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Simply Mepis 8 is Looking Good 
Ron Parish via LXer Linux News on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
As some of you know, Linux is what my computers run on, and Simply Mepis is the particular distribution. I have been using Simply Mepis for a number of years, and would not go backwards into a Windows environment for anything. There is no need to, really, as all my computing needs are met in Linux: safe, secure, virus free, and easy to use. For more on Linux, you can read my post Linux - Is It For
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Financial Crisis Offers Opportunity for Linux, Open Source
Darryl K. Taft via LXer Linux News on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, says technologies such as Linux and open-source software can help enterprises cut costs during tough economic times. Zemlin says users should look to open source and Linux, systems management tools, and virtualization technology to keep budgets in line. In lean times, look for technologies such as Linux and open source to do well. The current
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Tutorial: Four Easy Fun Useful Things You Can Do With Linux
Carla Schroder via LXer Linux News on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
In this ENP classic, learn how to colorize and test your Bash prompt, run your own local timeserver, deliver customized MOTDs that change, and create elegant ASCII art. Carla Schroder shows you how to do all these things the easy way.
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A brief history of computers and free software: where is the money?
Tony Mobily via LXer Linux News on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
The world of computers has changed. Sub-notebooks are becoming immensely popular, mobile phones based on Google’s Android software are about to come out (T-Mobile have just announced their G1 will launch on October 22), and computers are looking increasingly like small devices that fit in our pockets. The end of 2008 might see the dawn of a new revolution in the computer industry and in peopleâ€
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SGI relicenses OpenGL:"A huge gift to the free software community"
Bruce Byfield via LXer Linux News on Sat, 20 Sep. 2008
After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative. Today, however, the FSF has announced that the licenses in question, the SGI Free License B and the GLX P
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Review: Asus Eee PC 1000 Plus Ubuntu: Big Power in a Small Package
Paul Ferrill via LXer Linux News on Sat, 20 Sep. 2008
Paul Ferrill takes a look at the new, more powerful Asus EeePC 1000 from ZaReason, customized with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Do a beefier CPU, more RAM, and goodies like a Webcam, Bluetooth,and a larger solid-state hard disk play well with Ubuntu?
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The Short Life Expectancy of the Virtualized Desktop
Ken Hess via LXer Linux News on Sat, 20 Sep. 2008
You know that traditional desktop computing is a dying technology but is VDI really the answer? Is it the long-term answer? The answer is no.
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Symbian: Linux unfit for mobile phones
Cade Metz via LXer Linux News on Fri, 19 Sep. 2008
Symbian has told the world that as open source operating systems go, Linux is unfit for mobile phones. "There’s been a lot of misleading information over the years...about the fitness of Linux for the mobile space," Jerry Panagrossi, vp of Symbian's North American operations, told industry insiders this morning at the GigaOM:Mobilize conference in San Francisco.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software
Kristin Shoemaker via LXer Linux News on Fri, 19 Sep. 2008
OpenOffice.org is in an unenviable place. Office suites -- word processors, spreadsheets, presentations and the ilk -- are utilitarian, complex bundles of software. They are a necessity of modern life, used daily by individuals and businesses all over the world. It isn't that people take them for granted. People don't consider them much at all. It has been a long time since I've had any feelings w
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Javascript: Pre-version of Mozilla Firefox holds up against Google Chrome
Mathias Huber via LXer Linux News on Fri, 05 Sep. 2008
Google touts its Javascript engine version 8, among other things, as setting new speed records for its Chrome browser. Linux Magazine author Mathias Huber found during a benchmark test that the next Firefox generation can keep up with it.
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Tutorial: Scripting Best Practices
Juliet Kemp via LXer Linux News on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Juliet Kemp uses some Perl examples to demonstrate techniques for keeping all of your scripts, regardless of what language they are written in, understandable and useful. So that when you look at them six months later, you actually understand what you did, and they still work.
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Google plans 'Chrome' browser
Rafe Needleman via LXer Linux News on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Search giant Google has confirmed it will shortly unveil a new Web browser dubbed 'Chrome' and based on code from the Webkit project. After rumors broke out all over the Web about the new software, Google confirmed the plans this morning in a blog post here. Word first surfaced of the plans in a Web comic book introducing Google Chrome, the search giant's long-rumored open source browser project.
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Amarok, the music player that does it all
Andrew Min via LXer Linux News on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
For a time, GNU/Linux music library tools seemed to be, well, non-existent. Sure, XMMS was an awesome media player. But if you wanted to catalog your music, you were out of luck. Apple users had iTunes and were always rubbing it into the free software world’s face. Even Microsoft, the sleeping Redmond giant, had upgraded Windows Media Player to include a library feature. Then, a giant wolf named
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Tomboy - Desktop Note Taking in openSUSE Linux
(unknown author) via LXer Linux News on Sun, 31 Aug. 2008
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. Tomboy is written in C# and utilizes the Mono runtime and Gtk#. Automatic spell-checking is provided by GtkSpell.
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Build an embedded Linux distro from scratch
Peter Seebach via LXer Linux News on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems, the root file system, disk images, and the boot process, all with respect to the decisions you make as you're building the system and creating the distribution.
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10 Total Commander Alternatives for Linux
(unknown author) via LXer Linux News on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
Although we all remember that everything started with legendary Norton Commander, somehow lots of TC users religiously believe that every other, two pane file manager, is a not worthy clone. They all share the same roots, but TC with its rich Plugin library managed to capture the largest user base. In this article I will try to cover the most popular alternatives for both TC and NC. It is not a re
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QuickStart, The Swiss Army Knife For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
Falko Timme via LXer Linux News on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
In this article I will show how to install and use QuickStart on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. QuickStart is like a Swiss army knife, it allows you to do various things on your Ubuntu desktop: creating and restoring backups, running scheduled backups, backing up configuration files, installing some common applications, installing DVD codecs, deleting unnecessary files, etc.
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Powerful graphical tools for Ubuntu Linux
Hamish Taylor via LXer Linux News on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
If you want to know how much disk space you have on a Windows machine, what do you do? There's a number of different ways of getting that information, but the way that I usually use is to go to Windows Explorer and right click on the drive letter and select Properties. This opens up a window which looks at the drive and tells me how many folders and items there are, how big it is and how much spac
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gOS 3 Gadgets (beta) targets Linux beginners and Google Gadgets lovers
Jeremy LaCroix via LXer Linux News on Sat, 16 Aug. 2008
I first heard of gOS when it was chosen to power the $199 Wal-Mart gPC. The third iteration of the OS, gOS 3.0 "Gadgets" Beta, was released last week. It's a great Web-focused desktop, but it doesn't offer much to experienced or current Ubuntu users. I downloaded the ISO image of gOS 3.0, burned it to a CD, and installed it on one of my test systems. I used a basic PC with a 1.7GHz AMD Duron proce
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10 Essential Linux Applications for Daily Use
Craciun Dan via LXer Linux News on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Instead of an introduction, I'll answer the question 'Why did you left out wonderful applications like Scribus, Inkscape, Cinelerra, Wine, QCAD etc?'. Well, because the article is about applications which I consider essential for daily use. Of course, some work with those every day, but not the majority. Secondly, if you ask why Amarok and not Banshee, or why KTorrent and not Deluge, well that's a
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