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Free software menus reinvented 2008-02-21 19:26:00 Free software programmers are fond of saying that they'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel. Apparently that attitude no longer applies to desktop menus, considering all the new options springing up. A few years ago, just about the only menu choices on the main desktop environments were the ones that shipped with them, or the exhaustive Debian ones. For five years, GNOME didn't even have a menu editor. However, recent years have seen an outbreak of experimentation, ranging from Windows-inspired menus such as openSUSE's default Slab, the Vista Menu for GNOME Panel (which seems to have taken up where the apparently defunct USlab port to Ubuntu stopped), and the menu in the newly released KDE 4, to menus whose goal is to integrate social ne
BlankOn... Indonesian Linux Distro. 2008-01-24 20:47:00 BlankOn is a Linux
distro developed by Yayasan Penggerak Linux Indonesia (YPLI) and Komunitas Ubuntu Indonesia that purposed to create Linux distro that suitabe for common Linux user.Ubuntu Linux was choose as BlankOn development base. It is make BlankOn easy and reliable to used by user. BlankOn project developed together to create a unique Indonesian
Linux distro. recent release of BlankOn is BlankOn 2 with project code "Konde". This project sponsored by UNESCO as FOSS implementation project.I think this project will make open source more popular in Indonesia and "Indonesia Go Open Source" will be realize soon...Screenshots : BlankOn Screenshots.Download : BlankOn Download.
Sun acquires MySQL...!!! 2008-01-19 23:15:00 There is a announce at MySQL
Blog that Sun Microsystems plans to acquire MySQL AB. I hope this acquisition will make MySQl be better than before, cause Sun is the company that is know very well about open source. Arno (MySQL's Vice President for Community) describes reaction to the news by the MySQL community as "a mixture of various feelings, including excitement, pride, disbelief and satisfaction, but also anxiety".
Linux Distro Guide (Part 2) 2008-01-16 06:58:00 OK... We met again. Direct then to our discussions that were further.Distro for the user that had used Linux
.The user in this category was:User that used linux a short time before, but for reasons of certain afterwards moved to the other operating system.User that has used linux, but in daily him did not use linux.So as distro that diperuntukan for this category must have the criterion:Easy to installed.Hardware support that good enough.User interface that really pulled and found it easy to be used, but to have enough configuration options.Have much enough feature, but had the capability to can with easily was activated and turn off by user.Repository that was complete enough.Application version that quite new.Release time that was arranged and made sense.Distro that had criteria above was Read more:Guide
Linux Distro Guide (Part 1) 2008-01-15 09:07:00 Operating System in the world of open source especially Linux
not something that was standard and stiff. We were given by the freedom to customize the Linux so that in accordance with the requirement and our appetite (of course by honoring the work of the other person also), so that why a great number distro that circled at this time. Therefore according to me was not distro that better than the other distro, because every distro was made for the certain aim, available only distro whatever that was most appropriate for his user. In broad outline distro linux if being inspected from the aim of his production could be divided into three, that is: Distro for desktop. Distro for server. Distro for the special requirement.Although not closing the possibility of having some distro that was multi Read more:Guide
Set up wireless broadband access with YaST 2008-01-12 00:41:00 Thanks to Linux kernel updates and newly added drivers, wireless broadband
access is now easy to set up on laptops. However, some vendors, such as Verizon, don't support broadband PCMCIA adapters. A script can help, but trying to edit a script can be difficult for entry-level users, and Internet service providers (ISP) often provide little information that can help. Enter openSUSE's YaST, a graphical program that can help users configure their laptops to use wireless broadband PC Cards and other types of modems to connect to a network. First, you need to set up the adapter and its drivers. These instructions come from my experience using a laptop running openSUSE 10.3 with kernel 2.6.22-13-0.3, YaST 2.15.58-12, KDE 3.5.8, KNetworkMana
Joomla! 2008-01-08 05:46:00 Joomla
! is a free, award-winning content management system written in PHP which is allows users to easily publish their content on the world wide web and intranets. Joomla is created as an open-source project where individuals and teams contribute their skills to its development as well as its supporting systems. While Joomla is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible. Because of its extensible structure, there aren't many things you cannot do with Joomla!. A short list of some important features of Joomla! are the following:Page CachingWeb IndexingRSS FeedsPrintable Page VersionsNewsflashesBlogsForumsPollsCalendarsWebsite SearchingLanguage Internationalisation.Project Site Site Documentation Developer Network Extension Directory Joomla is releas
Camino 2008-01-08 05:21:00 The Camino
Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.Camino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with the powerful web-browsing capabilities of the Gecko rendering engine. Built and tested by thousands of volunteers, Mozilla’s Gecko brings cutting-edge innovations and capabilities to users in a standards-friendly and socially responsible form.FeaturesFrom new features like the system spell-checker and session saving to improvements in trademark features like annoyance blocking, Camino 1.5 makes all your web tasks more enjoyable. Bu
When Enlightenment met Ubuntu 2008-01-06 21:02:00 Many Linux distributions try to be visually appealing. Some use Beryl-Compiz for cool 3-D effects on resource-laden boxes, while others turn to desktops like Enligtenment for a little bit of gloss at the expense of functionality. Geubuntu is a new distro that combines the best of those two worlds, equipping Enlightenment
with bits from GNOME and Xfce on top of Ubuntu
