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Q: What do you get when you put 10,000+ IT people in a racetrack with free beer? A: The most fun you can have at 100mph.

Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, speaks at great lengths about preserving the ideological purity of free software, and in his vision of the future, computer software development is modeled after mathematics and science research, where all research and development is open.

Ahead of celebrating global Software Freedom Day on Saturday, several of the country's open source user interest groups have been busy jointly hosting a number of related events this week. The string of events kicked off with a student focus yesterday--the first of two such events was held at the NTU (Nanyang Technological University) campus, with another slated for Friday at the NUS (National University of Singapore).

This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show how to set up VirtualBox 2.0.0 from the precompiled binaries.

Our biggest hurdle has been the fear of change. People operate within their comfort zones and it takes a lot to get them dislodged. That above most everything else, is what we've fought the whole time. The frustrating thing is that we know many of them will free themselves...but they just don't know they have a choice. So I made a phone call.

The "Trasnoche de Traducción Aymará" started at 6 pm, Bolivia time (+/- EST), of Friday, September 12. Much fun was had as the evening went on by about a dozen volunteers, mostly from the Linux community who were quite interested in the Sugar interface and the XOs but, alas, mostly were not Aymara savvy. However, our 3 "Aymaristas" got agreement on 58 strings, so we have just about 2.500 to go. The first string translated was "Name:", as when a kid names the XO. That will be "Suti:" for us...

Fonality, which specializes in open source phone systems, is answering the U.S. Gulf Coast’s call for help following Hurricane Ike. Here's the scoop.

I thought the list of Technology partners was interesting, as who they are, there some surprises there, for me, at least. - tracyanne

If you develop applications using FOSS tools, Workbench is an ideal distro for you. In addition to packing a gamut of development tools, the distro also bundles everyday apps and eye candy, so you can use it on your desktop as well. Workbench is based on Xubuntu, the Xfce-powered Ubuntu flavor, but unlike Xubuntu it doesn't fit on a standard 700MB CD. With all its development tools and productivity apps, Workbench weighs in at 1.4GB. You can download the distro from either a low-speed direct download server or BitTorrent.

Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them.

[ Not FOSS related at all. But we should stay up to date with 'innovative' firms, don't we? - hkwint ]

Again inspired by Phil Howard's [1.], whose penchant for seeing simple text files as the solution, I have found, indeed, it would have provided the quicker, less error prone approach for updating the News page on the defunct OpenSourceToday site. Moreover, not only would have it been, it is simpler; it also had the additional advantage of the ability to discard older, rotted stories before they become an obvious embarrassment. That is what I will show here, the more direct method to update these pages relying more heavily upon text files, while reducing the risk due to excessive processing.

Crafting Application Public Interface (API) and especially managing API among different releases is difficult. In this article, learn how to take advantage of Eclipse's Plug-in Development Environment API Tools to make this process easier and seamlessly integrated into your daily development.

We'll, this week's been completely out-of-sequence. Today's post was slated for the day before yesterday and Tuesday's number pool script that was supposed to come out yesterday ended up getting published on Tuesday. If there's one thing we've learned this week, it's that my day job is starting to interfere with my hobbies ;)

Untangle has announced its new, open source Re-Router Technology, which is available for download now. If you're familiar with Untangle's previous open source gateway software for Linux, this is the same technology for Windows. It lets Windows desktops perform network gateway services such as blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and inappropriate websites for a whole network.

Romain Gaucher, a specialist in web security, offers his Scalp tool in version 0.4. The log analyzer searches for attacks on Apache web applications.

The issue of Polish institutions and public administration in general, being dependent on closed-source software providers, the main one being Microsoft, is largely spoken about. There are exceptions among the institutions however, and one of them will be featured in our today’s article. We hope that it will be a pilot of a series of articles describing FLOSS deployments in Poland

InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more

After years of development, Google's first Android-powered phone is finally here -- well, almost. T-Mobile is expected to unveil the HTC Dream at a closed media event Sept. 23, with the device rumored to hit store shelves by mid-October. The question, then, is whether the Dream -- and the Android concept on the whole -- can actually deliver.

For an entertaining example of how Linux can power home appliances, check out the Tangent Quattro Internet radio. This device combines Internet and broadcast radio with a media server client on an embedded Linux platform to give you a variety of audio playback options. The Quattro has a solid feel. A single speaker at the top of the unit produces rich sound. The front panel has volume and tuning knobs and a dozen buttons for station presets and other functions. At the center of the front panel is a two-line LCD display that shows the station you're listening to, menu choices, and status messages.

I've taken to calling my Power Macintosh G4/466 the Debian Mac. I continue to be amazed at how well Debian Etch runs on this thing with 466 MHz of PowerPC CPU and a smallish 128 MB of RAM. (I'll take this opportunity to repeat that on this box, Etch runs many a ring around Fedora 9's PowerPC port). The best thing I could do for the usability of this box is to up the RAM.