Archive for April 2007

AdesClrPicker v2.0 in Linux

In my previous post I have reviewed AdesClrPicker in Windows, and now I’m doing a review in Linux. I will be testing it under Ubuntu 7.04 – the Feisty Fawn.
Before I begin, I need to note that AdesClrPicker is not developed to run on Linux, it’s a Windows application. So if you encounter any kind [...]

I am a spammer!

Oh my! My name is Bridgette Hutchins!
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See how you can make money on Open Source!

Who said you can’t make money by supporting free community-based Linux distributions?
HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat.
HP announced in August 2005 it would be offering support services for Debian, which has [...]

Microsoft’s $3 initiative vs Open Source

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, in a recent IRC interview was asked about the MS $3 initiative. Here’s what he said:
clever move. http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_april24_2007. he gets it. free software is a far better platform for education than the $3 offer.

far more applications, means you can teach many more things with technology, not just word [...]

Linux 2.6.21 Kernel out!

If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky enough to hit what looks like a previously unknown hardware errata in one [...]