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Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.9

I am very please to announce the release of Foresight Linux 0.9.9. What is new in this release? Compiz is now included. Also included GnuCash, GnomeScan, and the synaptics driver.

Sun Announces the Latest in Open Source Tools

NetBeans Community offers Developers Tools Designed to Fuel the Build Out of Next Generation Web Applications and Integrated Support For Building Native Applications

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Morville and Rosenfeld's book is a real eye-opener for anyone who wants to understand the complexities of organizing web information at the enterprise-level. This isn't about how to put together a standards-compliant website (well, it is sort of) or how to develop web applications or graphic design for webpages. True, all of those functions are necessary for web development but the (apparently) growing career of Information Architecture (IA) is an entity all its own.

Linux supports Trolltech's Qtopia Greensuite initiative

Trolltech®, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today announced wide industry support for Qtopia® Greensuite which was announced earlier today.

Mysql moves are troubling

Open source company MySQL AB, which puts out the well-known database of the same name, has made a couple of moves this year, both of which have passed without much comment.

Openlogic Open Source Library Supports Eclipse and JBoss

OpenLogic has upped the number of open source projects pre-certified by its flagship OpenLogic Enterprise widgetry from 160 to a round 200 and new versions of about 100 packages it already supported like Eclipse and JBoss have been added.

[The article wreaks of freeware - stripped down. Is it really 'Open Source', or is this someone's idea of co-opting the terminology to mean 'shared source'? - dcparris]

The Perfect Setup - OpenSuSE 10.2

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Dec 17, 2006 3:16 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: SUSE
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSuSE 10.2 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS), BIND DNS server, ProFTPd server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

Southern Indian State Battles Microsoft

Thiruvananthapuram, India (AHN) - The southern Indian state of Kerala on Sunday launched a "war" against market leader Microsoft Windows. The communist-run state backed the Linux computer operating system because it uses open source code.

KDE Commit-Digest for 17th December 2006

  • KDE Dot News; By Danny Allen (Posted by dcparris on Dec 17, 2006 1:29 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: A new interface element, the 'viewbar', makes its debut; continued work on Flake and Kross-based scripting within KOffice.

GPLv3 Questions & Answers

  • http://umeet.uninet.edu; By UniNet (Posted by UniNet on Dec 17, 2006 12:12 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNU
Umeet 2006, this year's online conference on Free Software, will be holding a GPLv3 Questions & Answers session with Richard Stallman.
The session is this Tuesday, December 19th, at 18:00 UTC on the #umeet channel on irc.uninet.edu.
If you plan on attending Tuesday's session, you will want to read the background information on the GPLv3 that Richard Stallman has made available.

This week at LWN: Second Life and Open Source

When Larry Lessig proclaimed that "code is law" he was talking metaphorically. But for a virtual world, constructed entirely out of bits, it is literally true: the laws regarding what you can and cannot do there, both legally and even physically, are inscribed in the lines of code that implement it. In this space, then, open source has an added significance in that it not only lays bare the engines of creation, but it potentially allows them to be hacked.

352 Linux Distributions on one page

This is a cool page with links to 352 Linux Distributions all on the same page.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Bash

The default shell on most Linux operating systems is called Bash. There are a couple of important hotkeys that you should get familiar with if you plan to spend a lot of time at the command line. These shortcuts will save you a ton of time if you learn them.

Music provider bets big on virtualisation

  • Computerworld New Zealand; By Doug Dineley (Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 17, 2006 5:11 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
These days, lots of companies are stretching their hardware and energy dollars by consolidating print, file, DNS, and web servers on virtualisation platforms such as VMware. But not many companies boast of running their entire production infrastructure on virtual machines. An exception is Arvato Mobile, a division of Bertelsmann that builds mobile solutions for network operators, media companies, and internet portals and delivers digital entertainment content to consumers around the globe.

Unsucking Linux app installation

InSoftware installation on Linux: Today, it sucks (part 1),Ian Murdoch (whose first name is the second half of Debian) writes,Unless an application is included with your Linux distribution of choice, installing that application on Linux is a nightmare compared to Windows., and proceeds to say exactly how.

Using Ajax with Prototype

In the Introduction to Developing Web Applications with Ajax article we discussed the procedure used to create an Ajax application. As a developer, you probably noticed that the client JSP included a lot of JavaScript. Prototype is a JavaScript library for developing dynamic web applications, which aims to replace much of the JavaScript code in Ajax applications with its own Prototype functions. In this article, we’ll develop the same application, but using the Prototype library.

Linux Desktop Architects Meeting

The Desktop Linux Working Group from OSDL had an "architects" meeting last week where they hammered out the top concerns for further Linux desktop migration. Top of the list was trying to make it easier for independent vendors to develop applications that can be easily developed and integrated no matter which desktop environment they are using.

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few months about RPM -- its present state, its future plans, and its leadership team. In particular, the Fedora Project has received numerous requests asking us, "what are you guys doing about RPM?"

Virtualization Spawns Startup Companies

The booming virtualization market has spawned several startups worth a close look.

Hitting the Trifecta: Java database development with Apache Derby, Part 1

This article begins your journey of writing Java applications that work with the Apache Derby database.

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