TODAY'S  MOST  POPULAR  HEADLINES

No Love, but Plenty of Like, for the G1

5 Ways To Beat The IT Budget Blues

S3 Graphics Is Working On New Linux Driver

Using external commands in Nagios

11/21/2008  
System monitoring tool Nagios offers a powerful mechanism for receiving events and commands from external applications. External commands are usually sent from event handlers or from the Nagios Web interface. You will find external commands most useful when writing event handlers for your system, or when writing an external application that interacts with Nagios.
Search further

Planning Extensions in TYPO3

11/21/2008  
In this article by Dmitry Dulepov, we will discuss why planning an extension is important and how to plan an extension. Planning issues related to web development are covered in depth in many specialized books. Here, we will cover planning only with regard to TYPO3 extensions.
Search further

By the People: Citizen Involvement the Open Source Way

11/21/2008  
Everything's going open source nowadays. Why not government? That's precisely the question that some analysts and consultants are asking, along with citizens themselves. President-Elect Barack Obama has begun to implement a bit of open source thinking with his Presidential Transition Project Web site.
Search further

Treat your C code like scripts with C Cod

11/18/2008  
C Cod is a front end to your C, C++, or Objective-C compiler that lets you treat C more like a scripting language. C Cod comes with C Server Pages, which provides support for CGI so you can write Web applications in C or C++ and have them automatically compiled on demand.
Search further

Pigs Taking Flight? Office Web For Mac and Linux?

11/18/2008  
When Microsoft announced it was planning to offer lightweight, web-based versions of some of its Office components, there was some speculation that maybe it could be used with alternate browsers. It seemed Firefox would be a likely candidate beyond IE, and some ventured to wonder about Safari.
Search further

Amazon to sell OLPC's XO laptop starting Nov. 17

11/12/2008  
One Laptop Per Child confirmed that it will start selling its XO laptop on Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site on Monday. The XO laptop will be sold on Amazon through the same arrangement as the G1G1 program, in which a consumer donates $400 for two laptops, one of which is delivered to a child in a developing nation. Only Linux-based XO laptops will be available through Amazon, said Jim Gettys, vice president of software engineering at OLPC. A Windows version will not be sold.
Search further

Access remote network services with SSH tools

11/12/2008  
You probably rely on the services on your own private network -- wikis, mail servers, Web sites, and other applications you've installed. What happens when you have to leave the friendly confines of your network? With minimum exposure and few simple tools, you can get all of the comforts of home anywhere you can find an Internet connection.
Search further

Former AROS Developers Start New OS Project, Much Secrecy

11/11/2008  
We all know AROS, the Free software re-implentation of the Amiga operating system. While AROS is mostly feature complete, it's not yet ready for prime time, and it of course lacks in applications. The whole vibe around AROS is one of, excuse my wording, flipping the finger to the legal bickering and tangled web of intrigue surrounding Amiga. No schedule and rocking, is AROS' motto. While that might still be the case, a few AROS developers have defected from the motherland, and have started an operating system project of their own, called Anubis.
Search further

Songbird plus Mozilla, the ultimate media mashup for your music

11/11/2008  
GNU/Linux has come a long way since XXMS, the Winamp wannabe. The number of free media players has bloomed: Amarok, Banshee, Rhythmbox, Kaffeine, Kplayer and JuK. They have enough features to cater for every need a dedicated music lover could wish for. So Songbird, which is not even at version 1.0, would have its work cut out to rival those media players especially the ability to play video as well as music. But Songbird has one unique feature. It has a built-in browser, Mozilla, which allows it to extract maximum mileage from your music collection. Web integration leverages your music and allows you to do some really great stuff. This article will look at the features of Songbird that make it an essential addition to any installation. Read the complete article atFreesoftware Magazine.
Search further

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 277, 3 November 2008

11/10/2008  
It was the Ubuntu week, with much of the Linux-related coverage on many web sites dominated by the brand new"Intrepid Ibex", the project's latest. A plethora of reviews followed almost instantly, but some subtle hardware issues and lack of real breakthrough features have left some of the users and reviewers unimpressed. In other news, Fedora has unveiled Plymouth, a new flicker-free boot process, Sabayon has hinted at a large number of never-seen-before features for the upcoming 4.0 release, Yellow Dog Linux has launched a beta testing period for its forthcoming version 6.1, and NetBSD is about to branch version 5.0 with some unexpected improvements. Also in this week's issue - Ubuntu has published a draft release schedule for"Jaunty Jackalope" or Ubuntu 9.04. Finally, we are pleased to announce that the recipient of the October 2008 DistroWatch.com donation is GoblinX, a slick Slackware-based live CD made in Brazil.
Search further

Showing 10 articles of total 22144 in database ( English).

[1]  2  3  4