My Favorite Projects 1/5 - Jono BaconStreamTuner - working without
music is a bit like going out on a date with Mr T, its possible but
not all that much fun. StreamTuner is a little GNOME application that
provides a directory of online radio stations that you can listen too.
When you are bored of your music collection, StreamTuner can hook you
into anything from Christian Gangsta Rap (yes, it does exist) right up
to Extreme Metal.
Few of Google's projects, rumors of projects, and acquisitions have generated as much envy among Linux users as Google Earth. In some respects the search engine behemoth is quite OS-agnostic, but the 3D virtual globe remains limited to Windows desktops only. But there is an alternative. NASA's World Wind project -- like Google Earth -- is a 3D planetary visualization system that overlays satellite imagery, weather, political, and topological map data. Zoom in and look for your childhood home, fly past your favorite landmarks, study the coastlines for continental drift -- you have all of the same options. The only difference is that World Wind is open source.
Published Sep 28, 2005 - 06:15 AMRead more... Comment
Your company is finding that tech hiring is on the rise, and one of the reasons is increased reliance on open source. What are companies looking for and what has your internal hiring experience been?
Published Sep 28, 2005 - 06:00 AMRead more... Comment
The next version of the General Public License may tackle the issue of Web companies that use free software in commercial Web-based applications but don't distribute the source code.
Published Sep 28, 2005 - 05:00 AMRead more... Comment
Firefox is a free web browser. It is one of the products of the Mozilla open source software project, supported by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is an application platform. You can write applications and extensions that install and run on top of Firefox. Firefox is a feed reader. It supports auto-discovery of RSS and Atom, with features to integrate feeds into bookmarks. Firefox is a way of life. There have been over 90 million downloads since Firefox 1.0 was released in November, 2004.
Published Sep 28, 2005 - 04:30 AMRead more... Comment
The kind of hardware you buy can have a profound effect on the success of your business, but choosing among the available options is now tougher than ever. The advent of inexpensive, binary-compatible 64-bit processors has introduced a new facet to the decision-making process. The "early adoption" phase is over, and affordable 64-bit computers are stampeding toward businesses of all kinds. Should you stay 32-bit or go 64-bit? In as non-technical a manner as possible, here is a crash course on 64-bit hardware, the software that runs on it, and how it affects performance.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 02:00 PMRead more... Comment
A slew of major computing companies announced a new partnership Monday to help speed the development and adoption of software for Itanium-based servers, a warmer move than those Dell, IBM and Microsoft have taken regarding Intel's high-end chip.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 12:00 PMRead more... Comment
Auction firm Bonhams is embracing open source, the company's global CIO, Roland Whitehead, told the Triple i Convention.
It is phasing out Microsoft Exchange and has no plans to migrate to Windows 2003. The auctioneer is planning to stop using Microsoft Word. In future all documents will go through Bonhams' core system using PDF files.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 11:30 AMRead more... Comment
SSH Communications Security Corp., a provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security and the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol, announced this week the availability of Version 5.0 of its SSH Tectia client/server solution and SSH Tectia Manager 2.0.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 11:00 AMRead more... Comment
Citadel is an open source groupware server that has its roots in online communities. You may remember the Citadel BBS's of the 1980's and 1990's; today's groupware platform is of the very same pedigree. But to write off Citadel as an overgrown BBS package does not do justice to the powerful abilities of this impressive platform. While most groupware systems center around the automation of business processes, Citadel offers a platform that you can build a community around. It centers around the idea of connecting people together in real time using a set of tools that focuses on people, not processes.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 10:30 AMRead more... Comment
Trusted Computer Solutions, Inc., a leading supplier of information sharing technologies to the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and commercial industry, together with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, and IBM, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in Common Criteria evaluation on a broad range of IBM eServer systems. This evaluation will mean that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux meets government security standards for assured information sharing within and across government agencies.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 10:15 AMRead more... Comment
I'm proud and excited to announce the first Release Candidate of MySQL 5.0. This milestone signals that we are nearing what is certainly the most important release in MySQL's history.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 09:55 AMRead more... Comment
PC-BSD has as its goals to be an easy to install and use desktop OS, which is built on the FreeBSD operating system. To accomplish this, it currently has a graphical installation, which will enable even UNIX novices to easily install and get it running. It will also come with KDE pre-built, so that the desktop can be used immediately.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 08:10 AMRead more... Comment
