Report: Ohio LinuxFest Proves Real FOSS Diversity

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:40:03 +0000

The 2010 Ohio LinuxFest organizers demonstrate that finding more women speakers and presenters isn’t all that hard, and that real diversity in FOSS is more than just a word.

Packages Available for KDE Platform, Plasma and Applications 4.5.1

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:20:02 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:03 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:40:02 +0000

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 of spice and Connect is no different. The spice here are a lot of nifty social network features like user profiles, friending, groups, an event calendar and possibly more. Thats possible because on top of the user database we use a Free Software social network framework called Elgg. Elgg will help us to go a step further in one of the most important areas of the openSUSE project: Connecting our community. We do a very good job connecting code at the moment but there is no central place for openSUSE users to mingle, form relationships and…

Tablet Skirmish Heats Up With Toshiba Entry

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000

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 October in Europe as a standalone device with WiFi capability. Depending on individual market conditions in European countries, said Toshiba, it will retail for prices that cluster around $500, give or take.

Tutorial: Automating your Android Phone with SL4A

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:20:03 +0000

Back in Part 1 we learned how flexible and script-able Android is, and installed the SL4A scripting layer. Today Paul Ferrill teaches more about how to write custom Android scripts.

Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:20:03 +0000

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

Tutorial: Best Practices with sudo on Linux

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:20:03 +0000

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.

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

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000

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 won’t get the money he had requested to compensate for an upgrade to his newly crippled PS3; the good news is that he reportedly wasn’t forced to pay Sony’s legal bill to boot. Linux bloggers were none too pleased with the news.

Tutorial: Best Practices with sudo on Linux

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:00:03 +0000

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.