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The KnowARC1 project brings Globus2 packages to Debian Linux, paving the way for many Grid projects to be included in the popular distribution.

Makers of instant-on Linux environments say Google's Linux-based Chrome operating system won't interfere with growth in their markets and may help accelerate interest in quick-boot Linux platforms.

As Devin Coldewey pointed out on a recent CrunchGear post, many people seems to be getting over-exited about the new Google ChromeOS. I think that many bloggers are making more of ChromeOS than what it actually is. Maybe it is time to sum up what Google's new OS is and what it is not!

Ace coder Akkana Peck didn't want to keep a tab open in a browser all day every day just to keep an eye on Twitter, and none of the available Linux clients had what she was looking for. Either they required installing something like Mono or Adobe Air, or they had nasty bugs. And then she found out about Python-Twitter and how to write her own. (Beginners can do this too!)

Argh, there have been about a zillion articles and blog posting declaring the future of computing and a coming "OS War" between Microsoft and Google. Paaalease. Although I myself am writing yet another piece of content related to Google Chrome OS, I feel compelled to do so because the vast majority of everything I've seen so far is simply rubbish... and I don't often call things rubbish.

Imagine the following scenario: You’re Microsoft — the world’s largest, most profitable software company. Several thousand of your partners are about to meet you in New Orleans for a massive conference. Everyone is wondering if you can (A) retain your established software franchises while (B) pushing deeper into cloud and software as a service (SaaS). Then, an unexpected hurricane blows into town. It’s called Google Chrome OS. Now what?

Mozilla Labs has set up the Open Web Tools Directory, a bid to build a comprehensive list of the open-source developer tools available. On Monday, the open source browser project issued a call to the programmer community to help with the construction of the new central database.

A long time has passed since I have left KDE and GNOM world. I am living with icewm and desktop independent tools. But my memory was continuously knocking me about konsole; a multi tab, transparent terminal emulator for X Window. It is really great but as usually being a member of KDE family, it is bloated. Linux is great because it never lets it users unhappy. My happiness has come back with mrxvt.

Open up GMPlayer (or another MPlayer GUI) right-click on it, go to Preferences, click on the Font tab and from the Encoding list chose Slavic/Central European Languages (ISO-8859-2) for Romanian subtitles. Use Modern Greek (ISO-8859-7) for Greek subtitles. Be sure to also pick a font that contains the specific diacritic character sets (Verdana and Arial can be found in the msttfcorefonts package in most Linux distributions and proved to be almost perfect for this task). Even better, be sure you installed the mplayer-fonts package and leave the font field empty for the application to chose it’s own system font.

This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on an Ubuntu 9.04 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 3.0 from the precompiled binaries.

The Chrome OS story is truly frightening, far more terrifying than Mono gaining a solid foothold in Linux distributions--- because the news is simply an announcement that the Chrome OS project has been officially launched. There is no OS yet. What levels of hysteria are going to be reached when the actual code is released? Rioting? Suicides? Looting?

TV-Browser – Online Digital TV Guide in Ubuntu. TV-Browser is a simple Digital TV Guide that supports more than 500 TV channels and 80 Radio stations. TV-Browser collects TV program information from different sources on the internet and presents it neatly as a Digital TV Guide with pictures where there possible (if there are no copyright issues).TV-Browser is a free opensource software licensed under GPL that can run on multiple platforms like Windows, Linux, MacOS & OS/2 as it is Java based and requires only the SUN Java runtime environment to work properly.

Google has revealed at least some of the hardware manufacturers it's working with to design and build devices that run the much-discussed Google Chrome Operating System. With a post to the official Chrome blog Wednesday afternoon, the Mountain View Chocolate Factory said its hardware partners include Acer, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides one place to gather notes and information, powerful search capabilities to find what you're looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks to help manage information overload and work with others more effectively.

I have an old embedded system that uses an SBC-MAX board from Computer Dynamics. The unit was part of a vehicle monitoring system that used Windows 98 (one of many fundamental flaws in the design). It has a K6/2 333MHz CPU and 128MB of EDO DRAM. It features a whole bunch of integrated devices and a fairly broken BIOS. As an embedded system it has a PC/104 bus for which I have a few modules including a GPS. I'm would like to get that working but getting Ubuntu to even install on it has been a pain.

Several months ago I created an article with 5 APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) tips for both Debian and Ubuntu available here. APT is the package manager in Debian and Debian-based distributions, like Ubuntu. Here's part two of that article, with 5 more tips and tricks for APT.

With Google announcing Chrome OS and Microsoft launching Bing and other cloud initiatives, it seems as though the two companies are reversing roles and attempting to poach on one another's traditional territory.

Google will eventually take over the world. Oh, sure, we delude ourselves into believing otherwise, but deep down inside we know that one day, gLife will come out of beta.

Gerry Carr, platform marketing manager at Ubuntu, downplayed the news, telling InternetNews.com that, at this point, all Google has delivered is a blog post stating its intent -- and as a result, it's too early to speculate on how the competitive landscape will shape up. "I think we would rather focus on a new entrant bringing a bunch of energy to the open source space and validating the choice of Linux for developing new operating systems that will replace legacy Windows," Carr said. "But by whom and how that Linux choice will be delivered is predicting the future with little data -- not something that is smart to do."

"Mono is clearly more popular than Java. I've been using desktop Linux as my primary desktop for three to four years, and use just a handful of Java apps day to day," O’Grady said.