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Once a year I write a column the week before the big HPC show. This year SC10 (a.k.a. the show) will be in New Orleans. I assume very few people will actually read this installment because they are either in the Big Easy, on their way, or running around frantically trying to get ready for their week on Bourbon Street. I fall into the last category. I have have been preparing my Limulus Machine, writing a white paper, helping a few clients, and smashing my thumb with a step ladder.

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector inkscape_logoGraphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

Firebird 2.5 package is already in Debian and Ubuntu but with latest patches for Hppa and Alpha cpus in the Firebird 2.5 main tree Firebird supports all the Main Debian Architectures

While you can start using digiKam without tweaking its settings, you might want to spend a few minutes modifying the application’s default configuration to make it work your way.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 14 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use.

"Philosophical issues notwithstanding, Red Hat is not in the same situation as Apache," Sharples commented. "Red Hat (and JBoss before it) is a Java licensee and the Java SE implementation we ship is based on OpendJDK and covered by the OpenJDK Community License Agreement"

This is a mini episode from East Bay Mini Maker Faire. I take a look at a couple of exhibits from this years rainy event in Oakland, CA. I talk to a few guys who went all out to build the ultimate gaming chair. Then I learn how to decorate eggs the geeky way.

The Apache Software Foundation is usually a nice, quiet organization that supports the development of quite a lot of open source software. Unlike the Free Software Foundation, it doesn't usually get political or controversial. But the ASF is calling Oracle out over its handling of the Java Community Process (JCP).

Literally several hours ago on the getsatisfaction.com appeared the commentary from the Adobe’s employee Care Burgess, that gave hope that the situation with CS on Linux could change.

Public speaking and giving presentations are stressful enough for most folks — why add to that with complex software and worries about platform compatibility? If you know a bit about HTML and how to work a browser, S5 is a standards-based slide show system that can take the hassle out of creating presentations.

I've gotten rid of a great deal of hardware over the past year and then some. I don't have any desktop systems left in my computer herd. We've just set up our home office in the home-office space we built more than 7 years ago (another topic, another time, another blog), and I elected to bring my Compaq Armada 7700dmt — circa 1999 — back here for the time being.

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 - 19th, 2010.

When it comes to Linux command, it is always a love and hate affair. Newbies tend to shun away from the command line as much as possible while the intermediate to expert users who are used to it will swear by it, and boost how much faster and more productive they have become due to the command line. Regardless which camp you belong, as long as you are using Linux (doesn’t matter which distro), you are sure to hit the terminal and type some commands into it at some point of time. Why not embrace it and take the opportunity to learn something new?

You would think that the 'Android kernel' is full of holes reading the headlines over the week, following the publication of the Coverity scan report. However, you cannot help but wonder how many of the headline writers actually read the report. It seems that all is not as it seems.

Earlier this year we reported that the Lightworks video editor was going open-source. This was big news as Lightworks is a professional-grade non-linear video editing application that has received scientific and technical Academy Awards and Emmy Awards. This software has been used for editing films like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shutter Island. While many have been excited that this application is going open-source, the Linux port will not be available until late 2011.

Being a long time Red Hat and Fedora user it is hard for me to write Fedora reviews because I am biased. I decided to take a look at a few of the reviews for Fedora 14 and found something that disturbed me... mainly with the Linux Action Show video review. That lead me to examine a couple other reviews and put together a review of the reviews.

Red Hat today announced the first beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 -- on the eve of a major Red Hat event in San Francisco, where we could be hearing about the release of RHEL 6. But first we've got RHEL 5.6 (beta) today, providing some updated apps.

In light of continuing financial troubles, exiting developers and managers, and an uncertain future of desktop development, a group of former employees and developers with community supporters came together to fork Mandriva in order to preserve and further the beloved system. Things have been quiet since the initial announcement of Mageia until recently. Some details of their plan and a roadmap have now emerged.

Android 2.3, codenamed Gingerbread, is expected to materialize this month. Little is known about Gingerbread's features, however, because Google develops the operating system behind closed doors and doesn't publish a roadmap. This has fueled a lot of speculation among Android enthusiasts. Google has hinted that 2.3 could bring a user interface refresh that will reduce the need for handset makers to broadly deviate from the standard user experience. Various leaks have suggested that the platform is being overhauled to boost its suitability for tablet devices. Google's new WebM multimedia format, which uses the VP8 codec, will likely be supported out of the box. It's also possible that Gingerbread will include some of the music library streaming and synchronization features that the search giant demonstrated this year at the Google I/O conference.