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Source: Linux Today Aside from offering tabs and a few much-needed security enhancements, IE7 was definitely in the ho-hum category. Firefox seemed safe for at least another year or two "It is not
Source: Linux Today Today, I'll talk about one of the eyecandy features provided by Qt 4: SVG rendering in applications
Source: Linux Today For several years, German automobile manufacturer Audi AG, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has been steadily migrating its engineering systems over to Linux
Source: Linux Today An open source wireless tracking system for following people around buildings got its first public use last week at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin
Source: Linux Today The program is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux, but the Windows versions only protect the Firefox browser so far. The Linux version protects any application launched once DieHard is running
Source: Linux Today Educational hardware pioneer One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has its hands full juggling priorities--developing nations, pricing and user interface (UI) among them
Source: Linux Today Fresh light on mainframe total cost of ownership reveals Big Blue's big iron is cheaper than a roomful of servers
Source: Linux Today Now, the LSB (Linux Standard Base) project and its parent organization, the FSG (Free Standards Group), have a plan for how to make it easier for both users and developers
Source: Linux Today A celebrity CIO reviews the desktop operating system contenders in search of the next-generation office computer
Source: Linux Today A few hours before the new year, Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.20-rc3 Linux kernel
Source: Linux Today The Tamil Nadu government, which is on a fast-track pushing the state to the top in the Indian IT sector, has almost shut its door on the software giant, Microsoft, preferring the Open Source Systems
Source: Linux Today Open source database maker MySQL will soon release the alpha version of its Falcon storage engine, designed for high-volume Web server environments, a company executive said Wednesday
Source: Linux Today Samba guru explains why he couldn't stomach the Microsoft-Novell deal. 'If you want to sell out, you should ask for more,' he says
Source: Linux Today A volunteer effort called Fedora Legacy to provide longer-term support for Red Hat's hobbyist-oriented Linux version is shutting down
Source: Linux Today Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth talks why it may finally be time for Linux to out-innovate Apple and Microsoft on the desktop
Source: Linux Today Throughout 2006, Linux and open source continued their march toward the mainstream of enterprise software. Perhaps no one event exemplified this trend more than Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss in April
Source: Linux Today You never quite wrap your head around how anti-consumer Microsoft's policies are until they bite you in the bum
Source: Linux Today I wanted to try out Ubuntu before installing it and the Live CD is the best way to do it
Source: Linux Today For the past month I've been building and playing with Leonard 'paniq' Ritter's Aldrin, a music production system that combines a tracker-style composition interface with audio synthesis and processing modules called machines
Source: Linux Today Unlike other RSS aggregators, infoRSS is a Thunderbird/Firefox extension that runs inside your email client or browser
Source: Linux Today "In effect, make your MySQL server disappear from the outside world
Source: Linux Today How many times has this happened to you: no sooner are the holidays over than one of your friends begs you to let him borrow the brand new DVD set you just got--and the next thing you know, it's Labor Day, and your so-called friend swears he wasn't the one who borrowed it ?
Source: Linux Today To virtualize means to take something of one form and make it appear to be another form. Virtualizing a computer means to make it appear to be multiple computers or a different computer entirely
Source: Linux Today Today's security advisories: thunderbird (Fedora Core); libmodplug and kernel (Mandriva Linux); and firefox and thunderbird (rPath Linux).
Source: Linux Today To me, open source means free software that can compete with the big boys--and often blow them out of the water
Source: Linux Today I recently wrote an article outlining my predictions for Vista's share of the operating system market with a general conclusion that it should follow the trend XP set--claiming around 40% in the first two years through the decline of the older Microsoft systems
Source: Linux Today Every year, we wish, hope and dream that it will be the year when GNU/Linux will gain critical mass appeal--not that it has failed to significantly widen its base
Source: Linux Today Since this was a small business with a limited budget, I suggested they try OpenOffice. But, in the end, they chose to purchase MS Office again
Source: Linux Today Lately, I have reflected a lot on my Linux career in contrast to other IT work and environments. Linux started in 1997 for me and encompassed about nine years
Source: Linux Today Every year since about 2003 has been called the year of the Linux desktop--and then, when that fails to transpire, those who predict these things set about rehashing their predictions for the next year
Source: Linux Today But is Mr D a typical user? The sort that make up 90 percent of the PC using public? The answer, of course, is a resounding 'no '
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