Well lets say that yes I am winning, but I have forgotten how much configuring there is in a “geeky” distro. And yes I have been told that using the newer distros would take a toll on me and that is really correct. I have kde up and running now today I have to [...]
One of the main reasons people move from Windows to Linux is the promise of greater security from malware on the Internet. Everyone knows you need to add extra security to try to keep a Windows desktop safe, but what do you have to do to accomplish the same thing on Linux? To answer that [...]
Bill SnyderAs open source goes mainstream, big commercial software companies reap as much revenue as scrappy independents
Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success? A provocative new study by a longtime software analyst suggests that the giants of the commercial software world are cashing in on the popularity of open [...]
I have been asked to review the XO computers from the One Laptop Per Child project. This is the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences, as well as those of some children with whom I will be working. I could easily gush over it or complain about how small the keyboard [...]
Well it is a long story but I slapped together a computer for a friend and she said to install a linux distro on it. Well her fav distro is Arch one that I have had a problem or two with as the years have gone by but okay one more time for her.
I [...]
Automattic, the parent company of popular open source blogging platform WordPress, announced this week it received $29 million in funding from four investors who will take a minority stake in the company. Though this isn’t the first round of financing for the not quite three-year-old company, it has drawn a lot of notice because one [...]
According to a press release issued earlier this month by Finjan, a security research firm, compromised Web servers are infecting thousands of visitors daily with malware that turns their Windows machines into unwitting bots to do the bidding of an as yet unidentified criminal organization. Security firms ScanSafe and SecureWorks have since added their own [...]
With Linux on the desktop going from a slow crawl to verging on an explosion, many have toiled with the question: How do we make this happen faster? A well-known Austin-based Linux Advocate thinks he has the answer.
Source: LXer
Okay when you wake up and the Temp outside is -15 degrees and a windchill of -35 degrees you just know it is not going to be a good day. And the bad part is they claim that is about as good as it will get today. Darn and this is only January.
Today marks ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation announced its intention to release the source code of the then in-development Netscape Communicator 5.0, heralding the beginning of what would become the Mozilla project. At the same time, Netscape stopped charging for Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Netscape Communicator Standard Edition 4.0.
Yikes now this is starting [...]