Misc

So does this mean that Xandros is no more then? Hardly. Rather they are simply reexamining where they want the future of their company to be headed.

On Oct. 18, Linux distributor Xandros was reorganized, resulting in the loss of at least five jobs and a change in chief financial officers. The company, which positions its [...]

It’s here! It’s freaking about time, man! Flash 9 Beta is now live and here for you to try if you are feeling man enough…
I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but a publicly available beta of Flash 9 for Linux is now available. Kudos to the Adobe Linux Flash team for [...]

Personally, I think it is simply easier to simply install Kubuntu in the first place. Still, this is a good how-to for converting an existing Ubuntu install should the need arise.
In the Introduction to this book, I mentioned that there are several distributed versions of Ubuntu. These include Edubuntu and Kubuntu, both of which [...]

While I can see how share of Red Hat could certainly drop should the situation call for it, I still don’t get how Oracle could be of any real threat.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Shares of Red Hat Inc., the largest distributor of the
Linux operating system, tumbled more than 7 percent Friday after a Wall Street analyst [...]

I agree with the use of OGG, but FLAC? Eh, it’s a little much for a portable player if you ask me.
I had the idea for an iPod liberation event several months ago. The idea is something similar to a GNU/Linux install-fest but for Digital Audio Players with RockBox and iPodLinux. Installers gain the ability [...]

For once, I am really impressed with Novells corporate actions. Ripping on SCOs lifeline ought to help shut them up for a little while, anyway.

It just needs a good push, we swear. Yes, OpenSparc receives a hardy push from the likes of Sun.

I suppose we might see this in other traditions as well, but for the time being, it looks like Christians have an Ubuntu distro of their very own

I tend to agree with the virtualization argument. There will come a time when the OS that you are using will make next to no difference whatsoever.

I have been seeing a lot of this lately. People once put off by Linux coming back for a seccond look. Take this as one such example…

OK, so perhaps the whole scandal with Mozilla was nothing to be concerned about whatsoever. We need to just calm down some.

Oh dear, it appears that our favorite gave us a bit of a scare. Never fear though, all is well in the land of Red Hat.

Sweet deal, using Linux and an old NES robot, you can bring all of those Star Trek dreams to life!

Now this is interesting. There has been some speculation that Google has been looking into Sun’s OpenSolaris OS. Not sure where this would be going, but it could prove pretty wild.

Hmm, I suppose my first comment would be to say that I was not even aware that there was such a thing as iPod games.

Definitely some very cool stuff here. Today, you will have an opportunity to learn about a book that will show you how to hack Gmail into a file system for use on your *Nix box.

Most of us are fairly familair with Mono I suspect. But just how hip are you to how well it’s supported on other platforms?

While this piece below is more less about Free Software and not so much about open source software, it does offer some interesting insights behind the nature of how FS can benefit specific causes.

Linux on ice? Hmm, this sounds like some kind of drink, perhaps? Nah, actually this is more of point to be made about delays versus something never happening at all. In short, expect to see Linux in Norway sooner than you’ve been hearing publicly.

Well what about a darned Shockwave player for cripes sakes! Seriously, I get that we have to wait for a Flash player that perhaps will sync better with the most common Linux sound systems, but what about Shockwave?