Archive for the 'linux' Category

Packages Available for KDE Platform, Plasma and Applications 4.5.1

September 3rd, 2010 by admin


Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 are available. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.04 LTS can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. To update, use the Software Repository Guide to add the…

Open health in Guatemala

September 3rd, 2010 by admin


The FreeMED Software Foundation has been involved with a medical clinic and teaching project in Guatemala for some time. The project, hosted by Pop-Wuj, a non-profit Spanish language school in Xela (Quetzeltenango), Guatemala, hosts a medical clinic for the poor in the city and surrounding pueblos.

openSUSE Connect Beta

September 3rd, 2010 by admin


As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘HackMeck‘ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become the central user database for the openSUSE project. Sounds bland, don”t it? But you know the Boosters, everything we do comes with a grain [...]

Tablet Skirmish Heats Up With Toshiba Entry

September 3rd, 2010 by admin


Toshiba has announced its own entrant into the tablet market with the Folio 100, which will run on the Android 2.2 operating system. Sporting a screen just over 10 inches, the device will be larger than other early competitors to Apple’s iPad tablet computer, such as the Dell Streak. The Folio will debut in late [...]

Tutorial: Best Practices with sudo on Linux

September 2nd, 2010 by admin


Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.

Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released

September 2nd, 2010 by admin


Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages…

Sony’s Shocking ‘Other OS’ Win and Suspect Distro Popularity Trends

September 2nd, 2010 by admin


You can’t win them all, as the saying goes, and that apparently includes Linux fans. To wit: Despite the best hopes of many of us in the community, the man suing Sony over the removal of the “other OS” feature from its PS3 has apparently lost his case. The bad news is that the man [...]

Unigine Announces Its OilRush Game For Linux

September 1st, 2010 by admin


Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,…

GitHub launches "Pull Requests 2.0"

September 1st, 2010 by admin


New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service…

2 Smart Backup Apps Show You the Way to Go Home

September 1st, 2010 by admin


In my dumber days when I ran Microsoft Windows, I was more concerned with backup programs. After I moved into the Linux desktop, I became much less paranoid about system failures. The Linux environment just never crashed. That does not mean that I never make backup copies of my critical data files. It’s just that [...]