Showing all newswire headlines

If you yearn for the operating systems or arcade games of the past, and are willing to make the effort to bring them back to life, free and open source software is definitely the way to go. Green screens and might-have beens, operating systems and games, BeOS, Amiga OS or DOS can be relived and replayed through a host of emulators, simulators or rewrites in varying stages of completion.

If you're thinking of investing or just investigating new technologies in 2010, take a look at this list of 10 that should get your blood a-pumping.

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) has issued a call for proposals for its annual conference. Scheduled for July 19-23, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OSCON 2010 is looking for sessions and tutorials covering everything from open source developments in smartphones to virtualization to open source in education.

Speed Dreams is an open source, multi platform (works on Windows and Linux) motorsport simulator. It was forked in late 2008 from the famous open racing car simulator TORCS, in order to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents, to make a more enjoyable game for the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism.

Want to know what's in store for the next few months or years in technology? Here's your chance to see the forecast.

In this series of articles, we've gone over making custom transitioning slide-show backgrounds in different desktop environments. So far, we've gone over GNOME, KDE3, and XFCE. This time, we'll do the same task in KDE4. I think that it is easiest to do this KDE4 compared to all of the other desktop environments.

If you are looking for descent photo editing software for Linux, you should try the latest digiKam release.

There's no doubting that Firefox is a heavyweight among Open Source applications, or that innovation has been its strong suit. What has been doubted, however, is when it will finally light up the mobile world.

The VLC team has been working (or actually, they call it "support" so they might not do this entirely on themselves) on a new project for quite some time, called VideoLAN Movie Creator, a free video editing software offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with the aim to stays simple and user-friendly.

While the company is making inroads against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Whitehurst still sees Red Hat's biggest growth coming from the UNIX-to-Linux migration customers. "I'll certainly say we are seeing more progress against Windows than we were a year ago," Whitehurst said. "I think as people get more comfortable with the product and we get a chance to demonstrate that broader value proposition, certainly it's an increasing mix of Windows [customer wins], but still that would be in the minority of business."

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

Although the mainstream media has tried to make it a big deal, a closer look at the recent court ruling ordering Microsoft to stop selling Word, shows it's really not going to have very much impact.

PC maker Dell has announced the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook that runs on the new Intel Atom CPU.

Yesterday a very small company won a very big victory against a very large software vendor.

There is a huge number of audio players for GNOME which thrive to offer as many features as possible, with Banshee, Exaile or Rhythmbox currently being the most popular for this matter. Since features like easy access to lyrics, Wikipedia information or collection management are a must-have for a complex audio player, it looks like Listen makes no exception regarding those either.

The US-wide sales ban of Microsoft Word spoken by a Texan court in August has been upheld.

In this article by Ian Wild, we will be looking at taking our current resources and converting them over to Moodle. I'm going to concentrate on the kinds of resources we math teachers usually have. They usually come in two flavors. The first are the "static" resources: PowerPoint presentations, documents provided by publishers (such as resources provided on a CD-ROM at the back of a textbook or downloadable from the publisher's website). In this article, we'll focus on these static resources. Again, those are the resources math teachers and lecturers usually like to convert to Moodle. The other type of resources are "interactive" resources.

SHOUTcast is server software for streaming media developed by Nullsoft. It allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, see how to use shoutcast server to create your own online radio

The popular Linux Desktop Environment KDE is now upgraded to version 4.4.0 beta 2. This second beta version brings a number of bugfixes and improvements. The Plasma Desktop has been further polished.

SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin loves stretch goals. A case in point: Augustin hopes to double SugarCRM’s revenues in 2010. To get there Augustin will need help from numerous Software as a Service (SaaS) partners. Here’s the open source CRM company’s strategy.