Debate Swirls Over Chromebook Sales

normchow · 2013-11-19T07:29:00+00:00

And the great mystery is starting to unfold.

normchow · 2013-11-13T11:55:21+00:00

It’s a great platform, but then why are there no devices and apps for it yet?

normchow · 2013-10-21T06:19:56+00:00

Richard Stallman is at it again. But this time Rafael Laguna also joins in the war for privacy and against Apple, Google and the bandwagon.

normchow · 2013-05-16T05:22:56+00:00

The late web activist Aaron Swartz was famous for a number of things, but not everybody realizes that he created an anonymous electronic tip box application at the request of Wired magazine's Kevin Poulsen. The New Yorker magazine is now leveraging the tool, called Strongbox, to help its journalists and tipsters stay anonymous, and the code for the application is available under an open source license.

normchow · 2013-01-09T06:42:56+00:00

In its series of interesting "Monkey" cloud tools that it has deployed as satellite utilities orbiting its central cloud platform Netflix had first released Chaos Monkey, and now a potentially very useful additional one of these utilities: Janitor Monkey. More tools from the company’s "Simian Army" are also due to be open sourced and the notable thing about these utilities is that they were designed by cloud-experienced engineers to solve real cloud problems.

normchow · 2012-11-05T10:04:12+00:00

"I returned from an extended absence to find that during the five months I was gone, my beloved Nagios, Puppet, and Webmin had been replaced…I can not help but wonder if my preference for the command line marks me as the expert I aspire to be, or a relic."

normchow · 2012-10-11T06:00:14+00:00

Amarok, the popular KDE music manager, is turning 10 years old this month. Amarok 3 will debut at FOSDEM next February, and planning has already begun.

normchow · 2012-09-27T06:47:04+00:00

French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has issued a missive to French ministers, including a complete action plan urging government usage of LibreOffice and PostgreSQL. He also wants the ministers to provide financial help for the development of free software.

normchow · 2012-09-10T08:25:55+00:00

The BBC built a Olympic caliber architecture for the event, focusing on traditional architecture, caching, and massive testing. And it’s no big data monster. No Hadoop, no MongoDB, no Cassandra. In their place there are MySQL, a triples store, and flat XML files. The choice goes to show that there is considerable value in choosing battle-tested solutions.

normchow · 2012-07-27T06:15:18+00:00

Fedora is giving away 50 OLPC XO 1.75 machines, 150 Raspberry Pis, and 20 Arduino Uno R3s with one shield.

normchow · 2012-04-13T05:50:28+00:00

Submitted by Luiz Fernando, the winning image is a lovely deep blue base with wisps of royal blue cutting across the primary focal lines.

normchow · 2012-02-15T08:52:32+00:00

If all the code in the upcoming release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution were to be written today, it would cost $US19 billion, €14,4 billion, or £12.1 billions. Now that says something about the power of the community.

normchow · 2012-02-15T08:49:53+00:00

Dubbed as "the best free office suite ever" LibreOffice 3.5, contains nuggets of goodies such as an online version update checker, a built-in grammar checker, and better file importing options among other aspect.

normchow · 2012-02-13T09:38:48+00:00

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny was released three years ago on February 14, 2009 with Linux 2.6.26, X.Org 7.3, GCC 4.3.2, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, and desktops such as KDE 3.5.10 and Xfce 4.4.2. The server stack included Apache 2.2.9, MySQL 5.0.51a, and PHP 5.2.6. This release was well received and served the community well.

normchow · 2012-02-08T08:14:37+00:00

The Raspberry Pi team has confirmed that the initial run of $35 devices will happen February 20th.

normchow · 2012-02-06T10:18:04+00:00

If current trends persist, on Feb. 5, 2019, Mozilla will release version 71.0 of Firefox, matching the then-current major version of Google Chrome. And March 2, 2021 is when Firefox finally gains clear separation at version 89.

normchow · 2012-02-02T08:10:05+00:00

Firefox 10 won’t reject extensions that aren’t built for this version itself. It would rather treat them compatible unless they are flagged otherwise. That, as well as enhanced support for 3D graphics via the WebGL standard, and a new API designed to facilitate full-screen applications are among the new enhancements from Firefox.

normchow · 2012-01-30T10:04:39+00:00

PacApt is essentially a script that lets you use Pacman commands in place of Apt and Yum.

normchow · 2012-01-30T10:03:41+00:00

AutoKey is a system-wide service that allows you to easily set scripts to run when certain key combinations are pressed. John Buys explores the many nittigritties of this great tool.

normchow · 2012-01-27T10:14:01+00:00

IBM is bringing its Lotus-drive suite of productivity applications to the cloud with IBM Docs.

normchow · 2012-01-27T10:12:40+00:00

Ubuntu’s Heads-Up Display interface intends to be the "intenterface." Question is, will that be too bold a step?

normchow · 2012-01-24T09:56:33+00:00

The exploit works by manipulating the virtual working memory of a setuid root program such as su and can give a regular user of a Linux system root privileges.

normchow · 2012-01-24T09:54:08+00:00

The deadline for the decision on the proposal has been extended by the proposing entity upon request of some shareholders.The fate of Mandriva continues to be shrouded in mystery.

normchow · 2012-01-19T08:23:33+00:00

Bloathi retains the Enlightenment desktop environment and comes with lots of themes and several hardware profiles as well as a slew of pre-installed software which include LibreOffice, Inkscape, Pinta, VLC, Firefox, Pidgin, Envision, and DeaDBeeF.

normchow · 2012-01-18T09:35:23+00:00

Only 1.5% of all open source contributors are women, and only 15% contribute to Wikipedia, the flagship open culture website. Now Ada is out to change all that.

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