KDE 4.1 rocks the desktop
July 30, 2008
KDE 4.1 was finally released to the public today. After all the controversy since the release of KDE 4.0, I’m happy to announce that KDE 4.1 simply rocks.
Installfest at LinuxWorld could seed national program
July 30, 2008
IDG World Expo has teamed up with open source security gateway provider Untangle and electronics recycler Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) to host an Installfest for Schools at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco next week. Volunteers will refurbish older discarded computers with free and open source software (FOSS) before they are donated to schools in need.
OLS 2008 wrap-up
July 30, 2008
Day 3 of this year’s Ottawa Linux Symposium featured a number of sessions, most notably a keynote address by Ubuntu founder and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth, who called for the greater Linux community to start thinking about discussing syncronicity, his term for having major software releases synchronised. The conference wrapped up on Saturday with some final interesting sessions and statistics.
Xataface lets non-technical users edit MySQL data
July 30, 2008
Xataface is a framework for the LAMP stack designed to allow non-technical users to edit the contents of MySQL databases through a Web interface. While phpMyAdmin is a great tool for database administrators and those who are familiar with SQL and database design, Xataface aims at allowing less technical people to modify the database.
