Patents are very important — they help the small guys with really great ideas protect themselves. They give those people and companies a real chance in a world that’s dominated by large organizations that build their business on stealing great ideas. That said, holding a patent isn’t a sure-fire way to protect yourself, but it certainly helps. Via ZDNet, read more
PiTiVi To Be Included In Ubuntu 10.04
Speculations were recently confirmed that the open source video editing package PiTiVi will be included in the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 as a default application.
Ubuntu 10.04 will bring many changes, including quite a shake up in the selection of default applications.
How To Install Global Menu on Ubuntu
Global Menu is an application for linux that emulates the Mac OSX menu in the top panel. A global menu is handy in saving horizontal screen space and utilizaing otherwise wasted space on the top Gnome panel.This works with all GTK application, therefore it won’t work with KDE based applications, Firefox, and Open Office. read more… »
Linux Owns 1/3 of the Netbook Marketshare
Lots of people use Linux. That’s known. But usually those people are computer science majors flipping major corporations the bird (before they sell out to said corporations after graduation), not consumers buying systems with Linux preloaded. read more
Watch out Microsoft: GNOME is poised to have a killer 2010
The GNOME Foundation features a powerhouse roster of vendor sponsors who are committing more money than ever to support desktop Linux. read more
A look at the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx
Merely 2 months after Ubuntu’s recent Karmic release, developers have already started focusing their efforts on the next release of the this popular Linux distribution. The next version of Ubuntu is planned to be LTE (long term release), meaning that support for it is 5 years as apposed to the standard 3 year support cycle. Having that in mind the release will probably focus more on stability than the introduction of bleeding edge features.
AWN – The Almost Forgotten Linux Dock
AWN was one of the first docks I tried on Linux, I then moved to Cairo and then onto Docky. Back then in terms of functionality Cairo and Docky were more featureful, however I always missed AWN for its reliability and aesthetic interface. AWN 4.0 beta is available for download and from what the beta holds it seems like this dock is about to reclaim it’s place in the land docks it once held.
The Karmic Koala Bible
Although Linux is the cheapest, safest and most stable platform for operating systems out there, its adoption isn’t nearly that of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows, Partially because there is an almost non existent commercial marketing budget for it and also the transition from another operating system to a Linux based system seems a task that’s daunting for most mainstream users.
A Look At Docky (post “do” divorce)
It was recently announced by developers that the popular Gnome-Do and Docky would be divorcing. I for one loved the integration of the Dock and the Do, however the divorce was said not to be a complete separation as the two separate apps with be able to inter operate. read more… »
Google Chrome OS Peak
Google did mention to expect an early version of their operating system, soon. They did stick to thier promise and offered a development snapshot of thier upcoming operating system today. As speculated the operating system is the chrome browser on steroids, it seems that the whole interface is web browser centric. There will be no conventional applications, all the apps run on the OS is said to be web applications.
