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Unlike Android, Google Chrome OS is open source. Whereas Android is coded behind closed doors – one big-name developer says it's no more open than Apple's iOS – Google's imminent browser-based operating system is built – in large part – where everyone can see it. A portion of the project remains closed – Google's boot-time-boosting firmware work – but like the browser it's based on, Chrome OS is a platform that can serve Google's ad-centric purposes even if its code is set completely free.

MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.

Nautilus Easy Union is a Nautilus extension that allows you to create a "union point" which is basically a folder that displays the contents of other (multiple) directories. You can use it for easily accessing all your pictures, music, videos or other files from a single location.

This short, informal opinion column is about the GNU LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community. LilyPond is an open-source music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. This free software brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This document can be a used as a rough guide to installation of CIITIX-VOIP on a persistent media. It also describes the basic usage. CIITIX-VoIP is a carrier grade VoIP server distribution, leveraging upon the great efforts of the open source community. CIITIX-VoIP is based on rock solid Debian Lenny. This distribution comes as a turn-key solution to any company (small, medium to large scale) wishing to deploy a SIP-based presence service à la Skype. Laced with accounting, NAT and DB backend based features, setting up a SIP based setup is a breeze, achievable within 7 minutes.

Download from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2581021 file kernel-6.37-0.1.rc1.git0.xendom0.fc15.src.rpm been built by Michael Young and install it. In mean time following patches :- patch-2.6.37-rc1.bz2, patch-2.6.37-rc1-git5.bz2 should be downloaded from http://kernel.org and copied to /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES folder Update /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec correspondently

A webcam is a video capture device that is either connected to a computer directly (typically by USB) or over a computer network. Many modern netbooks and laptops have a built-in webcam.

After installing Ubuntu 10.10, I had a strange feeling I was seeing something that was already old. Yes, Ubuntu is a fantastic desktop system, and yes it’s better than Windows. But today, in 2010, that’s almost a given. And that’s not enough. The IT world is changing, and PCs themselves as a whole are getting old. The mass is moving towards tablets, mobiles machines, and netbooks. Ubuntu, the way it is today, might be the best choice in a dinosaur world. I can’t read Mark Shuttleworth’s mind, but I can only guess this is exactly what he felt when he decided to switch to Unity (for the UI) and Wayland (for the graphics architecture). Let me explain what all of this means. Read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.

In Eric Raymond's "The Art of Unix Programming", within the section called "The Basics of Unix Philosophy" there is a rule quoted by Rob Pike: "Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming" At face value Rob's rule number 5 makes sense. But what is Rob actually saying? In complex software systems it might be difficult to track down and identify how the rule of evolving functions to deal with data worked. So why not use a small microscopic example instead. Taking a small program, a passive network scanner, from data structures to operations on the data structures illustrates Rob's rule number 5 perfectly. This is an interesting experience from my perspective as most of the programs and scripts I have written deal with transitionary data. What I mean by transitionary is simply find it, operate on it and/or print it then move on. Not an unusual trait in system administration centric programs. While working on a passive scanner that could also verify a port I witnessed rule number 5 occur right before by fingertips.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 14 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

In the previous article we looked at what’s the use LVS, to have a system of load balancing built into the Linux kernel. As mentioned, however, LVS was born to be good in one thing: the load balance, but does not provide additional options, such as monitoring the progress of the machines on which we are balancing service and in case of trouble in one machine remove it from the active machines. To accomplish this goal and many more wel” take a look at ldirectord

Fanboys had better sit down before continuing, as I have some bad news for you unless your particular tech obsession of choice is CrackBerry or Windows flavoured. Neither Apple iOS nor Android will beat BlackBerry or Microsoft as a mobile business platform any time soon according to the latest market research.

Google Chrome extensions are a good way to get more features and functionality to your browser. This is a nice collection of extensions for google chrome.

"Wouldn't it be nice to just start an application at the navigation stage? Well you can. As well as: graphically feed text to Espeak or Festival, graphically display a command's output like a directory listing or a file's contents, graphically start a web browser at a specific website like a Google search with your input, and so much more! This is basic BASH and Zenity, so don't worry, it's easy!"

I've been chatting with someone who's having a problem loading Ubuntu/Mint on a Toshiba notebook. Has anyone had a similar experience?

Roku has begun licensing its A/V media streaming set-top-box hardware and software platform to third-party device makers. The low-cost Roku player’s hardware is built on top of an ARM system-on-chip and its software has a linux 2.6 kernel at its core.

Even though a bit late, Mozilla is making steady progress with the mobile phone version of its popular web browser, Firefox. The latest Firefox 4 beta for mobile brings in a lot of speed enhancements and it is much lighter as well.

The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the November 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Phoronix has published the results of benchmarks performed on 26 Linux kernels dating back five years, from Linux 2.6.12 to a pre-release version of the upcoming Linux 2.6.37. Despite the addition of numerous features over the years, the results show remarkable consistency.

We have detailed the steps for installing Google Earth in Ubuntu already. One of the issues that popped up recently is the frequent crashing of Google Earth when you try to launch the app after installation in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid. There is an easy fix for this.