People kept asking me about minimized window thumbnails. I caved.
1. Patch for core 2. Patch for workarounds
If you are a Linux User or an IT professional using FOSS or Linux, this is a survey you might want to take. You can complete it in 10 minutes or so and it would greatly help Don and Iffat in completing their project.
The first thing users will note is that Alawalk is not as visually appealing as Kupfer or Do. Appearances are often deceiving for Alawalk is a capable little tool that, providing you set up a keyboard shortcut or place a launcher on your panel/dock, provides a faster way to go about many daily activities.
It's a Cross-Platform international dictionary Software that supports all the major international languages.
‘A new start’ GTK theme looks, from the word go, pretty much unlike anything else you’ve tried before.
Booting the live DVD initially didn’t work but the boot menu does give the option of a safe graphics mode also known as VESA. This got the ball rolling and a good looking Gnome desktop followed. Similar in looks to Mandriva but with a massive menu. Seriously there are tons of applications included here and this is down to PCLinuxOS being aimed for easy use and compatibility with everything. Clicking the Install icon will ask you for a password which I thought was a bit strange however I guessed at Root and it seemed to work fine. The standard formatting questions follow and the install begins. The install process wont let you go without a bootloader so if you have one in place, make sure you don't install over it and make your other systems un-bootable. Its not a pretty road back if that happens!
I was vaguely browsing through different Linux related videos in YouTube when I found out these incredible RedHat commercials. They are not just hard core RedHat commercials, they are more like advertisements for Free Software and Open Source in general. More over, these videos gives a glimpse of the kind of knowledge and expertise RedHat have on everything Linux and Open Source.
Third alpha of ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat released, many improvement and packages upgrade all listed on Maverick blueprint list. Check older review for ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 2 Here.
The gadget world (comprising of mini computers, network devices, multimedia consoles, gaming systems, electronic toys, mobile phones and a lot of embedded devices) is steadily turning to linux. Linux has become ubiquitous, many of us might be using it on our favorite devices even without being aware of it. Here is a list of the electronic devices on which Linux has made a prolific resurgence.
As of yesterday, 1 million Korean smartphones serviced by SK Telecom, Korea’s leading cellular service provider, now run Google’s Android OS, just six months after SKT introduced the first Android-based smartphone, the Motoroi, on the domestic market.
"People are finally beginning to figure out how successful Android is," Schimdt said at the inaugural Techonomy conference. "The number was about 100,000 [a day] about two months ago. It looks like Android is not just phenomenal but incredibly phenomenal in its growth rate. God knows how long that will continue."
Probably for a long time, and that's great if you have a vested interest in Google's success. While the open source platform itself is free, the more Android phones in the wild, the more people are using Google for Web searches, and that translates into cold, hard Google greenbacks.
We decided to take our question to Google and ask them if Augen was allowed to install the Android Market and other core Google apps and a spokesperson responded that “Augen included proprietary Google software in their product via an unauthorized vendor. Google only licenses its software to partners and OHA [Open Handset Alliance] members directly.”
Why is this a big deal if Android is open source, anyway? As we’ve talked about before, the Google Android OS is open-source, but core Google apps, including the Android Market, are closed source and must be licensed.
Some of the core developers behind FreePBX — a well-known, open-source phone system — have teamed up and started The 2600hz Project, a commercial entity promoting a collection of open-source telephony applications and libraries. Today, they are releasing blue.box, a reworked version of open source FreePBX. The new venture is co-founded by Darren Schreiber and is also a subsidiary of newly formed VoIP Inc. The 2600hz Project received $250,000 in funding from an unnamed investor.
Standing, Norman Danner, associate professor of computer science, speaks to students from Bergen Community College about privacy issues in medical records during the 2010 Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) Project Summer Institutes Workshop July 30. The group is developing a mobile application for use by EMS personnel for recording medical data when on calls.
CEO of travel industry transaction processing company Amadeus, David V Jones, has outlined the company’s gradual move to the cloud and discussed why open source software will be used across all areas of the business by 2012.
In Africa, the Ubuntu Linux software package has kicked off adaptation, utilization and contributions to open source mentality. There is abundant beauty and functionality in Ubuntu (South Africa). Try it out. Wazobia (Nigeria) Linux as it prepares to make a debut promises to augment open source mentality in Africa. The availability and affordability of these open source packages for development will no doubt go a long way in helping established African scientists to attempt developing empirical solutions for common problems that will impact on science, technology, agricultural practices and local healthcare delivery practices.
