2005 May

When you’re a GNU/Linux or *BSD user, tech support can be a real hassle. Not technical support for your software — there are newsgroups, mailing lists, and message forums for that — but support for hardware and services that officially require Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. If your hard drive dies or your Internet [...]

If you want to set up a Linux-based firewall, there’s no need to run a bloated distribution that installs everything but the kitchen sink. If you are not afraid to get your hands dirty, and like having total control over your system, then Sentry Firewall CD (SFCD) is just what you need. It is a [...]

Skype for Linux enables you to make Skype voice calls using your Linux desktop or laptop with an Internet connection.

Developers of the open source Linux operating system are about to lose a crucial software tool that lets them keep track of version changes. The loss could delay Linux development and even make the operating system more vulnerable to security breaches

Nokia officials on Wednesday used the LinuxWorld Summit here to not only launch the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and the Nokia Internet Tablet 2005 software edition, but also to explain why they decided to develop an open source device.

Learning management and Open Source. As this article shows us, there is a real potential for a good match here. Check it out!

Last month, when I tested Linspire 5.0 for my series on Linux desktops for government enterprises, I discovered NVU. At the time, I realized something special had happened to the Linux application inventory. As the NVU Website states:

BitDefender Antivirus for Samba is now a RedHat Ready certified application.

Interact-TV, a digital media management company based in Westminster, Colo., uses a custom Linux operating system built on Fedora Core as the base for its digital television servers. As a result of his experiences with Linux and other open source software on the production floor, CEO Ken Fuhrman has fired his Web host, fired up [...]

Mainsoft launched a free Visual Studio .Net plug-in called Grasshopper and a developer community forum for creating Web applications and Web services that run on Linux, Windows and Java platforms. Formally titled Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition, Grasshopper benefits from two years of collaboration by Mainsoft and the Mono team on Mono’s ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, Visual [...]

amaroK is a soundsystem-independent audio-player for *nix. Its interface uses a powerful “browser” metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection. We have a fast development-cycle and
super happy users. We also provide pensions and other employment benefits.

OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, announced on Monday that it has approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications Version 1.0 as a standard.
OpenDocument (Open Document Format for Office Applications) is the new default XML-based file format for the forthcoming open-source office suite OpenOffice.org 2.0.

Obstacles such as financial constraints, very minimum PC resources, did not in any way deter the grit of Kerala-based, 15-year old Sarath Lakshman from developing SLYNUX- a highly user-friendly GNU/Linux operating system designed for beginners. A completely self-taught person, who has never stepped into a computer-learning institute in his lifetime, his tale is one of [...]

This week we’ll take a look at a very simple command called watch. You know what they say, a watched pot never boils. That’s why it makes good sense to take advantage of this little tool to watch it for you. Waiting for mail? Want to see if a job has completed? Watch can help. [...]

Every user whose client connects to the Internet should configure his firewall immediately after installation. Some Linux distributions include firewall configuration as a part of installation, often offering a set of defaults configurations to choose from. However, to ensure that your machine presents the minimum “attack surface” (a measure of the number of vulnerable ports, [...]

When Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) came out, I was stunned by
Dashboard. Sure, we have Superkaramba, but the effects and
quality of the applets in Dashboard are much higher. Liquid
Weather++ is the best looking, feature rich Superkaramba
theme out there. Apart from that, there just aren’t many
interesting themes for me out there. I don’t want a big [...]

Each year, more OpenOffice.org books hit the market, with nearly a dozen easily available in US bookstores today. They include very technical references, very basic introductions, and books that focus like a laser on just a small portion of the software’s capabilities. The small publishing company Hentzenwerke focuses their books on two areas: the migration from [...]

Netscape has fixed 44 vulnerabilities in the latest version of its browser less than 24 hours after its release.

The operating system world has been blessed by another regular release of OpenBSD. As usual, the developers have made many enhancements, upgraded ported applications to new versions, and added new software technologies and hardware drivers. OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to configure because of its documentation, it’s also totally free-as-in-rights. With an [...]

nbsp;OpenOffice.org lets you process multiple languages within the same document easily, as long as you use only the characters your keyboard offers you. Anything beyond that requires you to Insert > Special Character. This is acceptable, as long as you don’t need to enter too many of these special characters. This article discusses a convenient [...]