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Source: Linux Today Several weeks ago, desktop Linux distributor Linspire Inc. announced that it was going to open up CNR (Click N Run), its Web-based software downloader/manager, to other distributions
Source: Linux Today Four years of litigation have brought the Utah-based software group SCO to its knees--and pundits reckon that its demise is imminent
Source: Linux Today You'd think that things like this would get lost in all the shuffle of being acquired and selling to enterprises and what-not. But no
Source: Linux Today With the Sonnet library for KDE 4, developer Jacob Rideout hopes to reinvigorate the field of desktop linguistics by adding automatic language detection and other innovative features
Source: Linux Today "Still, you have to keep in mind that you're not going to always be right, and own up and take it in the chops like a grownup when you get called out "
Source: Linux Today Now it's impressing hard-bitten security geeks with a plan to lock down the hundreds of millions of educational machines against spyware and computer intruders
Source: Linux Today Cisco Systems Inc. is planning to cease development on its network admission control (NAC) client, the Cisco Trust Agent (CTA), and submit the source code for the software client to the open source community
Source: Linux Today The UK government has added confusion to software patent issue with new appeal refusal
Source: Linux Today Novell Inc. likes to point out that it launched SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 a full nine months before Red Hat Inc. could get its latest Linux release, RHEL5, out the door
Source: Linux Today IBM is to give its business partners access to sales and technical expertise for its open-source, low-end application server products
Source: Linux Today Recent research from open source software and services provider OpenLogic Inc suggests that businesses are taking a more managed approach to their adoption of open source software, with over half using an open source policy
Source: Linux Today Hackers mostly try obvious passwords, exploiting poor security, rather than performing difficult exploits, according to a study which left computers online with weak passwords
Source: Linux Today EMC said Wednesday it plans to sell 10 percent of VMware stock this summer in an initial public offering, but added it has no plans to spin off the virtualization company
Source: Linux Today Red Hat is rolling out a new version of its Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) that improves smart card usability, management and integration on Linux, Mac and Windows platforms
Source: Linux Today Canonical and Linspire have announced a technology partnership that will move Linspire and Freespire to Ubuntu-based, not purely Debian-based, code. And Ubuntu will be the first new distro to get Linspire's CNR. Press release within.
Source: Linux Today Like the previously featured articles on new KDE 4 technologies for Job Processes or SVG Widgets, today we feature the shiny new multimedia technology Phonon
Source: Linux Today Want to show off your snazzy 3d desktop, or demonstrate the features of your favourite new program? Make a movie of your desktop to capture all your actions, edit it, then add a soundtrack
Source: Linux Today The problem is that using open source software isn't for the faint of heart as you need a certain level of technical expertise to deploy and manage these applications
Source: Linux Today The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager
Source: Linux Today Andreas Jaeger, sat down and talked about Microsoft, Linux and where the MS deal is taking SUSE
Source: Linux Today Here's the story behind both the rising popularity of 'sound card' digital modes in amateur radio and how Fldigi lets you enjoy enjoy them on Linux
Source: Linux Today "Last year, I took a trip to Asia. To stay in touch, I carried a GSM world phone, capable of receiving telephone calls in the countries I was visiting.
Source: Linux Today Last October we had compared the performance of the open-source R300 display driver against the closed-source fglrx driver for ATI Radeon graphics cards
Source: Linux Today Many Linux apps let you manage your movie collection, or your book collection, or your music collection--but Data Crow is one of the few that handles all of the above, plus software and images
Source: Linux Today If you are comfortable at the DOS prompt, you should see a lot of similarities in Linux; if most of your experience has been in Windows, the command line may seem a little awkward at first
Source: Linux Today Without the ability to suspend and resume, laptop users are doomed to spend several hours of their lives waiting for machines to boot and shutdown
Source: Linux Today Today's security advisories: mozilla-firefox (Debian GNU/Linux); wireshark (Fedora Core); gd, libwmf, postgresql, php, gtk+2.0, and kernel (Mandriva Linux); bind, java-1.4.2-ibm, and postgresql (Red Hat Linux); postgresql, samba, and samba-swat (rPath Linux); and postgresql-7.4/-8.0/-8.1, bind9, samba, and kdelibs (Ubuntu).
Source: Linux Today This particular review will address some of the same user issues but also will focus on the device itself, as well as on the N800 as a platform for custom applications
Source: Linux Today Earlier today, I stumbled upon an article that was filled with reader comments stating that the sellers of open source software are to be dismissed as scam artists
Source: Linux Today Do your ever wonder if some self-proclaimed open source projects really 'get it' what it means to truly be about being 'free and open source' versus just using FOSS for other means ?
Source: Linux Today Over the past several months Apple has been battering Microsoft's software with a series of adverts .
Source: Linux Today Following my recent article in which I wrote that neither I, nor several financial analysis firms, were aware of any companies that were planning to deploy Oracle's Unbreakable Linux, a handful of companies have told me that they are giving Unbreakable Linux a try
Source: Linux Today IT managers looking to build an open source-based networking infrastructure will shortly be able to get their hands on free software that handles a range of routing and security features
Source: Linux Today The first step was to get approval from my manager to run Linux instead of XP
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