From time to time, MSPmentor explores open source trends in the managed services market. There are anecdotal examples of MSPs leveraging open source. But for the most part, I think MSPs serving small business leverage traditional, Microsoft- and Windows-centric tools. Still, OTRS (Open Technology Real Services) caught my attention this week with a 3.0 help desk beta release. As you may have guessed, OTRS focuses on open source solutions. Is the OTRS help desk ready for prime time? Here’s a reality check.
Yet Adobe has always tried to find a place on the back end and perhaps a web content management system like Day's provides the entrée they have been looking for. But what of Adobe's existing relationship with Alfresco, another open source content management vendor, and what might the deal mean to open source content management in general?
Gottlieb does acknowledge there are differences:
* Because the source code is open, the cycle of identification and resolution of security vulnerabilities happens a lot faster than with closed source code. * Open source software has lead the way in social software. Social functionality has the potential to be more vulnerable than read-only functionality. Anything that a user submits can be malicious and needs to be filtered for potential exploits. A static website with no user-inputs has less to worry about. * Open source software tends to be more modular. The modules that you use may be less secure than the core application.
After one week of intense collaboration, participants in the One Week | One Tool workshop, organized by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University, announced the launch of Anthologize, a free, open source tool to publish weblog content in a variety of book formats.
As a software developer, should you consider the open source model for your products? When Richard Stallman first launched the Free Software movement in 1983, it was indeed a revolutionary concept in software development and distribution. But today's concept of commercial open source is not as different from the traditional software sales model as some developers assume, and companies that adopt this model are likely to run into many of the same grim realities. Before you leap into a commercial open source model for your products, be sure to check your assumptions:
Make open source your friend. Back in the day, a fledgling entrepreneur had to spend millions on a tech team to write every line of code from scratch. Nowadays, practically everything is already written (and free) – you just need to know where to look.
Find technologists that are comfortable mining the world of open source to create a prototype. When YouTube launched, they didn’t create their own Flash-player—they bought a 10 Euro license for a great open source player. Using open source software will save you time and money and will allow you to…
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Open source and platforms are here to stay. They’re going to shake up industries that up until now we’ve thought were bullet-proof and redistribute the power back to the little guy. Personally, I can’t wait.
Developers, ISVs and systems integrators looking to add a telephony component to their homegrown portfolio of services now have an open source application from the 2600hz Project, a consortium of developers of telephony-related open source software.
Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that the inaugural SPLASH Conference, to be held in Sydney on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, will unite leaders from Ingres, Jaspersoft, Liferay, Sugar CRM, Pentaho and Red Hat to share insights with Australian technology companies.
Although Firefox has already emerged as the number one browser in a few countries, there are strong signs that what we've long believed would happen is happening right now: Firefox is emerging as the most popular browser of all. Yes, Internet Explorer does have more market share than any other browser, and even gained a bit recently. However, new data from Statcounter shows that Firefox will overtake Internet Explorer in European market share next month. That trend will only continue.
GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, today announced the launch of its Open Source Software (OSS) Partner Program. In recent months, adoption of GoGrid as a core and fundamental technology platform for enabling leading open source solutions to the cloud has accelerated. By packaging on-demand versions of software and leveraging the GoGrid Exchange, a unique cloud solutions marketplace, open source partners and businesses alike are realizing increased deployments and usage of popular open source software offerings.
GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure and hybrid hosting provider, has launched its Open Source Software (OSS) Partner Program.
The beta version of Tomcat 7 came out last week. This is a Big Deal! Tomcat has been at various times the reference implementation of Java Servlets, and Tomcat 7 now includes support for the latest version of the Servlet spec. Then there's GlassFish -- once Sun's, now Oracle'
The Oracle white paper "Ready for Business: Oracle GlassFish Server" announces the availability of Oracle GlassFish Server 3, the commercially supported offering for GlassFish Server Open Source Edition and the industry’s first application server to support Java EE 6. The white paper highlights the advantages of Oracle GlassFish Server 3 for businesses, providing an overview of the product’s core features along with a closer look at some of the new capabilities that are part of Java EE 6.
Drupal-based Open Scholar is a free, open source content management system designed to easily build Web sites for classrooms, academic projects, individual professors, or entire universities. It installs easily and can host an unlimited number of sites on a single installation. Open Scholar supports customizable domains so schools can have relevant URLs and requires no programming knowledge to have a site up and running in minutes.
Acquia have announced Drupal Commons 1.0, an open source social networking tool for enterprises. Drupal Commons is a complete system for fast deployment of a fully functional social networking site, either as part of a company's internal infrastructure, or as part of an externally facing community site.
In a major coup for open source software lovers, the newly-launched CBSNewYork.com is powered by popular blogging and content management platform WordPress.
