Better Wi-Fi on the Linux Horizon

Wireless networking on Linux is entering a new era. An era of bliss and ease; where users and network administrators have abundant time for relaxing lie-abouts on sunny warm hills because their wireless systems are humming along contentedly, instead of being vexing and unreliable. OK, so maybe it’s not going to be quite that Utopian, [...]

Ubuntu Fawn Sighted in the Wild

If you want a copy of the final version of Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn,” it’s out there now–but everyone else is trying to get to it too.
The influx of traffic to the Ubuntu.com servers is causing a very strong slowdown in the Web site’s response times, and occasionally 503 errors are being reported back.
The [...]

Create Ringtones The Open Source Way

The folks over at younevercall.com have put together a handy guide for Linux users looking to create their own ringtones. With cellphone companies charging as much as $3 for a twenty second ringtone, the guide should help Linux users save a little cash.As an added bonus all the software tools involved in the process, Audacity, [...]

OpenOffice deal pushes open-source to business

Open-source business intelligence (BI) software vendor Pentaho is hoping a new tie-up unveiled today with the OpenOffice.org community and Sun Microsystems will bring its BI offerings to the attention of many more new users.
OpenOffice.org (see our OpenOffice review here) is an open-source suite of desktop applications positioned as a rival to Microsoft’s Office suite. [...]

Microsoft tries to maintain its monopoly…are you surprised?

On one hand, Microsoft needs to figure out its future. Clearly, open source is going to play some prominent role in that future. It has to. Microsoft has no choice in that matter.
On the other hand, Microsoft has tens of billions of dollars to protect. So, whatever pretty phrases the company may say about Linux, [...]