. Geubuntu 7.10 "Luna Nuova" is only the second release of the distro, which seems to trace Ubuntu's release cycle. As the version number suggests, Geubuntu 7.10 is based on Ubuntu 7.10, from which it borrows the kernel and user conveniences like the restricted-drivers management utility. Geubuntu is an installable live CD, but it can also be
OpenMoko to Show Open-Source Phone 2008-01-04 09:44:00 The open source phone lives! OpenMoko will show a new version of their "Linux handheld computer," the Neo1973, at CES this year – and what's better is, they may be about to start selling it. The Neo1973 created a lot of buzz at last year's CES, too. It's a fully open-source smart phone developed by a spinoff of a major Taiwanese manufacturer, and it's the only handheld "open from the iron to the eyeballs," according to OpenMoko's vice president of marketing, Steven Mosher. That means that like a PC, but unlike most phones and PDAs, owners can truly do whatever they want with it. The OpenMoko is even more open than Google's much-heralded Android project, Mosher says. "The Android platform is kind of half-open and half-closed. It's closed at the bottom; you can't put it on any phon Read more:Source
Differences between European and U.S. adoption of open source 2008-01-04 09:38:00 In my role as pseudo general counsel at Alfresco, I wade through a lot of contracts. As part of this, I'm constantly trying to find the right balance between the needs of our customers and partners in different geographies. Interestingly, our European
and North American customers view licensing very, very differently. Generally speaking, our European customers want our software under an open-source license (GPLv2). North Americans? They want the benefits of open source
without the obligations and perceived risk (meaning, they prefer a dual-license approach that allows them to contribute back modifications if they wish, but not out of duty). I've been trying to figure out why the two geographies, surrounded only by the Atlantic Ocean, have such different perspectives on licensing
Get produvtive with GENOME Do 2008-01-04 09:26:00 We’re all swamped with information: emails, documents, pictures and the hundreds of websites we visit every week. There are two ways to deal with the data overload: Get organised and file everything in its right pace. Or you can use GNOME Do, a desktop launcher for Ubuntu in the style of Launchy for Windows and Katapult for KDE, which acts as your humble servant and finds exactly what you’re looking for when you’re looking for it. Sounds too good to be true? GNOME Do is still in the early stages of development but is already showing signs of becoming a desktop essential. Using GNOME Do is simple enough. Use the meta key (usually the Windows key on most keyboards) and the spacebar to bring the search box to the front, then type in what it is you’re looking for. Looking for a directo
Top 10 Open-Source Software Stories Of 2007 2008-01-02 21:22:00 Yes, there were lawsuits. But there were also important advances in GPL, Apache, Web services, and Java, which made commercial software suppliers more worried than ever. The past year was the most tumultuous in recent memory for the field of open-source software. Instead of mere sniping, such as the "Truth About Linux" campaign, open source has come under more direct assault. It's almost axiomatic at this point: the more open source succeeds in the enterprise, the more threatening it is to entrenched interests. IT managers are asking the questions that are making many commercial software suppliers set for battle. "If commercial software is so good, how come it can be matched by a group working for free?" "If free is bad, show me the value your company has added to its commercial c Read more:Software
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5 Things Open Source Needs In 2008 2008-01-02 21:06:00 More hardware support and better communication from Microsoft are just two of the things the open-source community must get in 2008 to continue its momentum. There's little question that open source software -- and the open source philosophy -- has made giant strides in 2007. As tempting as it can be to just look back and feel good about our progress, it's the right time for the community to take a long look forward and figure out what needs to be done to continue -- and even accelerate -- momentum. To get the conversation started, I've compiled a list of five suggested "to-do" items for open source in 2008. Some of the items are evangelical; some are introspective. All of these things garnered at least some notice in 2007 and are bound to remain at least as important or gain tha Read more:Source
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Scribus: Professional page layout for Linux 2008-01-02 20:33:00 Whenever people discuss software that they would like to see ported to Linux
, they mention desktop publishing (DTP) applications like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress. But Linux already supports an application aimed at DTP users. Scribus is an open-source page layout
program that runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Is it a viable alternative to proprietary products for professional production work? For nearly a decade, starting in the mid '90s, my primary responsibility at work was editing and laying out graphics and text in documents. QuarkXpress was the first page layout program I used, followed quickly by various versions of Aldus (and later Adobe) PageMaker. A few years ago, I started to work with Adobe's successor to PageMaker, I
Sun launches backline OpenOffice support for distributors, OEMs 2007-12-29 00:09:00 Sun launched a new program this week offering back line support for OpenOffice
that is targeted at OEMs and distributors
. The intent is to provide corporate customers with fixes and patches for unique issues and problems that may affect only a handful of customers, or OpenOffice conflict with particular distributions that may not get fixed by the OpenOffice.org community, Mark Herring, Sun’s senior director of marketing for StarOffice and OpenOffice told ZDNet. Sun is in discussions with the leading Linux distributors including Novell and Ubuntu, and IBM, which launched its own Symphony desktop based on OpenOffice last September. Sun’s role would be invisible to the end user; the OEM or distributor would pay Sun for backline support and extend to their customers who use OpenOffice.
