Don't compare GNU/Linux with Windows or MacOS
freesoftwaremagazine.com — They are not in the same game (Submitted by motang) More...
Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop
freesoftwaremagazine.com — First Asus, then Dell, then MSI, Elonex, the Cloud and all their clones. Now Acer has entered the fray and it is all, at least initially, good news. It looks like they’ve all found a bit of Dutch courage and started to turn on the schoolyard bully from Redmond. Of what do I speak? Ultra lightweight portable laptops computers. (Submitted by motang) More...
Home automation in GNU/Linux
freesoftwaremagazine.com — Home Automation is anything that your home does for you automatically to make living there more enjoyable or productive. It covers many areas, including remote and timed control of lights and electrical home appliances, distributed media services, and communication. Over the last 10 years, many hardware manufacturers have presented their own propri (Submitted by tengisu) More...
The 2008 Google Summer of Code: 21 Projects I'm Excited Abou
freesoftwaremagazine.com — The annual Google Summer of Code is upon us again. For the uninformed, that’s when Google pays hundreds of students and hundreds of mentors to work on free software projects, ranging from AbiSource to Zumastor. This is where great projects like the GDebiKDE installer were created. (Submitted by andrewmin) More...
Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system
freesoftwaremagazine.com — GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your hard drive so badly that you need to format it to get rid of GNU/Linux? The solution is to use virtualization technology. A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer... (Submitted by chieffy) More...
Desktop search tools for GNU/Linux: the competition hots up
freesoftwaremagazine.com — In Part One and Part Two of this blog, I looked at Beagle and its alternative interfaces (Peagle, Yabi and Peagle). In this last part, I want to take a look at three other search engines as viable replacements for Beagle: Tracker, Recoll, Strigi, and Deskbar, an applet written in Python, which has some very handy scripts written for it. (Submitted by ace77) More...
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