Considering a color laser printer? Don't buy before you check out Oki's LED-based alternative, which offers plenty of paper-handling flexibility and produces genuinely great-looking business documents.
<b>Pourquoi pas:</b> "A few days before the release of the new Ubuntu, here's a guided tour through the Ubuntu family album with some annotations telling my story with the different versions."
<b>openSUSE Lizards:</b> "I am very happy to announce the new stable version 0.40 of the KDE office software Kraft. After eleven month of porting work, Kraft 0.40 is the first version which is based on the KDE 4 software platform."
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox:"
<b>LinuxInsider:</b> "Ubuntu's latest Lucid Lynx upgrade gave the distro a needed facelift and endowed it with a speed boost as well. Users may find the new music store attractive, and social network butterflies can pipe friends' updates directly into the OS."
New technology from Maven backers Sonatype is designed to make open source Java build management technology more consumable to Eclipse and enterprise users.
<b>Enterprise Mobile Today:</b> "MeeGo combines elements of Intel's Moblin Linux with Nokia's Maemo Linux effort into a new mobile operating system that can be used for netbooks, handheld devices and other mobile applications. The initial MeeGo 1.0 release is only available for netbooks, with a MeeGoo handset version planned for a June release."
Microsoft releases two 'critical' patches for Windows and Office in May's Patch Tuesday drop, making things a little easier for IT administrators compared to last month.
HeidiSQL is a free GUI client for MySQL, favored by many Web developers and database administrators of small to medium-sized businesses to manage persistent storage of data. This article will familiarize you with HeidiSQL’s Query editor by using it to write a query that will join four tables together to perform searches against a help library.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "The coolest thing about mobile Linux is that hey, it's basically Linux. Developers used to Linux will find themselves at home with mobile Linux (especially if targeting x86). And, familiar Linux apps can probably run fine on a mobile Linux system, too."
As cyber criminals grow ever more sophisticated and organized, law enforcement agencies have had to step up their game to keep pace. One of the top men at the FBI shares what the bureau is doing to combat cyber crime.
No matter how the war over the Ubuntu buttons ends, it highlights the tension between democracy and meritocracy within Ubuntu and the greater FOSS community.
<b>Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris:</b> "Finally Mark Johnson submitted to xen-devel mailing list patch for ZFS 24 support at Xen 4.0. Patch mentioned bellow was successfully tested..."
<b>Developer.com: </b>"Like many technologies, Git's shallow learning curve encourages adoption, yet it offers so many features and options that it can easily overwhelm beginners."
Magnolia CMS, the open-source CMS written in Java, provides easy-to-use graphical tools and a large library of standard templates. Learn how to get Magnolia up and running.
Google doesn't recognize or index audio files, but that doesn't mean your small business SEO strategy has to take a hit. Andrew Lock offers an easy, affordable solution.
<b>ZDNet:</b> "As I noted in my post over on Between the Lines (”Why doesn’t IBM just buy Novell already?”), I’ve been testing OpenSUSE’s Linux for Education Project and Ubuntu 10.04 server beta 1."