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Whether you just want to balance your checkbook or you need to track the finances of a large global corporation, you can find open source software to do the job. For our list of open source financial tools, we cast a wide net and included applications related to enterprise resource management, point-of-sale and even employee time tracking. Not to mention traditional accounting and financial management tools.

RMS's utopian advice runs counter to commercial logic and fails to advance the cause of software freedom.

July 16th, 2010 marks the next release in the "stable" line of Wine releases. New stable releases of Wine are so important that my two favorite commerical Wine products, Bordeaux and Crossover, have both jumped right in Wine 1.2's new stably goodness with soon to be release product updates.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2010.1 Spring desktop (with the GNOME desktop environment) 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.

The procedure driven by virt-install (libvirt 0.8.2) has been managed via keyboard due to mouse pointer stayed frozen at center of VNC window all the time of installation and finally at Gnome Desktop came up at the end.Get access to text mode console and edit /etc/inittab to switch to initdefault 3

How do you eat an elephant? In small bytes. That old saying applies to Canonical’s emerging Ubuntu cloud strategy. Instead of pursuing the entire cloud hosting industry, Canonical is quietly seeking 10 hosting partners to pilot Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Here are the details.

Last Friday the Wine Project shipped Wine 1.2. This was the work of 328 people in over 23,000 separate patches over a span of two years.

The Linux and open source community provides countless user and server applications. They also provide solutions to help support these and other applications, even to support non-technical departments. You'll find many help desk or customer service trouble ticketing systems in the FOSS (free and open source software) world. Right now we'll review 5 different solutions.

At OSCON, Canonical’s Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) could get a boost from IBM's DB2 database team. It sounds like the Ubuntu-IBM effort will focus on cloud opportunities. Here are details from WorksWithU, the independent guide to Ubuntu.

When it comes to trouble-shooting an application printing things to the screen, or to a file, is not as full-featured as attaching a debugger to a running device, but there is a time and place for printing a simple message to the screen.

This article covers some of the Android SDK tools for dealing with tricky situations. To develop Android applications, you will need the latest Android SDK which requires a Java Development Kit (JDK). I used Android 2.2 and JDK 1.6.0_17 (see Resources for links to these tools). It is not required that you have a physical device; all of the code in this article will run fine on the Android emulator that comes with the SDK. You should be familiar with Android programming as this article will not cover basic Android development, but you can probably follow along if you have knowledge of the Java programming language.

Microsoft has cracked open .NET a little further and surrendered some control over its development platform to the open-source community. Latest code for company's take on Python and Ruby – fine-tuned for .NET, IronPython, and IronRuby – has been quietly released under the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) license.

Earlier this month an Intel employee began asking about making optimizations to Mesa's shader compiler (on the Mesa-dev list). This Intel employee was not one of their usual Open-Source Technology Center developers commonly working on their Linux graphics stack as part of Keith Packard's team, but instead it was an uncommon name: Benjamin Segovia. Ben is from Intel's Advanced Graphics Lab team where previously he worked on ray-tracing techniques, but as of late seems to be at least dedicating some of his Intel effort towards optimizing Mesa.

There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. There are a bunch more that I failed to mention. It makes you wonder do we really need another one? How much different can they be? I am not sure but the newest one appears to be rather significant.

At first glance, Canonical will spend most of this week promoting Ubuntu at OSCON, the open source convention. But take a closer look and you’ll discover Canonical and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Edition surfacing at HostingCon in Austin, Texas. Here’s why.

Do you have problems keeping time synchronized on your network? Do your systems tend to drift? You can resolve the time drift problem by using the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to keep all your system’s time in sync with each other. What’s that? You’ve tried using NTP to find that some of your systems still set themselves apart from the pack. You can go one step further and create your own NTP server for your network.

You asked for it so here it is: a post with 7 of the best Ubuntu terminal (fixed width or monospace) fonts. I say 'Ubuntu' because the installation instruction for most of these fonts are for Ubuntu.

We have seen many ports of different kinds to all of our Windows Mobile devices, but what about porting a different OS to Android? XDA member and legend mamaich has brought us two emulators for Android devices, which will allow Android users to boot Windows 95.

[The obvious question is WHY? - jhansonxi]

In this post, I compare the facilities to retouch photos in both digiKam and Aperture. Since for both packages there are plenty of options to retouch your pictures, I decided to split the post up into two different posts. In this post, I address where to find the tools and some the quick and easy retouches and how the editing works in general. In my next post, I will discuss the more advanced options, compare the tools available in either application has and say a bit on how they behave. As usual, I start with Aperture and then compare to how digiKam works.

he London Stock Exchange, which is currently in the process of moving its trading platforms to Linux, has lost its chief technology officer, Robin Paine. Anyone trying to contact Paine via email receives the following message, “Robin Paine no longer works for the London Stock Exchange”.