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...
View ArticleDavid 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...
View ArticleJustin 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....
View ArticleMahyuddin 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...
View ArticlePaul 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...
View ArticleMartin 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...
View ArticleMohamad 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...
View ArticleStéphane 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....
View ArticleFabián 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...
View ArticleRaphaël 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...
View ArticleValorie 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...
View ArticleAlan 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...
View ArticleEdubuntu: 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...
View ArticleUbuntu 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePaolo 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...
View ArticleChase 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...
View ArticleFabien 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...
View ArticleRalph 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...
View ArticleMartin 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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