When it comes to the world of graphics, Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator and DTP applications such as Quark Xpress and InDesign, stand head and shoulders above the rest. They are the de-facto standards for graphics professionals. But they’re not open source applications, even if a little Wine hacking gets some of them running on Linux. [...]
Zend debuts PHP Middleware stack: Already massively popular for web programming, PHP is now getting its own stack. The new Zend Server packages PHP for Web application deployment and code acceleration, problem diagnostics, monitoring, updates and even a Web server.
Sun releases VirtualBox 2.2.0: Sun Microsystems today announced the release of its VirtualBox 2.2.0 [...]
Twenty-five year old Israeli designer Amitay Tweeto walks off with first prize in the Linux Foundation’s “We’re Linux” competition with his “What does it mean to be free?” video. The competition, to create a one minute video promoting Linux, attracted more than 90 entries from around the world since its launch in December.
Tweeto’s entry, [...]
The Ubuntu team this morning announced the release of a beta edition of its Netbook Remix 9.04 operating system. Netbook Remix has a customised interface designed to be easier to use on the smaller screens of netbook devices. Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 is the first release to be “fully integrated into the Ubuntu family, fully [...]
With Gnome 2.26 safely out the door the Gnome development team is now planning for Gnome 3.0, a release it expects to make in March next year. Responding to growing criticism that the Gnome project lacks vision the team says that the 3.0 milestone release will have to have “big user-visible changes”.
“If you look [...]
Portable Ubuntu runs on Windows: Forced, by circumstance or your boss, to run Windows but missing Linux? Then you might want to take a look at Portable Ubuntu for Windows which runs the entire Ubuntu operating system as a Windows application. Portable Ubuntu can be run from a flash drive, hence the name, and runs [...]
The Mandriva development team this morning made available the second release candidate for its Linux 2009 Spring release. Codenamed Estephe, RC2 includes a number of desktop enhancements including KDE 4.2.2, Gnome 2.26. kernel 2.6.29 and X.org server 1.6. While RC1 shipped with the initial phase of Speedboot, a project to speed up the booting process, [...]
Japanese Manga comics are hugely popular in that country and cover just about every topic imaginable from sport, to romance, to business, to games. Now there is a Ubuntu Manga comic - called Ubunchu - which has been translated from the original Japanese into English and focuses on three students getting into Ubuntu in their [...]
Question of the week: Some of us are lucky. We get to use Linux every day as our primary - or even our only - operating system. But many users are forced - or even choose - to use a different operating system throughout their work day and then switch to Linux once they have [...]
Southern African IT distributor Workgroup is anticipating growth in the South African Linux thin client market and says that Dell’s OptiPlex FX160 devices will be available locally pre-installed with Suse Linux Enterprise Thin Client. Sally Berimbau, Novell product manager at Workgroup, says the distributor is anticipating “that the Linux thin client market will grow to [...]