Dell is bringing the new 2.8GHz chip to all of its dual-processor servers and to two workstation models. The products will begin shipping in October, said Neil Hand, Dell's vice president of worldwide enterprise marketing. Until then, he said, Dell is only taking orders from customers who agree to hold details under wraps.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 08:00 AMRead more... Comment
As the dust settles from aKademy 2005, the annual KDE conference, it's a good time to take a look at what the KDE developers are working on. Though KDE 3.5 isn't even out yet, developers are already working on KDE 4. Plenty of work has already gone into porting existing code to Qt4, the GUI toolkit upon which KDE is based, and KDE developers are working on projects that could radically change how the world's most popular free desktop looks and works.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 08:00 AMRead more... Comment
Most open source projects are born of necessity. Individuals need code for specific purposes, so they start writing it. Maybe other people could use it, too, so they start a project on SourceForge. The earliest users are typically developers who also need to use the code. If the project takes off, then more developer-contributors join the community. At some point, projects usually settle into a routine of core contributors. As the project gains popularity, the user base is likely to shift more towards users who do not contribute code. These users add value to the project by submitting bug reports and spreading information about the project to peers.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 07:00 AMRead more... Comment
DistroWatch reports - MCNLive is a Mandriva-based live CD developed by MandrivaClub.nl in The Netherlands. This new English-only pre-release, code name "Jordaan", is a freshly build distribution from the current Cooker (Mandriva's development branch). It features the XFce desktop, the new ad-free Opera 8.50, Mandriva Control Center, and a set of multimedia applications - all that and more on a 200MB live CD.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 05:35 AMRead more... Comment
This is part two of three on live Linux distributions that I've been testing out. The second live CD distro I tested was PCLinuxOS Preview .91. This distro is referred to as being "Desktop Ready Software."
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 05:29 AMRead more... Comment
Last month, Chinese Red Flag Software, Japanese Miracle Linux, and South Korean HaanSoft jointly released the GNU/Linux-based operating system Asianux 2.0. The three companies will package and sell Asianux 2.0 under their individual brand names.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 05:28 AMRead more... Comment
Embedded software developers put Baskin-Robbins to shame when it comes to dishing up a large variety of operating systems flavors. The swirl of Linux permutations alone puts a rocky road in front of those seeking a smooth ride for reuse and modularity of device code.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 05:00 AMRead more... Comment
Each new release of Fedora Core brings with it new possibilities. Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Core 4: The Complete Reference by Richard Petersen makes a special effort to incorporate the latest developments of Fedora Core as well as Linux in general. Critical changes have taken place with device management (udev and HAL) and software access, as well as new capabilities like GFS (Global File System). We caught up with Richard to talk about his view of Fedora Core 4. Some standard concerns still remain, and there is the ever present competition with that other OS.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 04:30 AMRead more... Comment
Thinking small -- small business, that is -- Tiny ERP is taking a small and midsized business-friendly approach to enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Even though the company only has 12 implementations under its belt, its ERP suite -- also named Tiny ERP -- is a mature entity, said founder Fabien Pinckaers, a fact he says is demonstrated in the release of a new 3.0 version.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 03:54 AMRead more... Comment
With 61 votes to favor 0 in against and 5 abstentions from a total of 66 congressmen, the congress of the republic has approved this late the "Law of neutrality tecnologia in the computer science hirings of licenses and services". This law establishes a series of criteria and exposes free software officially as high-priority option in the decision making, besides to present that copying if he is legal using free software.
Published Sep 27, 2005 - 03:46 AMRead more... Comment
The end of the world is near. At last that of the Unix world. That’s the prediction of Donald Feinberg, vice-president of Gartner. “Linux is coming, Unix is dead.” But there’s no need to panic. Not just yet. The end is not going to come overnight or even in next week or year, but it is certain, or as he puts it, “an absolute”.
Published Sep 26, 2005 - 10:00 AMRead more... Comment
Under Debian networking is pretty comparable to other distributions of Linux, especially in areas such as DNS setup. However if you're new to the distribution you might not know where things are set. This brief introduction to networking will show you how it works.
Published Sep 26, 2005 - 07:00 AMRead more... Comment
The Mozilla Quality weblog has announced the availability of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 release candidate builds. Thunderbird 1.0.7 is a minor update that will fix a few bugs, including a return receipt regression introduced in version 1.0.2 and the Linux command line URL parsing security flaw.
Published Sep 26, 2005 - 07:00 AMRead more... Comment
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This is part two of three on live Linux distributions that I've been testing out. The second live CD distro I tested was PCLinuxOS Preview .91. This distro is referred to as being "Desktop Ready Software."
Last month, Chinese Red Flag Software, Japanese Miracle Linux, and South Korean HaanSoft jointly released the GNU/Linux-based operating system Asianux 2.0. The three companies will package and sell Asianux 2.0 under their individual brand names.