Linux's tear on the desktop 2007-12-28 23:58:00 Desktop Linux
hurts MicrosoftLinux has kept a big chunk of the server business out of Microsoft’s hands. But in 2008, Linux will hurt Microsoft on the desktop. Here’s how. A new computing platformThanks to Moore’s Law and evolving application needs, a new computing platform arrives every 10 years. Mainframes in the ’50s, minicomputers in the ’60s, PCs in the ’70s, microcontrollers in the ’80s, PDAs and cell phones in the ’90s and now sub-$400 - soon to be sub-$300 notebooks. Small and light enough to be carried everywhere, these sub-notes provide Internet access, PDA functionality and basic mail and document creation functionality at a rock-bottom price. Asustek is expected to build 1,000,000 Eee sub-notes in Q1 ‘08 alone. Asustek’s competitors are just getting warmed
A visual GRUB configuration editor 2007-12-28 23:48:00 If you've been running Linux long enough to have upgraded your system more than once, you probably have several Linux kernels lurking around your system. If you discover that a certain application no longer works for you, you can go back to a previous kernel to try to run your program. GRUB, the boot loader found in most Linux distributions, lets you choose among operating systems and kernels installed on your box. Many people, however, fear that messing with GRUB may ruin their system, because of its many esoteric options, and configuration file text that often contains no help comments. QGRUBEditor can help you view and edit the GRUB boot loader from a graphical user interface.(source from : "" by Sergio Gonzalez Duran )
Samba Project to provide Windows protocol access to all open source developers 2007-12-28 23:42:00 Thanks to the Samba
project, documentation about Windows
networking protocols is now available to free software developers who want it. With the help of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Samba has hammered out an agreement for obtaining the documentation and has set up the new Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) to make it accessible to other free software projects.( source from : "" by Bruce Byfield )
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World Wind -- an open source alternative to Google Earth 2007-12-28 23:28:00 Few of Google
's projects, rumors of projects, and acquisitions have generated as much envy among Linux users as Google Earth
. In some respects the search engine behemoth is quite OS-agnostic, but the 3D virtual globe remains limited to Windows desktops only. But there is an alternative. NASA's World
Wind project -- like Google Earth
-- is a 3D planetary visualization system that overlays satellite imagery, weather, political, and topological map data. Zoom in and look for your childhood home, fly past your favorite landmarks, study the coastlines for continental drift -- you have all of the same options. The only difference is that World Wind is open source
. Google Earth, you may recall, is a re-branding of Keyhole, Inc.'s Earthviewer product. It relies primarily o
QDevelop 2007-12-26 03:05:00 QDevelop is a development environment entirely dedicated to Qt4, which requires Qt4, gcc under Linux or MinGW under Windows, possibly gdb for program debugging and ctags for code completion.QDevelop runs on Linux, unix, macosx and windows systems and is released under the GPL license.QDevelop is not a Kdevelop like or reduced. It's an independent IDE dedicated to Qt and is totally independent of KDevelop. Less complete, but faster, light and especially multi-platforms. QDevelop and KDevelop have different code sources.Features :Cross Platform: Supports Linux, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X and FreeBSDReading and writing project files (with some small restrictions) A powerful editor with code completion, syntax highligthing, bookmarks, auto-brackets, auto-indentation, auto-save before buil
Qt Framework 2007-12-23 07:25:00 Qt is cross-platform rich client development framework. As cross-platform framework qt can be run on linux, windows and mac too. Qt is the standard framework for high performance, cross-platform application development. it include :An intuitive, easy to use class libraryIntegrated development tools Support for C++ and Java developmentOfficially Trolltech support for C++ and java only, but there is some development to porting Qt to Phyton and Ruby.If we are integrate Qt with an IDE, it will make us easier to develop our application. There some IDE that dedicated for Qt :QDevelopMonkey StudioKDevelopEdyukHiQtEricAnother IDE that you can try (need some effort) are Dev-C++, code block and MVStudio.Actually I am newbie in programming and still learning until now. First time I develop applicati
Ubuntu Linux 2007-12-22 00:03:00 Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux
operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.It is have clean and simple graphic interface at the beginning but you can costuming as you wish.Ubuntu available in desktop and server edition and got full support for canonical corporation.For newbie, it' Read more:Ubuntu
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