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Ubuntu, it's been a nice ride, and I fully support what your doing in terms of spreading the full-custom gospel sounds of the free desktop (apologies to the Rev. Horton Heat). I'm OK with the desktop innovation — the "social from the start" initiative, the Ubuntu One integration. It's just not for me. It's mostly not for my hardware, but I'll extend that to me, the user.

This howto describes how to build a standalone BIKA LIMS solution on top of Ubuntu server. Once you have downloaded and installed the basic Ubuntu the whole process of cutting and pasting takes about 15 minutes.

Canonical became the first Associate Member of the Open Inventions Network, a patent organization founded by IBM, Sony, NEC, Novell, Philips and Red Hat to enable royalty-free use of patents to influence collaboration within the Linux community. The weird thing is that in both the press release and website, the actual requirements and commitments of an Associate Member are nowhere to be found.

It's not just Apple that is out to kill off Adobe's Flash. Apple has been fairly vocal over the past month in its opposition to Adobe's Flash player. The company, or at least Steve Jobs, has unequivocally said that it will not be supporting Flash on its iPhone and iPad devices. Not now and not ever.

LinuxTag 2010 is the host of a Debian miniconf; that, in turn, was where relatively new Debian leader Stefano Zacchiroli delivered a relatively high-energy "state of Debian" talk. According to Stefano, Debian is doing great, but can do better yet; he has some ideas for how to make the project better.

CrossOver for Solaris is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of todays most popular office application and games.

N8 will be the last Nokia N-series phone running Symbian operating system. Nokia's Symbian operating system has been dealt a further blow with the cellphone maker announcing it will be dropping it in favour of the Linux MeeGo operating system for its high-end smartphones.

For several years now, Sprint has been in next-to-last place among U.S. wireless network providers. But that might eventually change if Sprint continues to offer smartphones like the HTC EVO 4G ($200 with a new contract), a well-reviewed Android 2.1 handset boasting several firsts and currently a Sprint exclusive in the U.S.

Already reviewed GoogleCL on LinuxNOV on this post for how to use GoogleCL without using Graphical User Interface, but in this post will show simple script for GoogleCL also you... readmore

I found a useful sound effect in an online video from NASA which replaces an earlier temporary sound I used in a scene soundtrack for the Lunatics pilot, “No Children in Space.” I’m going to extract the sound from the video (with VLC), cut out the sound I need, clean it up, and insert it into an existing sound mix (all with Audacity). This should give you some insight into using Audacity and a VLC on a real project. Read the full howto at Free Software Magazine.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has a cautionary message for VMware partners and customers. Indeed, Whitehurst claims VMware over the next few years will suffer the same fate as Sun Microsystems. Here’s what Whitehurst had to say.

NetUP have released a new version of IPTV Complex, an interactive TV software bundle. It introduces new graphic interface featuring a number of improvements both in design and on technical level.

Nokia announced that Symbian would no longer be used to power the company's popular N series of smartphones. The replacement? MeeGo, the jointly developed, Linux-based OS developed by Intel and Nokia.

Bijk is a web service offering a whole bunch of server monitoring capabilities with a simple setup and at no cost. It supports most of the popular flavours of Linux used on servers. And it creates neat-looking graphs from the data…

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 was just released featuring faster search, quick filter toolbar, better migration assistant and many other improvements.

MeeGo, the open source operating system shepherded by Intel and Nokia, announced the first annual MeeGo Conference. Slated for November 15-17, the conference takes place in Dublin Ireland with more details set to come. As of now, registration and paper submissions have yet to be announced and sponsors haven't even been nailed down.

Linux is regularly accused of being too fragmented but Microsoft has its own minefield to navigate. One of the regular criticisms levelled against Linux is that with so many versions available the platform is "fragmented". The idea is that because there are so many "distributions" of Linux, users will be confused and unsure of which to pick.

A little over a month ago we released the Linux port of Osmos, promising statistics on our sales and downloads. We wanted to find out - from a financial perspective, for our studio - “is it worth porting games to Linux?” The short, simple answer… is “yes.” Did we get rich off it? No. But the time we invested was repaid, with room for margin of error, and possibly with a little extra at the end. Allow me to break it down..

nVidia released the new 256.35 display drivers as stable, just 2 days after the release candidate.

With many Linux distributions receiving major updates in recent weeks and months we have carried out a five-way Linux distribution comparison of openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, and Arch Linux. We have quite a number of tests comparing the 32-bit performance of these popular Linux distributions on older PC hardware.