Desktop Cube - The desktop cube has to be one of my favorite plugins for Compiz Fusion. It is absolutely amazing what you can do with the cube. You can add a few effects, turn the cube into a sphere or Cylinder, have the windows pop out of the cube, have it transparent, or even have a fish tank in the middle of the cube. The basic function of the cube, though, is to organize your workspace into a cube of course. However, the shape changes depending on how many desktops you have. It can be a flat sheet, triangle, cube, etc.
A scientific project that will help govern how the European Commission tackles climate change is relying on Linux and the Géant academic grid to complete its vital work.
HP is also rebranding its desktop virtualization suite as the HP Virtual Client Essentials, and adding Linux support for its broker software, called Session Allocation Manager, which runs only on Windows today, HP said.
Vietnam has officially become a member of Asianux, an organisation dedicated to the development of free software, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Quoc Thang announced on Dec. 5.
Compared to Puppy, it delivers a mighty punch in beauty, but it is more than twice the size. However, Puppy has a greater assortment of programs and better overall functionality. Luckily, you can use both.
Google's Android team announces the availability of the Android Dev Phone 1. The device is the first SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked device based on the Android mobile operating system, a Linux-based OS designed as an alternative to smart mobile and wireless phones based on Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian, Apple's iPhone and RIM. The device should appeal to applications developers who won't buy the Android-based T-Mobile G1 because they don't subscribe to T-Mobile's network.
Below is a report submitted from the ICT Director of the Parliament of Zimbabwe on his presentation given at the e-Parliament Conference in Brussels. The Parliament of Zimbabwe has chosen to use Ubuntu on their desktops, and possibly on their servers too. The ICT Director is also a member of the Ubuntu Zimbabwe LoCo Team.
Very nice, very nice indeed. I am not sure (after looking at Top) whether this would truly run well on a 128Mb Ram system, but it certainly runs well on mine.
The look is plain enough to be uncluttered, and slick enough to not be the Xfce default theme. Everything I have works out-of-the-box, and I am very impressed.
A. It is interesting what is happening with the mini PC form factor. These sub $500 PCs, some of which run Linux to save money, were lighting the world on fire for a while. They are incredibly small and light; many have small solid-state hard drives and long battery life. The Dell you mention was on sale on Black Friday for $299, which sounds like a great deal.
We will make a new Ogg Theora (with Vorbis audio) opensource/free-based video derivative. This derivative will play natively in Firefox 3.1 release (v3.1 is due around the end of 2008).
This article explains the new features in Python 3.0, compared to 2.6. Python 3.0, also known as “Python 3000” or “Py3K”, is the first ever intentionally backwards incompatible Python release. There are more changes than in a typical release, and more that are important for all Python users. Nevertheless, after digesting the changes, you’ll find that Python really hasn’t changed all that much – by and large, we’re mostly fixing well-known annoyances and warts, and removing a lot of old cruft.
That looks to be a rough average of about 300,000 downloads of the free and open source OpenOffice.org application suite every day for the last 28 days, which means about 8.5Million downloads this month.
The extensive use of proprietary software will lead to digital colonisation, as it forbids people from sharing knowledge, founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman has said.
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Stallman said that companies such as Microsoft were trying to create colonies by not sharing the knowledge behind the software. ‘’Just like colonialism, they are following the divide and rule policy. After making some softwares, they are asking us to use it or to think like that. Here, people become slaves of this monopoly,’’ he said.
