In just a few short days our choices in desktop operating systems seem to have tripled. Not only has Dell agreed to distribute Linux on certain desktop models, but it’s also given XP a new lease on life. Responding to user requests on its Ideastorm site, Dell has agreed to offer consumers the option to [...]
Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional BitTorrent client for Firefox that works cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and has a very cool additional feature - the ability to stream files as they are downloading.
This is no Azureus (my BitTorrent client [...]
Pagestream is a proprietary desktop publishing program for Linux, Windows, Macintosh, and Amiga. First developed for the Atari more than two decades ago, it is produced by a small company, but has attracted a loyal and active group of users. Pagestream’s strengths include an easy-to-use interface and a strong awareness of typography, but in the [...]
Wireless networking on Linux is entering a new era. An era of bliss and ease; where users and network administrators have abundant time for relaxing lie-abouts on sunny warm hills because their wireless systems are humming along contentedly, instead of being vexing and unreliable.
(Oh please, I hope that this writer is correct,Baldy)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install the free VMware Server (version 1.0.2) on a Debian Etch system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems [...]
Adobe is making an aggressive push into open source with its plans to release the code for its Flex platform. The Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License in the second half of 2007. At the same time, though, Adobe will continue to make the Flex SDK and other [...]
They used to call women like my long-suffering missus “Computer Widows” because so many men like me spent their evenings hunched over 15-inch CRT monitors messing around with things like text disk operating system commands and bulletin board servers. There was no World Wide Web yet and we hobbyists could only exchange e-mail by [...]
Vendors challenge coders to port apps across platforms
A Canadian software developer has won an international programming competition aimed at changing perceptions about the challenge of porting .Net applications to Linux.
Mark Cafazzo, who works at NorthCore Technologies in Toronto, took the grand prize in a contest called “Race to Linux” that was jointly sponsored by San [...]
OpenOffice.org and business intelligence software maker Pentaho on April 20 announced a deal to include the latter’s open source reporting engine in OpenOffice.org’s next feature release. “Report Designer” will serve as an extension to the free office suite’s database application, “Base.”
Report Designer aims to give business users the ability to create sophisticated business intelligence reports [...]
What is Arch Linux?
Arch aims to be a simple distribution for the experienced Linux user. It brings another package management solution to the fray, “pacman”. It uses a rolling release system so major periodic releases are not necessary as the system can easily be brought fully up-to-date.
Arch Linux doesn’t aim to showcase all the latest [...]
