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Please Welcome Digistan
05/16/2008 
With the OOXML debacle behind us, one might ask,"Now what?" Clearly, something (or somethings) need to be done in order to be sure that the process th ... 
Linux and the tax office: never the twain shall meet
05/16/2008
Australian citizens who use GNU/Linux in their businesses should be asking exactly that question of their tax authority. (However, I doubt that anyone ...
Installing mod_geoip for Lighttpd On Debian Etch
05/16/2008
This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with lighttpd on a Debian Etch system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allo ...
Querying a database using open source voice control software
05/16/2008
Though the tools for voice control and dictation in the open source world lag far behind those in the commercial arena, I decided to see how far I cou ...
Essential commands for Linux network administration
05/16/2008
In this article, Mark Rais shares a list of those essential networking commands every beginning Linux administrator needs to know. ...
Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
05/16/2008
According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit s ...
Removing the Big Kernel Lock
05/16/2008
"As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptible BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a ...
Nouveau Companion 39
05/16/2008
In the 39th edition of the Nouveau Companion, this open-source NVIDIA driver development crew talks about their latest driver achievements over the pa ...
OLPC: one virile Windows laptop per child
05/16/2008
The news that Windows XP will be made available on the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop is now official. When the project began, a move such as this w ...
Give Me 3 Synths, Part 2
05/16/2008
In this second installment I'll profile Minicomputer, a subtractive synthesizer with some familiar aspects, unique characteristics, and terrific sound ...
Fixing Debian OpenSSL
05/16/2008
Debian, the popular Linux distribution, has just been shown to have made an all-time stupid security goof-up. They managed to change OpenSSL in their ...
Announcing SugarLabs
05/16/2008
Sugar Labs Foundation is being established to further extend Sugar, the highly acclaimed open source 'learn learning' software platform that was orig ...
Discussing free software syncronicity
05/16/2008
There's been a flurry of discussion around the idea of syncronicity in free software projects. I'd like to write up a more comprehensive view, but I'm ...
Adobe releases Adobe Flash Player 10 beta for Linux
05/16/2008
Adobe Systems is reaching out for Linux desktop users with its announcement today that the first beta of Adobe Flash Player 10, a.k.a. Astro, is now a ...
Intel's PowerTOP Ported To OpenSolaris
05/16/2008
PowerTOP is an incredibly handy open-source utility of Intel's that had first premiered a year ago. As of this week, however, PowerTOP has been ported ...
Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
05/16/2008
Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microso ...
10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions
05/16/2008
Plugins and extensions they're what made Photoshop such a bonanza from the late 1980s onward, and they gave it the market push to triumph over competi ...
Tutorial: Become A System Rescue Guru With Linux, Part 1
05/16/2008
One of Carla Schroder's favorite Linux features is its endless adaptability as a cross-platform rescue tool, and her favorite rescue Linux of all is t ...
LTSP 5 - Making Thin Clients Phat
05/16/2008
Last year, I wrote about our school district's implementation of LTSP. In the article, I pointed out the significant limitations a thin client environ ...
I've finally got my home Debian Lenny installation where I want it
05/16/2008
It's been a year and a half since I started using Linux (or GNU/Linux, if you prefer) for much of my day-to-day computing, but the past week or so mar ...
Building a glossier front end for MythTV
05/16/2008
Josh Stewart loves MythTV -- so much so that he is building his own front-end app for it as a drop-in replacement for MythTV's default. The replacemen ...
Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks
05/16/2008
Back in January of 2007 we had looked at Linux Virtualization Performance as we had compared a running native OS (at that time, Fedora Core 6) against ...
Linux wins big in financial trading
05/16/2008
Red Hat announced that announced that a European branch of the the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has implemented its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ...
Ubuntu's Pipe Dream : True Free Software Syncronicity
05/16/2008
Shuttleworth wants the major distros to release at the same time with the same open source base. Is he nuts or is he onto something? ...
Commercial installer adds Windows game emulator
05/16/2008
Linspire has announced that its"one-click" software installation service for Linux desktops now supports Transgaming's Cedega 6.0 emulator. Released a ...
First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
05/16/2008
The first public release of Moonlight the Silverlight on Linux project from open-source leader Miguel de Icaza and his band of coders is out. De Ic ...
Tools circulate that crack Debian, Ubuntu keys
05/16/2008
A recently disclosed vulnerability in widely used Linux distributions can be exploited by attackers to guess cryptographic keys, possibly leading to t ...
Dreamy Dreamlinux
05/16/2008
Dreamlinux is a Debian-based distribution that offers you a choice of GNOME or Xfce window managers as well as an extremely simple installation and sc ...
Open Source Alfresco Takes Aim at Proprietary ECM
05/16/2008
Latest enterprise release brings open source content management lines into wider competition."We are building the product to customer requirements, pa ...
The Long Term (Ubuntu) Solution
05/16/2008
Ubuntu 8.04 has some nice short-term benefits, but the real upside involves Canonical's long-term support.Here's why, according to Works With U, a new ...
Verizon Wireless picks Linux as its mobile OS of choice
05/16/2008
Verizon Wireless today declared Linux as its mobile operating system of choice and said it would introduce Linux-based phones developed through the Li ...
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