After spending time with Torsten Rahn and Everaldo Coelho earlier this year, we continue our Creative Penguin series in a discussion with Tuomas “Tigert” Kuosmanen and Jakub “Jimmac” Steiner of Ximian. If you've ever admired the beautiful artwork of GNOME, these are the gentlemen responsible for it. How did they get involved? Why should you be interested in desktop artwork? They discuss all of this and more with Open for Business' Timothy R. Butler.
MandrakeSoft's Mandrake Linux 9.1 made a major step towards release today as the first release candidate started appearing on servers. The distribution, which has been in “beta” for about a month, should be available in stores mid-second quarter 2003.
Ok folks, while I generally like the X Window System, I will be the first to admit that setting fonts has always been a major pain. It's one of those things in X where someone can always point at it and say “See, this is why X sucks!” Well, not for long. There's a new system being prepped for XFree86 4.3 and it's already somewhat in use for X 4.2. It's called fontconfig, and it will make things a whole lot simpler. Read on below.
Lindows.com, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of an integrated antivirus service for LindowsOS. This new service, called VirusSafe, uses the best-of-breed VexiraTM Antivirus for Linux workstation by Central Command, a leading provider of antivirus software and computer security services. Lindows.com has addressed the #1 software request for its desktop Linux operating system at the low price of just $29 annually.
Lycoris Interview with Jason Spisak the Marketing Director, at Lycoris. Lycoris provides operating systems such as Desktop LX and Productivity suites for office use. “We provide an alternative to Microsoft's core products at a much greater value.” A great interview, something to look over defiantly.
Maintaining patches for software has always been a part of software administration, especially Open Source applications that constantly releasing a new patch or revisions due to the fast bug spotting by all contributing developers around the world. It is very important for system administrators to secure themselves by installing publicly available software patches.
Welcome to a review on Knoppix and KDE 3.1. Knoppix is a distribution of Linux, the open source operating system, that runs completely on a single CD, making no use of the hard drive. This is perfect for people like me, who have always wanted to try out Linux, but never could because they didn't want to completely install a new operating system. This is my first time trying Linux, and my primary operating system is Windows XP. For me, Windows XP is fine. It does everything I need, which is mostly web development and regular computer usage, and is completely stable. However, after KDE 3.1 was released, I felt like I needed to try it out because it looked very nice.
News Watch provides the latest enterprise GNU/Linux and Free Software headlines from around the web
conveniently on the OfB.biz homepage. In essence, News Watch provides for the return of the high quality enterprise GNU/Linux news aggregation that we offered before refocusing on original articles. In addition to the News Watch box on our front page, each of our topical categories now
features a News Watch section to make it easy to spot other resources of news, in addition to Open for Business, for each topic.
91:E has released a line of computers running Xandros Desktop. You can find the announcement below.