The text book needs to be re-invented and tutor-student connectedness exploited. Oh and ditch that expensive software and go FOSS. There is a lot to look forward to.
Kitware, a company that develops open source software and advanced research solutions, today announced it has received a $1.07 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to improve the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK).
One point I'd like to make is the difference between "free" and open source, which has been an ongoing struggle for many to understand. Indeed, open source software is mostly free, though free software is not always open source. Furthermore, the most important aspect of open source is it's openness, not that it's free.
The European Commission (EC) is planning to spend €3.34 million until 2016 to continue the services provided by its projects - such as OSOR.EU and Semic.EU - on open source and on electronic data exchange.
The use of so-called open source textbooks, offered by companies like FlatWorld Knowledge, is also on the rise. “Students who are assigned open source textbooks can usually download a copy for free, or they can buy a printed and bound version for $20 to $40,” Ms. Allen said. (Suggest it to your future professors.)
The University of Illinois system was awarded a $150,000 one-year grant from the Department of Education with the help of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin to develop open-source textbooks for students. Charles Evans, University of Illinois associate vice president for academic affairs, will be heading the project.
Open source sharing of data could be the key to developing important new drugs.
The findings of the research and any applications or technology developed are to be released to the open source community, the spokesman said. Working with the open source community will help speed up the adoption of the technologies, and attract developers to build applications for the target populations, IBM said in March.
The company said that the Open Collaboration Research (OCR) project will focus on the development of new designs for mobile device interfaces that can easily be used by people who are semiliterate or illiterate, as well as those who have limited access, or no access, to information technology.
Based on my work with Grassroots Mapping (you can read more in an earlier Idea Lab post) — especially in Lima, Peru — OMC and I have many common goals. We share an interest in participatory and open-source mapping and a desire to teach cartographic literacy as an enriching and empowering activity. The opportunity to use Grassroots Mapping tools — such as aerial photography from balloons and kites — to support such an ambitious project was too much to pass up.
Team director Andrew Dickson described Trev as an open-source car, with designs and plans free online.
A home-brewed graphing calculator called Open SciCal promises to put a powerful machine built entirely from open-source hardware into the pockets of quant jocks and statisticians.
Google Inc. on Thursday acquired Instantiations Inc., a Tualatin-based developer of open source software development tools.
RCP Developer is quite nice, so it’s a shame that the industry has largely moved on from Rich Client Java development towards HTML5, Flash, and mobile platforms. It’s a great product so there may be enough interest in it to sustain it as a viable open source community under the Eclipse umbrella.
Methods: Here we report the development of a simple open source program module (OpenPPI_predictor) that can generate a putative protein- protein interaction network for target genomes. This tool uses the orthologous interactome network data from a related, experimentally studied organism.
One by one, soldiers just arriving in Baghdad were taken into a room and questioned by their commanding officers. "All questions led up to the big question," explains former Army Spc. Josh Stieber. "If someone were to pull out a weapon in a marketplace full of unarmed civilians, would you open fire on that person, even if you knew you would hurt a lot of innocent people in the process?"
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening. This summer has given us one such example: the climate-change bill, for which President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the US Senate, because it stands no chance of passage.
Our app aims to gives you the full picture, with all the evidence, scientific context and links to peer-reviewed research. It has another useful function – users can send me reports on which sceptical arguments they encounter.
Global climate talks have sunk to a new low after China and the US clashed and rich countries lined up against poor in a refusal to compromise on emission reduction targets.
With just six days' negotiating time left before a critical meeting in Cancun, Mexico, some diplomats fear that the fragile deal struck in Copenhagen last December could unravel.
A thick acrid smog enveloped Moscow today as scores of fires blazed and peat bogs smouldered outside the city.
The research now establishing economic sensitivity to high oil prices, especially for commuters from America’s suburbs, is myriad. Indeed, depending on how high gasoline prices go, housing affordability itself is now more likely to fall with distance. This was only exacerbated in the past ten years as home buyers, looking to escape housing inflation, migrated further and further from city cores, to the peripheries. More broadly, we now understand that poverty is now a phenomenon of the suburbs, according to a study released this year by The Brookings Institute. And given that trend, I have taken another look at one of my favored indicators: food stamp usage. Below is a chart of food stamp users (the SNAP program) in one of America’s quintessential post-war, car commuting regions: San Bernardino County.
The Coalition has announced it will scrap controversial plans for an internet filter if it wins the August 21 election.
Federal Labor's controversial plan to filter the internet could be dead in the water after the Coalition announced it opposed the policy.
Richard M. Stallman Speech NCHC Taiwan 2005