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This is a short tutorial showing how to install the Macromedia Flash player on a Linux system using Wine. It was tested on Ubuntu Dapper Drake beta 2 (on x86 - 32 bit machine).

FREE is a magic word. It transforms even the most sensible, sedate and rational of people into greedy lunatics. So just imagine the chaos now there is a portable gaming console that has free titles.

In the world of education, technology plays an ever-increasing role in student management and other administrative tasks. Teachers all over the world are using an open source GPL-licensed course management system called LON-CAPA, and the result are "revitalizing," "unique," and "creative," according to some of its users.

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 140:
We talk to Maria Winslow, author of The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source
Linc becomes a KDE convert?
Our review of Suse 10.1
Package management woes
Recap of desktop recording tools in linux
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Open source software methodologies, principles, and practices translate well into other arenas, like standards and intelligence, and have been proposed for the beverage and medical industries as well. But open source philosophy exists in religion too; a kind of collaborative spirituality in which there is no such thing as secrets known only to an inner circle, and participants work together to create a mutually acceptable and beneficial creed instead of passively receiving instruction from a priestly class.

WALTHAM, Mass. – (NASDAQ:NOVL) Novell has said that the company has developed a new process that solves Linux® device driver compatibility issues. The new driver process allows customers to obtain drivers independently of Novell® kernel updates and supplies a straightforward approach third parties can use when developing device drivers for Novell's SUSE® Linux Enterprise products. The new Linux driver process developed by Novell allows hardware and software vendors to provide Linux drivers and driver updates for their products to customers directly and transparently, in a way that is completely integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise delivery and support.

An Israeli company's anti-spam effort that deployed unorthodox methods to respond to spammers ended today. Blue Security claimed it was raising the white flag because too many non-combatants were being hurt in its Denial of Service battles with spammers. Others suggest that the venture capital funds dried up. In any event, the Blue Security website is down again. Just in case, Email Battles performed the post-mortem, and captured the company's final words for posterity.

Boingo Wireless becomes the latest firm to use open source to bypass licensing complexity for partners: When you hear open source, you think about software that has broad interest for either horizontal (think Firefox for everyone) or large niche (think Gimp for photo editing) communities. Many well-known open-source projects involve hundreds of regular developers, some who are employees of firms like HP and IBM, and thousands of occasional projects. Boingo Wireless’s release of the Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit has little to do with projects like Firefox or Gimp, although the principles of implicit broad use licensing without advance separate permission and sharing of revisions in the codebase are what makes Boingo’s new effort open source. The software will be available at Sourceforge by the end of May.

Open-source stacks are poised to shake up the world of government security certifications, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 and the National Information Assurance Partnership’s Common Criteria ratings.

The battle is no longer being fought at the file level. It's being fought at the network level.

Heard of ODF? Sure you have. Since the Open Document Format got ISO approval, earlier this month, it’s been getting a lot of incomplete and inaccurate media attention. It’s about time someone set the record straight.

LXer Feature: 17-May-06

New users of GNU/Linux must be handled with patience. Most come from years of a consistent user experience that trains them to consider computers to be magic boxes. They typically have strange beliefs, such as restarting the computer as a magic pill to cure the imbalance of software humours, which must be gently removed and replaced with logic.

[Contributing Editor, Terry Vessels, guides the experienced hacker through the sometimes patience-testing task of assisting GNU/Linux newbies. - dcparris]

InQub Ltd offers personal remote KDE desktops on Kubuntu using NoMachine's NX technology for bandwidth savings and connection encryption for a small monthly charge. Each account is comes with 1 GB of home directory storage and is customisable by the respective user. This service represents an interesting approach of working with KDE without installation and maintenance issues, especially for GNU/Linux newbies and users travelling a lot. Users can get a week's free trial of the service.

Imagine you cannot speak, or move your hands. Now imagine your only means of communication is through a proprietary voice synthesiser that only speaks in European languages, cannot be localised and costs a fortune. Researchers at the CSIR are currently developing open source technology and a web-based portal that aims to empower and enhance the lives of over four-million people with disabilities in South Africa.

It's hard to imagine that Sony, a company that continues to actively block unlicensed applications on the PSP, will welcome the homebrew community with open arms when it ushers in the PlayStation 3. But, according SCE network system development manager Izumi Kawanishi, the console will ship with a built-in Linux OS, complete with compilers and other tools.

[Not to sound cynical or anything, but just be on the lookout for rootkits... - dcparris]

MIT's "$100-dollar laptop" has created a huge buzz, but does it make sense for the developing world? Linux International executive director, Jon "Maddog" Hall, offered an alternative for South Africans at LinuxWorld Johannesburg on Tuesday.

San Francisco-based StumbleUpon, which has four employees, makes a recommendation engine. When its users don’t want to trust places like a search engine, Google News, or Boing Boing to surprise them with fun and interesting sites, they ask the free service to throw something new their way. Then the company incorporates feedback to better deduce appropriate fits for each user.

At JavaOne, CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Senior VP Rich Green say they will look to the community to determine how best to open-source Java.

[Now I can breath a little easier. Just make sure it's an FSF-approved license so they can start focusing on other important projects. - dcparris]

A live CD Linux distribution can offer a full-fledged computing environment on a CD or DVD, but if you have access to a Windows-based machine, a removable storage device with Windows portable applications might be a better option. Luckily, using a Windows machine doesn't mean you can't use open source software. Many of the most popular portable applications are, in fact, open source: applications like OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, Firefox, and Gaim. Let's take a look at some of the lesser-known and most useful portable applications you can put on your USB flash drive or mobile hard disk.

Statistics Canada has responded to concerned free software users by adding GNU/Linux support to the online census. While other free operating systems remain unsupported and issues about security and policy remain, this response is an important first step in ensuring open access to Canadian government online services.