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Linux.com | Kiosktool locks down KDE users' desktops
Seeded on Wed May 30, 2007 7:19 AM EDT (enterprise.linux.com)
By: Anže Vidmar Recently I wrote about locking down the GNOME desktop environment with Pessulus. In this article, I'll show you how to do the same for KDE, using Kiosktool, a front end for changing the KDE configuration files in users' home folders and the /etc/kde* folders.
Linux.com | NuFW brings IPv6 support
Seeded on Tue May 29, 2007 6:02 PM EDT (tips.linux.com)
By: Shirl Kennedy The Now User Filtering Works (NuFW) team has announced the initial release of the 2.2 stable branch. NuFW is a user-authenticating firewall that runs on top of the the Netfilter framework.
Linux.com | Eben Moglen: MS should remove patents from Novell agreement (video)
Seeded on Tue May 29, 2007 4:50 PM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Joe Barr In this segment of our week-long series of video excerpts from our interview with Professor Eben Moglen at last week's Red Hat Summit in San Diego, he explains why it could be disastrous for Microsoft to continue the patent aggression that is part of their Novell ag …
Linux.com | Adobe relicenses XMP toolkit as open source
Seeded on Tue May 29, 2007 1:23 PM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Nathan Willis Adobe has released a new version of its Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) toolkit, and for the first time it is under an open source license that allows the code to be incorporated into free software.
Linux.com | Open Web Analytics for WordPress
Seeded on Tue May 29, 2007 10:50 AM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier WordPress is a full-featured "personal publishing" platform, but it offers little in the way of traffic analysis.
Linux.com | Backing up MySQL data
Seeded on Tue May 29, 2007 9:58 AM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Tom Adelstein and Bill Lubanovic Backing up files and directories is relatively easy; databases, however, have some special quirks that you need to address. Our examples use MySQL, but the same principles apply to PostgreSQL and other relational databases.
Linux.com | Eben Moglen: GPLv3 not about MS and Novell (video)
Seeded on Mon May 28, 2007 10:57 PM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Joe Barr One of the highlights of my visit to San Diego for the Red Hat Summit was the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with Professor Eben Moglen.
Linux.com | Firefox extension lets you remove elements from Web pages
Seeded on Mon May 28, 2007 10:50 AM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Mayank Sharma Are you irritated by huge graphical ads smack in the middle of an article?Or maybe you don't want to waste bandwidth viewing the dozens of images in a review, or user icons in forum boards? You can remove them for good with a single click by using Firefox's RIP …
Linux.com | FullerScreen 2.0 released
Seeded on Mon May 28, 2007 8:58 AM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Shirl Kennedy Disruptive Innovations has released FullerScreen 2.0, a Firefox extension that tweaks the browser's full screen mode by "disappearing" the remaining toolbars and status bars till the mouse pointer nudges an edge of the screen.
Linux.com | OSS hits the beach in Florida
Seeded on Sat May 26, 2007 11:46 AM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Bob Currier Driving to your favorite beach only to find it covered with dead fish is no fun.
Linux.com | Redflag to boost OpenOffice.org development
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 4:21 PM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Shirl Kennedy Redflag Chinese 2000, software subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Science, have announced a joint engineering agreement with Sun Microsystems to enhance Red Office. Red Office is the Chinese language version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite.
Linux.com | Hugin developer launches photographic distortion correction database
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 3:37 PM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Nathan Sanders The lead developer of the Hugin panorama-stitching application, Pablo d'Angelo, has proposed a new open database for collecting camera lens information that could be used to correct systematic distortion in photographs.
Linux.com | Transferring files with gFTP
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 11:42 AM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Chad Files gFTP is a complete, easy-to-use file transfer tool for the Linux desktop. In spite of its name, gFTP can transfer files using more than standard File Transfer Protocol; it provides several features that make it more than just another FTP client.
Linux.com | Simple but powerful audio editing: Jokosher 0.9 released
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 8:46 AM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Shirl Kennedy Jono Bacon, one of the Jokosher developers and Ubuntu's community manager, has announced the third public release of Jokosher, a multi-track audio studio that aims to make audio editing easy.
Linux.com | GPE project and Handhelds.org in acrimonious trademark dispute
Seeded on Thu May 24, 2007 2:53 PM EDT (enterprise.linux.com)
By: Nathan Willis Disagreements between developers from the G Palmtop Environment (GPE) project and the administrators of the mobile Linux portal Handhelds.org now include a trademark dispute.
Linux.com | Novell and EFF announce 'patent busting' agreement
Seeded on Thu May 24, 2007 12:24 PM EDT (news.linux.com)
By: Shirl Kennedy From the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco this week comes the news that the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) and Novell have joined forces "to reform software patents."
Linux.com | Five days with the Classmate PC and Mandriva
Seeded on Thu May 24, 2007 10:52 AM EDT (enterprise.linux.com)
By: Tina Gasperson Some say the Classmate PC is Intel's answer to (or competition with) the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) effort.
Linux.com | Unveiling the Art of Illusion
Seeded on Thu May 24, 2007 8:00 AM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Nathan Willis Blender gets the lion's share of press among free 3-D modeling applications, but it is not the only player in the field.
Linux.com | BeleniX 0.6 at last!
Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 9:11 PM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Shirl Kennedy BeleniX 0.6 has finally arrived. The latest iteration of this "live CD" OpenSolaris distribution hits the Web just about six months after 0.5.1 was released.
Linux.com | Tone-mapping HDR photos with Qtpfsgui
Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 6:14 PM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Nathan Willis A lot of photos tagged with "HDR" turn up on Flickr and similar photo sharing sites these days. They're unnatural, surreal, sometimes crazy-looking images with the bright areas darkened, the dark areas brightened, and lots of saturation.
Linux.com | KDE project releases 3.5.7
Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 5:45 PM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Shirl Kennedy Yesterday's translation and service release of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) 3.5.7 incorporates bugfixes for KAddressBook, KOrganizer, and KAlarm.
Linux.com | Share files with friends while chatting using Qnext
Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 3:38 PM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Mayank Sharma Two of the most popular open source instant messaging clients, Pidgin (formerly Gaim) and Kopete, can work with multiple protocols, but neither is a great option when it comes to sharing files with friends.
Linux.com | New PCLinuxOS 2007 looks great, works well
Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 9:13 AM EDT (distrocenter.linux.com)
By: Susan Linton PCLinuxOS is a live CD distribution that enables users to test Linux without actually having to install it. The highly anticipated new version, PCLinuxOS 2007, was released on Monday.
Linux.com | Fyodor on Nmap and Sourcefire collaboration
Seeded on Tue May 22, 2007 11:32 PM EDT (applications.linux.com)
By: Joe Barr Sourcefire and Insecure.org announced today that they will collaborate to develop an open source Nmap-based vulnerability detection tool.
Linux.com | Freenode and OFTC IRC networks buddy up
Seeded on Tue May 22, 2007 9:58 PM EDT (community.linux.com)
By: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier Two Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks that are used heavily by free and open source software projects, freenode and the Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC), are building bridges by swapping staff and observing each other's operations.
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