Free Software Linux

Perhaps Mozilla is finally seeing the light. There is a story circulating around that Mozilla will be providing better tools to deploy and manage Firefox within the enterprise. According to a PC World article that sources Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla Corp:

Through the program, which will start sometime soon after Firefox 3.5 is released at the end of June, companies can use a Web application provided by Mozilla to specify certain customizations for the browser -- such as bookmarks to certain sites or corporate intranets or portals, he said.

Licensing your work can be the most daunting task in the whole process of creation. In this highly connected world, your work matters, and what matters more is how you decide how your work is used. People could simply use your work without your permission. Licensing the work is thus very important. This post will be about licensing software (particularly). Although it applies to any other kind of work as well, but I’d concentrate on the software and hardware part, adhering to the topic of this blog.

Percona has been building and contributing to open-source software since the company was founded, and individually we’ve been doing the same thing for many years. We think it’s a huge value for our customers and the community.

The return of tough economic times puts the open source alternative again front and center, this time with focus on databases and higher-level software applications.

If you'll be without your personal assistant when webapp Sandy closes its doors, you may not have to wait long for a replacement: A group of developers are working to build a free, open-source Sandy, and they're hoping to resurrect as much of Sandy as they can from the startup graveyard.

SeoQuake is probably one of the most useful Firefox plugins which helps webmasters to check various SEO parameters including google pagerank, number of indexed pages on various search engines, internal and external links on a given page, number of backlinks...

If you think you can install a piece of software on the web in 2008 and run it forever without upgrading, I’m sorry to say that your website will get hacked

Do version numbers play a role in software decisions, or have product version numbers lost all credibility and meaning? Would the community feel comfortable buying version '6.3' software (and paying tens of thousands of dollars for it) knowing that it was the first release of the product?

Open Source indeed has better future than closed source. Why? Well, I’ll describe in this post about both Open Source software and hardware. Before I say one word more, I’d say that this article is not and is of course not meant to be against proprietary programs/hardwares and/or their companies, but this is definitely and is only in favor of Open Source (In fact my whole blog is about that).

I’ll describe this post with examples for both Open Source softwares and hardwares. In case of softwares, the merits are well known:

In a move the company is billing as its first foray into the hardware business, Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it will begin selling server computers that come with its database software pre-installed.

Rudder is the only product that looks forward and determines how much you can spend today and still pay all your bills, no more guesswork needed to answer that critical question. It predicts your cashflow and figures out what's left.

It seems that Lehman was involved in selling some of its technology, specifically around a high-speed trading platform for equities called Baikal, to a number of investment banks and brokers.

What’s behind Google’s release of its new Chrome browser? While the software boasts some impressive technology, does Google seriously mean to reopen the browser wars, even against its open-source partner Mozilla?

Google Chrome is big news since yesterday and there's a lot of great analysis already (browser wars, tech highlights and questions). So here's some analysis and speculation, especially from the perspective of software developers.

First, Google's new WebKit-based browser is causing software QA folks to sigh and add yet another browser to their testing, but because WebKit is the rendering engine underneath Safari and Android, it's actually a leg up for Apple.

The best way to write or compose something important using a computer is to do it without any distraction. But how is it possible to concentrate if your email notification keeps on popping, your Twitter updates are flashing, and you are always tempted to open your RSS reader? What’s my solution? I use a distraction free writer. -- A full-screen writing environment minus the desktop clutter. No distractions, no buttons, menus, and formatting; Just me and my text.

If you want to experience writing without distractions while in Linux, I can recommend these two full-screen text editors.

1. PyRoom
PyRoom is written in Python + GTK, and it's Free and Open Source software. Its basic features include: