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Alan Bell: OpenERP vs Lotus Domino

I spent last week out in Belgium, the home of fine chocolates, waffles and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning applications. I was lucky enough to sample all three as I was on a training course in...

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David Tomaschik: Major Sites that a “tiered” Internet Would Have Killed

Again and again, we hear about the idea of a "tiered" Internet, containing 1st and 2nd class citizens.  In some variants, entire sites would be cut off by ISPs.  Let's take a look at sites that...

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Justin Dugger: SQLite + SchemaSpy

A little over a year ago, I shared a neat technique to generate DB diagrams for databases, with a focus on SQLite. At the time, SchemaSpy had much better output but didn't have a good SQLite driver....

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Mahyuddin Susanto: I’m waiting for squeeze, did you waiting too?

With love, I’m waiting new Debian released called squeeze. According to Debian news, Debian will be released the weekend of the 5th-6th of February. So i must preparing to upgrade my server to Debian...

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Paul Hummer: Ubuntu One In Your Living Room

A few months ago, I acquired a PC that has served me well as in my living room. It has Boxee on it, which is a really neat little media center application. Having it as a resource has allowed us to get...

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Martin Pitt: Na zdraví PyGI!

Last week I was in Prague to attend the GNOME/Python 2011 Hackfest for gobject-introspection, to which Tomeu Vizoso kindly invited me after I started working with PyGI some months ago. It happened at a...

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Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: How To Install CW Player On Ubuntu Linux

Its been a long time since my last post,Hello again, wish you all a happy new year, 2011.Today i would like to share how to install cwplayer on your Ubuntu Linux machine.as far as i know, CWPlayer is a...

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Stéphane Graber: Help translate pastebinit

pastebinit is one of my pet projects. It’s a command line pastebin client that let you easily send any command output or file to a pastebin. It’s packaged and available in quite a few distributions....

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Fabián Rodríguez: Une belle heure Ubuntu à Outremont vendredi dernier!

Vendredi dernier, comme tous les vendredis, je suis allé au Bistro Araucaria pour l’Heure Ubuntu. Je m’y rends en bicyclette et tant qu’à rester chez moi les vendredi midi je viens au bistro et si des...

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Raphaël Hertzog: Debian is eating its own dog food more than ever

In its “Fast distributions and slow servers” article, Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier explains the difficulties that Fedora has to use its own distribution on their infrastructure and echoes some questions...

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Valorie Zimmerman: Amarok Insider 16, brought to you by Google Code-in Students!

The latest Amarok Insider, just published at http://amarok.kde.org, features the writing of seven Google Code-In students, writing nine different articles, ranging from an interview with developer Bart...

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Alan Bell: Edubuntu at BETT 2011

Just before my trip to Belgium I was asked to say a few words about the Edubuntu project at the BETT 2011 educational technology show as part of a larger presentation on Open Source software for...

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Edubuntu: Edubuntu on YouTube

Edubuntu on YouTube Last year Edubuntu jumped on the bandwagon and signed up for a channel on YouTube. We found some Edubuntu related videos and added them as favourites. Favourite videos appears in...

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Ubuntu Classroom: User Days January 29-30 Schedule

On the weekend of January 29-30th we will be hosting our 3rd Ubuntu User Days event in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions). All times in the timetable are in...

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The Fridge: User Days January 29-30 Schedule

On the weekend of January 29-30th we will be hosting our 3rd Ubuntu User Days event in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions).All times in the timetable are in...

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Paolo Sammicheli: Ubuntu@Fermo

  Last weekend we hold a conference in the nice town of Fermo, called Ubuntu@Fermo. Andrea Colangelo organized everything in every little detail and the weekend was just perfect. The event location was...

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Chase Douglas: Multitouch Input through X update

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any updates here, but I’ve been quite busy working with others on my team and elsewhere to bring multitouch to the desktop. We are currently developing the XInput...

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Fabien Tassin: Chromium translations explained: part 2

In the first part of this series of posts about the Chromium translations, I covered Grit, the format of translations used by upstream for Chromium (and Google Chrome, ChromeOS..). In another post, I...

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Ralph Janke: Why is Ubuntu Using Google Maps and not OpenStreetMaps?

For using online maps, users have a variety of choices. In the spirit of FLOSS, openness and user rights, OpenStreetmap is clearly the best solution. However, Ubuntu is still using Google maps with all...

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Martin Owens: BBC to shutter H2G2

The BBC has announced massive cuts to it’s online department, with lots of community websites getting the axe. One of the sites facing the chop is the venerable Douglas Adams site H2G2 (Hitch Hikers...

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