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You don't learn to ride a bike by reading books. No one can become a pilot by listening to someone else talk about plane journeys they've been on. Instead, we learn by doing, by trying, by failing and - most importantly - by succeeding. Because when you feel like you're winning, you get confidence in your skills and know that you can do anything.

The design of the Sugar Labs logo was an opportunity to create a coherent visual identity for both the revolutionary educational software and also the organization behind it - a growing community of volunteers from diverse backgrounds and professional disciplines. A simple, typographic approach was used for the logo to set it apart from the primarily iconographic Sugar. The conceptual link to the user interface is color, applied to the letterforms through an outline and an interior color - the same technique used to represent identity in the interface for icons of children and activities.

Maker Faire's got started in the US, the first being held on April 22 – 23, 2006 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Created by Make: magazine these events celebrate D.I.Y. technology with all kinds of weird and wonderful creations ranging from toys to artworks and gadgets. This year Newcastle hosted the first UK Maker Faire.

Recently, a new browser war has erupted all over the internet, with various browsers making massive improvements in each release to trumpet those made by others. While Firefox certainly ignited this new browser war, Chrome is the one who started the JavaScript war. The first release of Google's web browser came with a brand new JavaScript engine that was a lot faster than those of its competitors, forcing them to improve their JavaScript performance as well. This whole JS thing has gotten to the heads of the folks at Google, and they've created a site for experiments which show off the power of JS.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is denying that a list posted on Wikileaks.org is the same list it maintains of sites believed to be hosting harmful content such as child porn and malware. The official blacklist is a closely guarded secret.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

There are many criticisms that one can make of the applications offered by the free software community, but lack of choice is generally not one of them. Our community thrives on competition while our licensing makes it hard to keep secrets from competitors. A recent episode in the Puppet community shows that, while this competition can sometimes take unwelcome forms, there is often little to do but to welcome it anyway.

So it has been a while since I have posted ScreenShots of any distribution lately. So I decided to start it off with the new and improved Debian 5.0. Now I have not used Debian in quite a long time ( Not counting Ubuntu based distro's ). But the last time I installed Debian, it had just a menu base install. Well guess what????? Not any more!!! Debian has joined the world of Linux Gui Installers ( Also has the option for the menu based installation as well, for those of you who need it :) ).. I am personally glad to see that they have joined everyone else.

GNU/Linux is blessed with a good choice of file managers. Gnome has Nautilus, KDE has Dolphin and Konqueror and Krusader, which I wrote about some time ago). If you are looking for a minimalist system with low processor and memory overheads to revive an old “underpowered” machine or make the latest PC look even faster, you have to start thinking about alternatives. One of them is Thunar, the default browser of XFCE. read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.

Linux will never rule the desktop, and here's why: If you draw a line giving the rate at which Linux is taking over the desktop you'll see it'll take several years from now to become the biggest operating system on desktops. This is never going to happen, because the desktop as it is will die long before we reach this point. The good thing is Microsoft will probably die with it!

The GeSpeak Team has released GeSpeak 0.3.

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for July to December 2008. This document includes reports of the board and the Marketing and System Administration working groups, details of the KDE e.V. activities of the last two quarters of 2008, financial information, and future plans. All long-term KDE contributors are welcome to join the KDE e.V.

New Mexico LinuxFest! New Mexico's premier free open source software conference and expo. Coming November 2009

X Input 2, a major rework to the X.Org input extension, is a step closer to reality. Originally it was hoped that X Input 2 would be ready for X Server 1.6, but that didn't end up happening and also resulted in Multi-Pointer X being disabled in this latest X Server release. This morning, however, Peter Hutterer (of MPX fame) has his first working X Input 2 implementation.

Arch Linux, a Simple yet powerful Linux distribution, read some of the basics of this wonderful distro, from the source article "Arch Linux is a bleeding edge Linux Distribution, that is mainly focused on simplicity, according to them "...without unnecessary additions, modifications, or complications..""

Sun's complex software licenses are reportedly one area of interest in the due diligence. Both companies are big supporters of Linux -- an open-source software platform, but IBM is concerned if any of Sun's licenses conflict with its own, according to the report. Another reported area of interest is Sun's 2004 agreement with Microsoft Corp., a 10-year deal under which Microsoft paid $700 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit by Sun and another $900 million to resolve patent issues between the two companies.

According to an article on TechNewsWorld, IE8 could be more secure than firefox and chrome, just because there's more speed in the execution of javascript in the new firefox and chrome browsers. While IE is only optimized for popular pages (rendering). I'm sorry but this smells like FUD.

If you're installing a few programs in WINE, you may notice that they tend to influence each other negatively. The fix is to install them in completely different operating system environments, also known as WINE bottles. This way it's easy to completely remove applications by just deleting their "bottle". Let me show you how to make this effortless with standard WINE and a simple shell script.

The Internet Archive organization plans next week to announce the opening of a new data center to house two petabytes of information for its Wayback Machine, the digital time capsule that stores archived versions of Web pages dating back to 1996. For example, this is what Computerworld's Web site looked like in 1997, what Google looked like in 1998 and what CNN looked like in 2000. The Wayback Machine houses 85 billion Web pages archived for more than a dozen years, which amounts to three petabytes of data, or about 150 times the content of the Library of Congress. Only five years ago, the Wayback Machine contained about 30 billion Web pages. It is expected to continue to grow by 100TB of data per month now that it's live.

KDE is about the community, rather than the product. It is not all about the code: there are many other ways in which people can be part of KDE, and a very simple way is to connect with other people. In an effort to bridge the gap between users and developers, the KDE Community Forums have launched a new initiative to coordinate feature requests. A new "Brainstorm" section has been created in the KDE Community Forums: users are encouraged to post requests there.