Much of Firefox’s internal architecture was overhauled during the 3.0 development process. This means that Mozilla now has a much stronger foundation to build [...]
KDE 4.1: openSUSE Packages and Live CD
The KDE team today released KDE 4.1. The KDE developers, including the openSUSE KDE Team, have been working on it for the last six months. Lots of feedback from people trying out KDE 4.0 has gone into KDE 4.1, filling most of the gaps people experienced with the 4.0 releases. See the release announcement for [...]
KDE 4.1 Final Released
It has happened at last …. 6 months after the release of KDE 4.0, the KDE community today announced the release of the second feature release in the KDE 4 era - the magic number “4.1″.
Lots of changes have gone into this release and the KDE community hopes to be able to make most early-adopting [...]
KDE 4.1 - Are You Ready to Switch?
With KDE 4.1 final out soon many users again ask themselves if it is the right KDE version for them. While many features missing in KDE 4.0 are now available, the KDE project published a paper to help the users with the decision.
The KDE team has created a special page highlighting the pros and cons [...]
For Geek Cred, Try These One-Liners
In this context, a one-liner is a set of commands normally joined through a pipe (|). When joined by a pipe, the command on the left passes its output to the command on the right. Simple or complex, you can get useful results from a single line at the bash command prompt.
For example, suppose you [...]
Videos: Dolphin, Gwenview & More in KDE 4.1
Kde 4.1 release is getting closer and more video reviews are popping up on the net. If you are not, yet, aware of KDE 4.1 release schedule, the final version is expected to hit by the end of this month, i.e. July. KDE 4.1 is the first feature release for KDE 4.
Here is a nice [...]
El Tunes - Play iTunes DRM Purchased Music on Linux
El Tunes is a GStreamer plugin that allows Linux users to play all music they have purchased from the iTunes Music Store!
For years now, Apple has been slowly but surely gaining dominance in the market of online digital music distribution. Their iTunes Music Store now accounts for approximately 85% of all legal digital music purchases [...]
Open Source - What is the Total Cost of Ownership?
ActiveState’s Open Source White Paper - Find Out How to Manage the Risks Associated with Open Source Software.
In 2005, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems quipped that open source software was “free like a puppy is free.” Just as you can pick out a puppy from the pound without paying expensive breeder fees, you can download [...]
Atheros Releases 802.11n Linux Driver
GREAT news for all Linux users who were waiting for 802.11n support. Most of the Atheros excitement had been happening in the 802.11g realm, but the 802.11n Linux support for WiFi has received a big boost. Atheros had announced the release of the ath9k driver.
Last September MadWiFi was abandoning their proprietary HAL and really the [...]
Website for the KDE Utilities Launched
The family of KDE websites has got a new member, the site for the fine utilities applications from the module kdeutils. Despite being one of the first modules, kdeutils has always been without its own website. No longer. At utils.kde.org you can now find a lot of information about the KDE Utilities. See for yourself [...]
Say Hello to the Webbook
We don’t often talk directly about our business activities on this blog. But once in a while something happens that rightly deserves a mention.
Our Open Source consulting business, The Open Learning Centre, has been very busy of late. We’ve been working with a household name hardware manufacturer and a very well known high-street retailer to [...]
Parallels Workstation - Get Your Free Copy Now
Use Windows? Like Linux? Have it all on a single PC.
Parallels Workstation is an easy-to-use, easy-on-the-pocket solution that lets you run Windows, Linux and more side-by-side on a single PC without rebooting.
If you find yourself having to use Windows, but you’d rather be using Linux you can do it all on one single PC. The [...]
TheLinux411.com - Linux Business Resource Center From Intuit
Intuit’s new Linux Business Resource Center (www.thelinux411.com). The site is devoted to helping growing businesses embrace the capabilities and learn about using open-source software.
Developed in conjunction with the new capabilities of QuickBooks Enterprise 8.0 (Intuit’s mid-market ERP offering) to run on Linux servers, the site is designed to serve as a community for users to [...]
10 Essential Tricks for Linux Admins
Learn these 10 tricks and you’ll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe…well, maybe not the universe, but you will need these tips to play in the big [...]
Videos: Google Gadgets for Linux
Google Gadgets for Linux are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in web pages and other applications. By all accounts, Gadget support for Linux was a major undertaking for the Google team as it is an entire platform for mini applications. You can check out the source code for it on Google’s [...]
Wordpress For iPhone Officially Released
Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
It’s official, the WordPress application for the iPhone has officially been released. Now you’ll be able to publish to WordPress powered blogs right from your Jesus phone. Here is what you [...]
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