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Software on wheels is one kind of roadshow where iPOTT tries to expose software offline. This roadshow is going to be held in Tech park of Chennai India on 30th Sept 09. Last show was the big hit and this roadshow will rock.

What Dell showed at a China Mobile event Monday was not a finalized smartphone, the computer maker said -- rather, it was a proof of concept mobile device. Still, reports from the event were enough kick speculation into high gear, and for now, it looks as though Dell could be going down the Android path in developing a mobile handheld.

One of the many ways KDE makes our lives easier is by providing graphical interfaces for many of the tasks that computer users want to perform. Web browsers typically accept certain protocols that connect them to resources, such as http, https, and http://ftp. In KDE, these are called KIO slaves, and nearly all KDE applications can interact with them. What makes KDE unique is that there are over 50 KIO slaves available for use. These include everything from basic file management (file:/directoryname) to remote network management (remote:/). I have selected a few notable KIO slaves to demonstrate how they are used and have also included a list of useful ones at the end of this post.

Reader Alan Rochester told me about xkill, the utility that helps you ... kill things on your Linux desktop. I had gFTP die on me today and gave it a try.

As with any volunteer-based concept worth its salt, it would appear we are not quite in agreement here as to how one laptop per child initiatives should be implemented. Discussing what hardware platform and what operating system we should use sometimes pales in comparison with debates on the inherent ideology of education that should be pursued. The very fact that I, personally, assume that our effort should necessarily be a volunteer, grassroots, community-based movement has very strong opposition from those who are running projects from a top-down, central-government perspective.

In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.

While one would imagine that trying to mass market proprietary software that is intended for an open source platform would be problematic, there are some major advantages.

Open-Xchange, which promotes open source groupware to more than 500 resellers and integration partners worldwide, plans to host its first partner summit on October 8 in Germany. Here's the scoop, the opportunities and the challenges facing Open-Xchange.

In Is Chrome OS Too Orwellian Or Big Brother-ish?, Chris of The Coffee Desk examined the reach of Google into our private spaces, both cyber and real. That really struck me – I knew just what he meant, because last week I had a near-miss experience with yet another in the endless series of assaults on privacy. This one came from a relatively new entity in the Microsoft hegemony, Qwest by Windows Live.

VDrift, TORCS and SuperTuxKart are 3 free, open source car racing games which run on Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

One of the significant disadvantages of being an early adopter of any new technology is what comes after it, specifically, the improvements that every technology experiences over time. Such appears to be the case for those who rushed to pick up the G1 — the first Android phone on the market — as questions have begun to pop up over whether the device is in line to see its last update.

According to the change notes for the current development branch the next release of the GIMP image editor will be licensed under the GPL3 and LGPL3. GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is currently being redeveloped as the unstable development version 2.7, preparing the way for version 2.8 which will be the next stable version expected for release by the end of the year.

While Sun Microsystems puts their weight behind the GNOME desktop environment for Solaris and OpenSolaris, there are developers that do work on providing a quality experience for KDE on OpenSolaris. However, getting KDE to run on a clean OpenSolaris installation can require building KDE from source and taking various other steps. Fortunately, for KDE fans, there is now the Korona distribution, which brings KDE 4.3 as the default desktop environment to an OpenSolaris stack.

Remember Mindcraft back in 1999? Not many people do. It was when Microsoft "proved" Windows NT was faster than GNU/Linux. That backfired, and so has Microsoft's latest paid benchmarking: this time of Internet Explorer 8 vs. Firefox, by NSS Labs. It just goes to show that Microsoft is now officially worried about Firefox in the browser sector.

Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and Microsoft’s Windows 7 are expected to debut within days of one another in October 2009. Some open source pundits will surely hype a showdown between the two operating systems. But Canonical will need to carefully communicate the broader Ubuntu 9.10 story to media, customers and partners. Here are seven potential steps to success for Canonical and the Ubuntu 9.10 launch.

Open-source Java clustering startup Terracotta is today expected to announce an acquisition that'll potentially boost the speed of clustered Java applications. The company said it's buying the IP behind the Apache-licensed Ehcache along with Ehcache founder Greg Luck, who'll be joining the Terracotta team. The goal is to integrate Ehcache with Teracotta.

So Microsoft is going to decide how big a netbook can be to be a netbook then? Anything larger than 10.2" doesn't get Windows 7 Starter Edition, must pay more for another version that will run even slower on a netbook. Could be good news for Linux, as OEM XP licenses expire and Windows 7 becomes the only alternative.

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.2 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.2 adds support for Apple's QuickTime 6.5.2 Player, IrfanView 4.25 the extreamly popular image viewer and editor. This release aslo bundles in Cabextract, Wget and Unzip to remove external dependencies. Our winetricks script has been synced to the latest official release, Steam should now install and run once again, There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

It takes money to make money, and commercial Linux distributor Red Hat knows this. Red Hat has made no secret of the fact that it wants to get more of its sales through indirect channels. This is not just a matter of shifting the burden of sales to resellers, as is the case with most server makers, but is also a means of keeping Red Hat's overall revenues growing so it attains its long-term goal of becoming a $1bn, profitable software company.