My friend Marco Ostini from the super cool Lunar Numbat Project pinged me today to let me know that if you want to talk about something at the Australian Linux Conference, linux.conf.au, which takes place at the end of January next year in Brisbane, you've only got until this Saturday to submit your paper.
Ubuntu’s parent company Canonical have become the first member to sign up to the ‘Open Invention Network’s new associate membership program. The Open Invention Network exists to acquire patents and license them royalty free to […]
I have been asked several times why I do not refer to Linux as “GNU/Linux,” or “the GNU/Linux operating system,” or some variation thereof. Most of you are well aware of the controversy around using […]
As part of this years Doctor Who series the BBC are launching a set of 4 free fully interactive downloadable adventure games (referred to as ‘episodes’) for UK viewers (and those who like proxies). The […]
With the biannual list of the top 500 supercomputers the world over released, the following screenshot of a graph showing the operating systems used in those 500 peta-flop crunching machines, and produced by the University […]
Setting up BluRay playback on Linux can be a pretty complicated affair with only certain drive models working correctly and reliance on hacked firmware to get things going. The MakeMKV project have come up with […]
Avant Window Navigator hits version 0.3.2 today, the first major release for the Linux Dock since this time last year. I’m a self confessed Dock-a-holic. I, obviously, have a dock in OS X, i use […]
Here’s a quick run-down of my top 4 favourite screenlets right now. 1. Now Playing – with Inlaid Alt Theme A luscious and slick theme for the default ‘now playing’ screenlet. Has Previous, Play and […]
Tech bloggers have been heralding Windows 7 as the end of a resurgent Linux. Very OTT, in my opinion. A lot of the praise for Windows 7 is deserved as it is, in it’s beta […]
To view Silverlight embedded content on the web in Linux, simply install the ‘moonlight’ add-on for Firefox developed by Novell. (Them what make OpenSUSE!). The add-on is being developed with assistance from the hallowed redmond […]