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Ten Tec is an American manufacturer of all sorts of radio equipment based in Tennessee. They make a neat little black box which attaches to any PC via a serial port. The box, called the RX-320D, is a shortwave (general coverage) receiver that works very well indeed with performance rivaling more expensive desktop receivers. If you read Ten Tec’s advertising you’d think you need Windows based software to use this radio. Think again.

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The news has quickly gotten around that Dell will be bringing Ubuntu Linux to some of its consumer desktops. Analysts and Linux rivals alike think this is a good move for both Linux and Dell. The big question now is, "How important is it really?"

Linux users have a multitude of choices for personal finance applications, including GnuCash, KMyMoney, Kapital, and others, not to mention being able to run Quicken under WINE. One good alternative that runs on multiple operating systems and manages finances with ease is Moneydance.

File Server Configuration in Debian Using Samba

There are many factors which affect Website availability and performance from end user perspective, namely ISP Internet connection, server location, server parameters, programming language, application architecture and implementation. One of the critical parameters is a selected Operational System (OS). Most users often need to select between Linux and Windows, two popular choices for web servers.

DNS server Setup using bind in Ubuntu

Earlier this year, we asked our readers why people thinking of Linux aren't also thinking of OpenSolaris (or vice versa), now that both are pukka OSS operating systems.

The Ubuntu Feisty Training Course has more than 150 pages of online content as well as 7 movies.

Open source technology now has a firm foothold in the public sector, according to a new survey.

Security-conscious BSD operating system issues a new release with extended hardware support and more than a handful of updates since last release.

Let’s face it. AMD is having quite a bit of financial problems in its race against Intel to grab more market share.

Stephan makes his living by cramming himself into a 4-wheeled rocket and aiming it down the straights at over 200 miles per hour. And you know some of us are wanting to know... Are you out of your mind?

One of the most hotly debated topics on the Internet today is, without a doubt, BitTorrent: the most popular peer-to-peer network protocol today.

So Dell is finally caving into public pressure and selling a Linux powered PC, but will it be Microsoft that is hit hardest or Linux distributions that are not called Ubuntu?

With software, there’s room for competition, and the barriers to entry are rather small in a lot of cases. If a developer has a radical idea on how to improve a certain process and solve a problem that’s not met by other software titles, he can spend some time developing a solution, release it to the public, and if it’s good, acceptance will soon follow.

Nearly everyday, I have people e-mailing me with questions regarding my choice of the distributions that I highlight. Many of them feel that Ubuntu is too simplistic and that I should consider something like Gentoo. Others, however, ask me why I’m not more supportive of more entry level distributions like PCLinuxOS and Freespire.

Firm foothold established

Open source technology now has a firm foothold in the public sector, according to a new survey.

This tutorial shows how to install the free VMware Server on an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

The One Laptop Per Child computer will now cost US$175 instead of the planned US$100 and will have the capability to run Windows as well as Linux. This does not mean, however, that OLPC is dumping Linux, say local developers.