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Microsoftâs Creative Destruction
02/04/2010 
An insiders view of the slow motion disaster that is Microsoft. Heart-warming stuff and proof that all bureaucracies private or public fail eventually ... 
FreeBSD -"The unknown giant"
02/04/2010
FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple's OS X, and has powered some of the more successful ...
How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 11.2
02/04/2010
This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 11.2. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_f ...
Linus Torvalds named one of the 100 most influential inventors
02/04/2010
The book"The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time", part of a series from the Encyclopaedia Britannica titled"The Britannica Guide to the World' ...
Intel Clarkdale Linux Graphics Performance
02/04/2010
Last week we delivered our first Linux benchmarks of Intel's Core i3 Clarkdale processor with a variety of computational tests through the Phoronix Te ...
Ubuntu advances: Why Ubuntu server installations will surge in 2010
02/04/2010
This insider tip comes from Ryan Troy, co-author of Ubuntu Unleashed from Sams. Troy started with Ubuntu in October 2004, and started up the Ubuntu Fo ...
The Latest, Greatest, Scariest, and the Future of Information
02/04/2010
I know how we'll know whether the iPad is a success or not. That's right. Somebody will port a version of Ubuntu to run on the iPad. For now, let's ca ...
Debian Lenny goes to 5.0.4, and so do I
02/04/2010
When Debian issues a point release, as it just did with the current Stable distribution Lenny going from 5.0.3 to 5.0.4, it's no big deal. They happen ...
Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 Is Out, Time For Lyngen
02/04/2010
Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 (codenamed "Lenvik") was released on Tuesday. Since then we have been quite pleased with the adoption of this new quarterly up ...
Eben Moglen Live in NYC on Friday: Freedom in the Cloud
02/04/2010
If you're fortunate enough to live near New York City, you can catch Eben Moglen at the NY Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-NY) on Friday, talkin ...
HTML vs. Flash: Can a turf war be avoided?
02/04/2010
After years of HTML standardization disarray, browser makers Apple, Opera, Mozilla, and most recently Google now are hammering out new directions for ...
Unigine Engine Gets Into Physical Destruction
02/04/2010
While the Linux community is still waiting on the native Linux release of the OpenGL3-using Unigine Heaven tech demo with its heavenly graphics (it's ...
Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy
02/04/2010
The venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will introduce an ...
Intel Clarkdale Linux Graphics Performance
02/04/2010
Last week we delivered our first Linux benchmarks of Intel's Core i3 Clarkdale processor with a variety of computational tests through the Phoronix Te ...
LinuxCon opens for registration, paper submission
02/04/2010
The Linux Foundation announced a call for papers and open registration for its second annual LinuxCon conference, scheduled for August 10-12 in Boston ...
Two Nifty Features in digiKam 1.1.0
02/04/2010
Hot on the heels of digiKam 1.0, Gilles Caulier announced the 1.1.0 release of the popular open source photo management application. While the main fo ...
A data cruncher bites the dust
02/04/2010
I won't touch OOo Base with a poke anymore. It looks very nice, but it doesn't handle real world workloads. I have to try Kexi and Knoda. I sincerely ...
Two thousand open source applications for the public sector
02/04/2010
The European Union's Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR.eu) as of today is offering public administrations access to more than two thousand ...
Is Google forking the Linux kernel?
02/04/2010
Disclaimer: This post reflects my personal opinion and is in no way related to the company I work for. LWN tells us what is happening with the android ...
Apple iPad and OLPC XO-3 Vaporware Product Line
02/04/2010
So, the XO-2 has moved from promise to hope to scrap, and has made way for a tablet-style, iPhoneiPad-like XO-3 (Read about the 3.0 model at Forbes an ...
Firefox for Mobile Has Been Officially Released
02/04/2010
The mobile version of Firefox web browser has been finally released. But don't get too excited because as of the moment, it is only available for Noki ...
Oracle Cloud Office: Where Does OpenOffice Fit In?
02/04/2010
As Oracle digests Sun and OpenOffice, chatter has started about Oracle Cloud Office -- a forthcoming offering that may compete with Google Apps, Micro ...
Android and the Linux kernel community
02/04/2010
As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I'm starting to get a lot of questions about what happe ...
Latest gThumb Dev Build (2.11.x) Adds PicasaWeb Support
02/04/2010
F-Spot is an almost complete photo management application but has a problem (according to many people): it uses MONO. An advantage over similar tools ...
Android netbook runs on new ARM9 CPU
02/04/2010
China-based HiVision is readying an Android-based"PWS700CA" netbook with a 600MHz Rockchip ARM9 processor and a 7-inch, WVGA touchscreen, and accordin ...
Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better?
02/04/2010
Fedora or Ubuntu? That is a question that Linux users are asking with increasing frequency. The question is not random -- the two distributions have c ...
Microsoft plays down Windows Mobile
02/04/2010
Microsoft is being coy about when it will release version 7 of its Windows Mobile operating system as it focuses on other areas. It isn't the first ti ...
NVIDIA Publishes 195.xx Linux Driver Beta
02/04/2010
NVIDIA has been at work on the 195.xx driver series for some months already and has delivered beta releases to the public that offer VDPAU improvement ...
The New Face of Open Source: Facebook
02/04/2010
Facebook's release of HipHop as open source underlines the fact that along with Google, Facebook has become one of the most powerful demonstrations th ...
Ten more essential Python tips
02/04/2010
Today, Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the open source space. Itâs a vast language and there are many gems to discover ...
iScanner : Detect and remove malicious code from your webpages
02/04/2010
Isecur1ty team have announced the first version of iScanner 0.1. iScanner is a free, open source, tool that lets you detect and remove malicious codes ...
Setting Up A PXE Install Server On Ubuntu 9.10
02/04/2010
This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). A PXE install server ...
Google Chrome OS Tablet Demo Video Like a Bolt From The Blue
02/04/2010
With the Apple iPad buzz going around, there can't be a better time to demonstrate the'tablet' implications of Google Chrome OS. With the market leade ...
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