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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I am using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

Simplify. That, at its heart, is the purpose of XBRL -- extensible business reporting language. XBRL employs a common set of tags for financial terms, making reports more searchable and transparent to everyone who uses them. Designed to provide information to investors and anyone else researching financial markets, it is an open standard that is operating system agnostic.

A little while ago, while talking in the #drupal mailing list, I showed my latest creation to one of the core developers there. His reaction was “Wow, I am always surprised what people use Drupal for”. His surprise is somehow justified: I did create a site for a bunch of strippers in Perth. Yes, I would classify the link quite work-safe. After talking about it for a while, I decided that it would be a good idea to write a short case study about how I created the site. So, here we go. Read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) LAMP Server Setup. In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

The lightweight Dillo Web browser, in development for eight years, has always been a contender for the fastest browser available on GNU/Linux -- so much so that the Google's Chrome will have to be pretty nimble to outpace it. With last month's release of version 2.0, Dillo is faster than ever. If performance is your main priority, you might find Dillo's minimalistic tools and functional limitations an acceptable tradeoff -- but probably not.

It finally happened: Ubuntu 8.10 (aka Intrepid Ibex) has uprooted Kubuntu 8.04 from the Black Tower. Although I've been a staunch KDE advocate for many years, this exceptional new distribution has unexpectedly converted me into a GNOME user.

A number of different ways to determine if memory is the issue when your Linux box hits a brick wall. Today we’re going to take a look at a few (well, maybe more than a few) ways to check your Linux box to find out if the reason it’s beginning to perform poorly is related to memory or memory-management issues. For today’s examples, in particular, we’ll be using SUSE Linux 9.x, but most of these examples translate just as easily to RedHat, Ubuntu and other widely-used distro’s, with some minor modifications.

A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators.

Take a free online training course for Suse 11.x with illustrations, movies, and quizzes. This course is designed for new Linux users to help them learn how to use Linux.

This is one of several things you can do to increase the usefulness of an expensive and slow Internet link.

We've made the point before that as good as Google's Chrome browser is, many users will still want to stick with Firefox because of how incredibly useful Firefox extensions are. In fact, at this point, I see the new beta version 3.1 of Firefox as the most useful browser available. I'm still using Chrome, though, and expect big things going forward from it, including a mobile version from Google. For now, though, as developers work on variants of and extensions for Chrome, it's worth being careful.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from November 17th to November 19th.

At first glance, the PC market is pretty darn mature. But walk into a Target retail store in New York or visit a computer retailer in Melbourne, Australia and you’ll see the start of a new revolution — driven by Asustek Computer (a.k.a. Asus). This is more than an Eee PC Netbook story folks. Asus is driving real industry change. Here's the proof.

Curved Infinity Games, through the MirthKit game platform, is proud to present the first ever commercial game to be released with full source code included with every purchase. Finity Flight: Fight Back, the expansion to Curved Infinity Games’ August release, Finity Flight, is the first direct hybridization of commercialism and open source philosophy. When a customer buys Fight Back for $11.99, they automatically download all of the game’s source and assets.

Linux Magazine is broadcasting a live stream from ApacheCon US 2008, LA, New Orleans (November 5 through 7). The keynotes and lunch presentations from the developer conference are available free of charge.

There is an interesting story regarding open source hardware making the rounds today. Have you ever heard of TV-B-Gone? I hadn't, until today. It's an invention from Mitch Altman that works like a universal remote, except that it has only one purpose: turning off any TV that is on anywhere, especially in public places. Admittedly, this device could easily get its owner killed during the fourth quarter of a football game in any number of watering holes, but there is a notable open source twist to the story.

Universities and K-12 school districts in 29 US States and 10 countries around the world flock to "Free the Penguins" initiative to maximize desktop budget during tough economic times.

Literally expanded, it stands for Long Term Support. Yeah right, but what does it actually mean. Does it mean I’ll keep getting updates till eternity or what? The explanation is quite simple really.

Eucalyptus is an open-source (under a FreeBSD-style license) infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly. Now RightScale, a leader in cloud computing management and support, has announced a partnership with the Eucalyptus team at U.C. Santa Barbara to foster cloud computing research, experimentation and adoption.

If you accidentally mangle your boot record and render your system unbootable, don't reinstall your operating system. Paul Ferrill shows how to rescue a non-booting computer with the Super Grub Disk, a sophisticated yet easy-to-use Free software application.