| Jul 23 | Distribution Release: Ulteo Applications System
Gaël Duval announced the availability of Ulteo Application System, code name "Sirius" Stable: "The Ulteo Application System is a FREE installable version of Ulteo, that ships with hundreds applications and innovative features that include: Global Ulteo authentication; Automatic data backup/synchro.. | | Jul 23 | Distribution Release: IPCop 1.4.20
A new version of IPCop, a user-friendly firewall distribution geared towards home and SOHO users, was released: "Update is split into two parts because of a kernel update to accommodate free space limitation. 1.4.19 contains some packages updates, most notably a dnsmasq update to be immune on recen.. | | Jul 22 | Distribution Release: BLAG Linux And GNU 90001
Jeff Moe announced a bug fix release of BLAG Linux And GNU labeled as 90001, a single-CD desktop distribution based on Fedora: "It comes on a single CD (684 megs), is easily installed, and user friendly. This release follows quickly on the heels of BLAG 90000, as there.... | | Jul 22 | Distribution Release: Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.04.1
Ubuntu Muslim Edition (UbuntuME) 8.04.1, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring Islamic software, a Quran study tool and a web content filtering utility, was released, in the form of not just an update but a full new DVD with tons of software: "The Ubuntu Muslim Edition team is proud to.... | | Jul 22 | Distribution Release: NimbleX 2008
Bogdan Radulescu announced the availability of the final version of NimbleX 2008, a Slackware-based mini distribution: "This version gets significant cleanups since NimbleX 2008RC, Bluetooth finally works OK, some improvements to the USB installer, significant changes on how NimbleX boots from remo.. | | Jul 22 | Distribution Release: xPUD 0.7
Following version 0.6 just four days ago, a new version of xPUD was released today, boasting "same features, 20% smaller": "xPUD is a small and fast booting LiveUSB, usually boots into X within 15-seconds, and starts an easy-to-use UI as soon as possible. Being a Ubuntu derivative with.... | | Jul 22 | Development Release: Magic Linux 2.1 RC1
After almost two and a half years' development, a release candidate of Magic Linux, a community distribution from China, is now ready for download and test. Updates since Beta2 include: numerous upgraded packages like kernel, jre, firefox, k3b, and lrcShow-II; amended packages of magic-system-confi.. | | Jul 22 | BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 2.0
Matthew Dillon announced the availability of DragonFly BSD 2.0: "2.0 is our eighth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches." Changes in this release include: the HAMMER filesystem featuring crash recovery on-mount (without fsck) and queueless incr.. | | Jul 21 | DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 262
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Guest Review: Sabayon Linux 3.5News: Mandriva's netbook OS, Flaw in Package Management, Ubuntu's Community QA, Linus InterviewReleased last week: CentOS 5.2 Live CD, BeleniX 0.7.1, BLAG Linux And GNU 90000Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1, Ubuntu 8.10.. | | Jul 19 | Distribution Release: BeleniX 0.7.1
The first update to the 0.7 release of BeleniX, a live CD based on OpenSolaris, is now available: "This update brings in the latest development OpenSolaris build 93 and updates to KDE 3.5.9 among other changes, bugfixes. Since this release also includes the latest Caiman installer, upgrades from..... |
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| Apr 16 | Bruce Perens tells how he got involved with Linux and Free Software (v..
You've probably seen quotes from long-time Linux and Free Software advocate Bruce Perens , and you may have even have seen his picture a few times. Now, in this exclusive Linux.com video, you have a chance to "meet" him in a little more personal way, and to learn how Bruce got interested in Linux a.. | | Apr 16 | What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
So you just bought an external hard drive for backups. Now, with what filesystem should you format it? Ext2? FAT32? No matter which one you choose, there are trade-offs to consider. | | Apr 16 | Mounting archives with FUSE and archivemount
The archivemount FUSE filesystem lets you mount a possibly compressed tarball as a filesystem. Because FUSE exposes its filesystems through the Linux kernel, you can use any application to load and save files directly into such mounted archives. This lets you use your favourite text editor, image v.. | | Apr 16 | A GNOME-based Desktop on Demand
Desktop on Demand (DOD) is the latest contender to give users a full-fledged remote desktop instead of Web-based applications to help users to stay productive when they are on the move. Similar to Ulteo (which we reviewed not long ago), DOD gives you a full-blown remote Linux-based desktop -- but t.. | | Apr 15 | Meet IT industry analyst Dan Kusnetzky (video)
Dan Kusnetzky is one of the people you see quoted all over the place, especially about GNU/Linux and its effect on the computing world. But not many people (as a percentage of the world's total population) have had a chance to sit down with Dan and learn who he is in any kind of personal sense, so .. | | Apr 15 | The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match
Apple's recently released a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone , but if you were hoping to port or develop original open source software with it, the news isn't good. Code signing and nondisclosure conditions make free software a no-go. | | Apr 15 | Bringing chat to the browser with JWChat
JWChat is a Jabber instant messaging client that is written using only HTML and JavaScript. This means that you need not install a Jabber instant messaging client in order to use Jabber, assuming you already have a Web browser installed. A Jabber client that runs in a Web browser could be just the .. | | Apr 15 | Run Windows andLinux without virtualization
Linux does everything that many users want it to, but some people have tasks that require Windows applications. You can dual-boot both operating systems, or run Windows in a virtualized environment on Linux. Alas, virtualization makes the guest OS almost useless for processor- and RAM-intensive tas.. | | Apr 14 | Comic strip aims for a fun way to educate new Linux users
Jeremiah Gray wants to provide an interesting way to learn about Linux, so he's created a new comic strip, called Hackett and Bankwell , about the open source operating system. The strip will be published as a series of comic books that Gray hopes will appeal to new Linux users, but he says it is ".. | | Apr 14 | Software animation with Pencil
Attention computer animators -- if you've ever felt limited by working in three dimensions with tools like Blender, check out Pencil , an open source, cross-platform animation app that lets you create in glorious 2-D. Pencil mimics hand-drawn animation techniques, but it's easy to use and produces .. |
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