An infringement lawsuit was just filed against Red Hat and Novell. As far as I know, this is the first ever infringement lawsuit invloving Linux. This is happening just after Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) blamed FOSS community for violation of IP laws. Read the full story here.
Filed under: General | Tagged: FOSS, IP, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source, patent, Red Hat | Leave a Comment »
GnuCash is a free and open source package for small business and personal financial accounting. It is developed by a team of developers and is distributed under GNU GPL license. GnuCash is available for several platforms including GNU/Linux, Windows, Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X. GnuCash allows tracking the income, expenses, stocks, and bank accounts. [...]
Filed under: Open Sourcce | Tagged: Accounting, Finance, Linux, Open Source, Small Business, Windows | Leave a Comment »
The portable document format abbreviated as “pdf” is the dominant format being very widely used to digitalize the documents. In Windows, Adobe Acrobat Reader can be used to view the pdf files and in Linux applications like Xpdf and a couple of other applications are available for that purpose. But what about editing the pdf [...]
Filed under: General | Tagged: Edit, Linux, pdf, PDFEdit | 8 Comments »
The latest version of Mandriva linux called Mnadriva Linux 2008 is just released. The new version is available both as combined LiveCD/installation CDÂ and traditional installation DVD. The newest version uses Linux kernel 2.6.22.9. The other important updates are improved hardware detection and integration of new version of default packages. Some of the default packages used [...]
Filed under: Linux | Tagged: Linux, mandriva, New Release | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever wanted to Login as “root” in Ubuntu and have gotten the message that the “root” is not allowed to login? Actually, that is because loggin as “root” in Ubuntu is neither recommended nor necessary. Doing so can leave your computer more intrusion-prone and, besides that, it could be that you can mess [...]
Filed under: Linux, Ubuntu | Tagged: Linux, Ubuntu | 14 Comments »
VirtualBox (VB) is an Open Source project for virtual machine simulation of x86 computers. By VB you can make one or several virtual computers and run them just as if they were real computers. The package is totally free and binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. The Source codes are also available [...]
Filed under: General, Linux | Tagged: Linux, Virtual System, VirtualBox, Windows | 4 Comments »
The latest version of Skype for Linux is just released. You can download it from here. Skype for Linux is available for a number of distros including Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Debian Etch, Mepis, and Xandros. I downloaded and installed the version for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (ver 7.04). Although Gaim (a multiple platform messenger) is available [...]
Filed under: Linux | Tagged: Linux, Skype, Software | Leave a Comment »
I was just reading a Digg story about Vixta (a new Fedora-based distro designed to be eye-candy and user-friendly). In feel and look, it is supposed to be much like Vista. I am going to write down my experience with this new distro Since I am already running out of space in my laptop, I [...]
Filed under: Linux | Tagged: Linux, Vista, Vixta | 3 Comments »
