I have an awesome story that I would like to share, it involves Ampache, Ubuntu, Chelsea School, and the use of FOSS in education. More here
The Ampache virtual appliances available at 9while9.com were assembled and configured by students at Chelsea School in suburban Maryland who are taking an advanced technology sequence of courses called Information [...]
With the adoption of netbooks quickly becoming a global phenomenon for business, IBM, Canonical and Simmtronics today announced that the Simmtronics netbook, the Simmbook, is available to emerging markets at a low price of $190 USD. More here
Problems with the licensing of the faac library could lead to it having to be removed from Ubuntu’s distribution or moved to the “restricted” repositories where license encumbered codecs are kept More here
Libfaac is used to encode audio into the AAC format, which is used alongside a range of video formats to provide a soundtrack. [...]
Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, is out with a new study this week looking at how users view and use their server platform. More here
The Ubuntu Server study comes at an opportune time as the next major release of Ubuntu codenamed the Lucid Lynx is scheduled for release at [...]
If you’re a GNOME Do user, you will have probably heard of Docky when it was introduced as a theme in Do 0.8. Docky has split from Do into a separate project and has become a full featured dock.
Snow Leopard converted to base-10 last year, provoking digerati outrage. Now Ubuntu 10.04, “Lucid Lynx” a Linux distro, is following. And the CPU-centric traditionalists are cranky. Get over it: for 200 years kilo has meant 1,000 and it’s time for computer nerds to join the rest of the human race. More here
Drive vendors have always [...]
With Apple’s iPad tablet computer ramping up to make an impact, it’s drawing a lot of headlines, but there is also significant action on the Linux- and Android-based tablet front. More here
Since Mark Shuttleworth said that moving the Metacity window buttons to the left “opens up the space on the right nicely”, lots of button ideas came out. A recent idea by Izo makes a lot more sense than all the previous ideas. More here
Izo is the same guy who came with the amazing idea [...]
There are some things that are less about usefulness, and more about the cool factor. One such thing is setting up your own torrent tracker. There are plenty of legitimate use cases, but for most people, a personal tracker would be overkill. If, however, you need to distribute large files without wasting bandwidth, or [...]
How to Create Your Own Torrent Tracker with RivetTracker originally published on Make Tech Easier (RSS)
But apart from the eye candy, in a more subtle way, a number of new applications are also in the pipeline. Let’s explore these new comers. More here
The buzz word is social, and you can’t have a distro without a microblogging client these days. The world is more twitterish and facebookish than ever before and [...]
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