Please forgive me if I sound like I represent anything whatsoever, but I feel like I need to write this down before it slips away. LTSP (The Linux Terminal Server Project – http://www.ltsp.org ) is a very interesting beast when it comes to open source software projects. We are somewhat of a paradoxical entity, representing [...]
Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
The concept of “free” in software (Happy Holidays!)
I’d like to make a distinction between “free” and “free”, if I may. The free you hear everywhere is usually the type of free that you see in the marketable world. Free diagnostic, free coffee with purchase, free seminar… And that’s great. What a lot of people haven’t had the chance to explore, however, is [...]
Peru to Microsoft – No thank you, and here’s why
This in-depth response from Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nunez (Congressman of the Republica of Peru) to Juan Alberto Gonzalez (General Manager of Microsoft in Peru) is a very interesting read. It is in regards to a law mandating the use of open source software and data formats, versus proprietary software and formats in the government [...]
US Department of Defense releases memo on open source software
http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2009/10/27/#dod-oss-2009 – A new 2009 memo written by the US Department of Defense (DoD) is now encouraging anyone working within the department (including contractors and anyone working on software systems) to consider using open source software to meet the goals of their projects. This is an about-face for the DoD, which previously did not consider [...]
IBM to deliver Ubuntu Linux computers instead of Windows 7
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/ibm-and-ubuntu-roll-linux-for.html – IBM is joining the Linux bandwagon along with Dell. With the upcoming release of Windows 7 tomorrow (Oct. 22), IBM has started a campaign in the United States that it has already done in Africa – marketing desktop computers with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed instead of Microsoft Windows. They claim that Linux is a [...]
PulseAudio creator talks about the future of Linux audio
http://tinyurl.com/yjrhjfm – In this article, PulseAudio (the newly adopted Linux sound subsystem and main facilitator of over-the-network sound in LTSP) creator Lennart Poettering responds to critics of PulseAudio and talks about the future of Linux sound. There are some interesting insights into how PA works with other older sound servers, applications that are unaware of [...]
Nokia + Open Source Software = Success
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2582&blogid=14 – Nokia has been on the OSS bandwagon for a while now. With the acquisition of Trolltech (the company who primarily develops the open source QT graphical widget set used in desktop environments such as KDE), and later open sourcing Symbian (their primary operating system for cell phones), there is still a lot of [...]
OpenVPN and Gnome Network Manager
The open source world never ceases to amaze me. Tools emerge from the community that seemingly can do anything their commercial counterparts can, and usually better. There are sometimes a few kinks to iron out, and one of them I will address with this post. I use OpenVPN Zerina add-on ( http://www.zerina.de/zerina/ ) along with [...]
LNS and Linux thin clients gaining momentum on the net
http://tinyurl.com/lyw3bm – It seems as though the Internet chatter is getting louder regarding how we implemented 7 successful Linux thin client labs in schools across Santa Rosa. The post (above) details and comments on the featured Linux.com article we got just a few weeks ago, wishing schools success and more deployments in the future. From [...]
LNS and RVUSD make front page of Linux.com!
It was to my utmost surprise that a phone conversation with a journalist at Linux.com a couple of weeks ago came to fruition as a front page featured article on the new Linux.com website – go on over and take a gander! http://tinyurl.com/mua3gb (URL converted to tinyurl.com – click and you’ll be sent to the [...]