IBM announces 'Beyond Linux' strategy
IBM is expanding its open source strategy beyond Linux by targeting eight new technology areas where it will focus open source attention going forward.
Last week at LinuxWorld in San…
New York Times won't let Linux users view (some) videos
There is no technical reason why a GNU/Linux user running the proprietary Flash player can't view New York Times video, but for some reason that newspaper's honchos have decided to limit video…
SCALE 5x Issues Call For Papers
SCALE 5x, the Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for papers. SCALE 5x will be held on Feb 10-11, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. Past speakers have included Chris Dibona,…
Microsoft offers support to Mozilla
Let’s face it. Microsoft till date has been no friend of the open-source movement. There is enough bad-blood between open source evangelists and Microsoft to fill up pages. However this could be…
Ubuntu update flaw
An update was released for Dapper on 21 August 2006 UTC, which has been found to cause problems on certain systems.
A subsequent update published 17 hours later corrects this, so if your…
Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide
Check out this Ubuntu starter guide maintained by the Linux Center of University of Latvia. A great resource for anyone using Ubuntu. It’s Wiki based too, so feel free to contribute.
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Flash 9 for Xubuntu (Kind-of)
When Flash 8 and 9 weren’t released for Linux, I thought, "why doesn’t someone just edit Flash’s code and change the 7 to a 9?" Turns out it’s possible. Here’s how:
1) Make a back-up of the…
Intel to help Vietnam's communists go open-source
The Vietnamese Communist Party's decision to move its computer systems to open-source software got a boost on Friday from Intel, the world's largest chip maker.
Under terms of a memorandum…
GIMP vs. Photoshop - What still needs to be done?
We all know that the GIMP is more or less the de-facto standard for image editing in Linux, where Adobe Photoshop is the standard on the Mac and Windows (and some Linux boxes using Crossover…
Kerala logs Microsoft out
After the cola ban, it is now the turn of Microsoft to log out of Kerala. Children in 12,500 high schools in the state, India’s most literate, will not be taught Windows. Instead, instructors are…