Posts Tagged “Open Source”
I don’t have the details to hand, but it was reported in the Evening Echo and Red FM yesterday, Cork City and County Councils are going to move (all?) their desktop systems to Linux and Open Office over the next few years. I meant to buy the paper but of course it completely slipped my [...]
This article is a good summary of keynotes at OScon. Many 2.5/2.6 changes were put to the test recently when Linus Torvalds announced his move to the Open Source Development Network and the OSDN site was slashdotted. Thanks to improved efficiency in the kernel (especially the virtual memory management system), the system running their Web [...]
Via slashdot comes this short article on developing open source software. I have to say I agree with a lot of what this guy says..
FileShack.com has the source code for the game Duke Nukem! I saw this on Linux Games but thought it was an April Fools! I’d love to play Duke Nukem again!
Ken Guest started a conversation on IRC asking about an open source Goldmine clone. I’ve thought about this a lot in the past and even started on a web based interface to one, had the pop3 reading done, but then I lost interest in the project and the code has disappeared somewhere! I searched and [...]
Here’s an excellent interview covering so much stuff I don’t even know where to start when trying to describe it!
A look at setting up an open source mailserver. He picked Sendmail. Must take a look at smtp_auth for my own use.
The Usability of Open Source Software “They just don’t like to do the boring stuff for the stupid people!” (Sterling, 2002) Open source communities have successfully developed a great deal of software although most computer users only use proprietary applications. The usability of open source software is often regarded as one reason for this limited [...]
