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This tutorial shows how you can install eyeOS on a standard Linux system. EyeOS is a kind of operating system which works online, i.e. it manages files on the server and enables the user to upload, download and edit files.

If you can't beat em...Tom Hanrahan has left the Linux Foundation, where he was director of engineering, to work for Microsoft instead.

You let us know--in no uncertain terms--which apps should have been on our list of the most important open-source apps of all time.

I decided to connect the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) drive today, and I've spent quite a bit of time using it for work. Now this isn't the highest-spec machine (only 256 MB of ram, 1 GHz processor), but it's doing pretty well. Even IE under Wine performed swimmingly (as good as or better than on my Xubuntu setup). Same for the GIMP. I had a GIMP crash in Windows today, but the GIMP is generally rock-solid on both platforms -- and certainly was in 6.06 today.

The Linux leader is still skeptical about GPL 3, but open-source Solaris could be a draw.

MUSCLE is a project to coordinate the development of smart cards and applications under Linux. The purpose is to develop a set of compliant drivers, API's, and a resource manager for various smart cards and readers for the GNU environment. Source code is now distributed by this site that supports the Schlumbeger Reflex 60 line of reader and all ISO-7816-4 compliant smart cards. I would like to see a Linux resource manager for smart cards and other cryptographic tokens such as Ibuttons or SecureI d. A good standpoint for this is the PC/SC specifications written for Microsoft OS. I try not to conform to Microsoft but it is VERY important that security tokens work in conjunction with other OS's. If you would like to contribute efforts to MUSCLE please contact me here

Jerome Glisse announced today that a small team of X.Org developers has managed to provide the initial support for ATI R500-based cards (ATI Radeon X1300 up to X1600 at the time) by reverse engineering. The released code is definitely not yet ready for the normal users, but it's the big step ahead nevertheless. Especially having in mind how ATI (now owned by AMD) has not provided specifications of their hardware to the open source community.

Save time and headaches, and create a more easily maintainable set of pages, with the Ruby on Rails ActiveScaffold plugin. ActiveScaffold handles all your CRUD (create, read, update, delete) user interface needs, leaving you more time to focus on more challenging (and interesting!) problems.

With this tip you will be able to work from home using VPN and that too from Linux / FreeBSD system for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point vpn server.

Pardon me while I interject a little bit of governance into your day. We are due for our first round of Fedora Board elections. There have been some threads recently on fedora-advisory-board that have been working to clarify what the Board's role should be as it goes into its next term.

Red Hat Training News June 2007

In this article you'll learn how surprisingly easy it is to leverage Ajax as a natural improvement on JSF's event-driven architecture and how to do so without compromising the JSF component model. Explore the rest of the Seamless JSF series.

OpenOffice.org released its first native packages for Mac OS X this week. These "development snapshots" aren't intended for end users, but are still an important milestone in porting the productivity suite to the Mac.

The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include a free Ubuntu Live Conference pass, free LQ merchandise, the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Linus on the GPLv3, why multiple competing standards are a bad idea, a Patent lie, mobile software is dead (or, the flexibility of Linux) and Xandros signs up with Microsoft.

nPulse announces Catapulta Distribution at ISS World 2007

What does it take to start writing programs for Linux ? Most people will guess a text editor, knowledge of a programming language and the compiler and libraries of that language would suffice. But ask a professional programmer who has been writing code for Linux and he will differ with you and insist that while the three things stated above can very well help kick start ones programs, other things also come into play in writing efficient programs such as a debugger, memory profiler tools and above all a good understanding of the inner working of Linux kernel and its processes.

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum yesterday released its first specifications in an effort to encourage people to develop more applications for Linux-based mobile phones.

'Complex systems' pushIBM is buying Sweden's Telelogic for $747m, further boosting the Rational business it bought five years ago.

The United Nations (UN) has called for policies to protect African nations from unregulated imports of electronic waste. The UN's Environment Programme estimates that over 50 million metric tons of electronic e-waste are produced globally, much of which finds its way to the African continent as charitable donations.

[Isn't 'electronic e-waste' a bit redundant redundant? The image it offers is one of me setting out my deleted files bin for the garbageman to come and haul off to Africa. - dcparris]

Not just another Java framework

Book review: We might as well get this over and done at the outset. Yes, JBoss Seam is another Java framework. I know, you thought there couldn't possibly be any room for another one, but you're wrong.