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Around 2006, we purchased some intel compilers and libraries for our server at Oregon State University. We changed our server from Suse to Ubuntu, and we forgot to transfer the compiler tarballs. The following two libraries are not ...

Yesterday, we took our partnership a stage further for this worthwhile cause by building and launching a new custom Firefox browser for CyberMentors. The new browser offers: • Chatting with victims of bullying and other CyberMentors ...

Cisco announces new Linux-powered router on Coolest Gadgets.

In the last decade, the 10s, Open Source development has undergone yet another revolution. The bazaar has truly come of age and the last Open Source cathedrals are torn down - there are no more 'committers'. Looking back, it's easy to ...

eldavojohn writes “Groklaw brings us news of Microsoft holding the smoking gun in regards to the death of Linux on netbooks. You see, the question of Linux on netbooks in Taiwan was put forth to the Taiwan Trade Authority director, ...

on a Fedora 11 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. ...

I came across Linux Action Show's latest show and it happened to be a terribly emotional rant. This time, it seemed way over the top with severe accusations about Fedora and I wrote up a response to them and the discussion that followed ...

Did you know there was an Ubuntu Cyclists Team? We are made up from a few hipsters, you know those silly kids who roll up their pant legs, wear funny colored shoes, and those silly cycling caps, similar to the one I am wearing in my ...

It doesn't really matter if we are talking about (GNOME vs KDE) or (AfterStep vs E) or my first one.. tvtwm versus mwm. It seems to get the same arguments that the truck guys will go over engine builders or my uncles' favourite "Chevy ...

BoxMaker is a three dimensional virtual packaging design tool. It transforms your image artwork into a 3D box in real time using the OpenGL library.

ITProPortalFirefox 3.5 gears up for a possible Tuesday public releaseBetaNewsNo longer a beta, users will get the first opportunity to see a completely stable version of Firefox's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, whose latest new .

In this article, we cover the concepts of why you lay out your site in a particular way, as well as beginning to help you understand all the pieces involved in this process. All of these pieces - Master Pages, Themes, CSS, Skins, Sitemaps, and Menus-combine together to make your site work. A solid understanding of these pieces will help you as you put together all the individual components. However, more importantly, it will aid you as you continue to expand your site, giving you the ability to quickly update it with as little work as possible. Complete Story

Top 20 Linux Server Performance Monitoring Tools To Solve Server Bottlenecks Issues related to CPU, Memory, Disk, and networking subsystems.

I am not sure what partition size I should set windows Vista. Linux is main os, therefore it should take up most of the partition. I just need windows Vista just in case something goes wrong with linux. I have 4 gb of ram if that helps. ...

Kathryn Ryan of Radio NZ interviewed Don Christie, president of the NZ Open Source Society and Kevin Ackhurst, managing director of Microsoft NZ on Microsoft's failure to renew their multi-million dollar contract with the NZ government.  The interviews and Kathryn's questions are intense and very interesting as Don Christie defends the government's choice to break out of a reliance on Microsoft's products, and Kevin Ackhurst tries to defend Microsoft's position, touting it as a success.

The 10th edition of the Free Software International Forum (FISL), the biggest event of free software in Latin America and maybe one of the biggest in the world, starts today in Porto Alegre, Brazil. North by South has been invited to speak at the mega-conference, and we will host a panel about our unique business model, on Saturday, 06/27. We will also be hanging out with the developers of our network and meeting people we work with online everyday and enjoying this very special edition of FISL.

Mozilla Firefox Portable 3.5 RC3: You can transfer and use of personal data and saved passwords, saved favorite pages and all extensions, which they deem necessary - Free Software Download and Review @Esoft.

As mentioned before on this news site (US firewall exposed by bloggers from countries like Cuba or Syria), the embargo laws in the United States have a direct impact on information technology development in the affected countries. Now, a blog from Cuba has reported that Google Wave is blocked for Cuban internet users.

Communtu wants to give new installers and Windows converts an easier time with Ubuntu. They will present a webpage with a list of suggested programs to install as a metapackage, including multimedia and proprietary software, ...

Just installed Ubuntu and can't see videos? This is a quick tutorial to help you install multimedia codecs and non-open source components, such as flash player and more. Bonus CONTEST with PRIZES is as follows: If you had the source ...