Category Archives: open source

WordPress advances

WordPress (which powers this site) announced a couple of major advances this week: Version 1.0 of WordPress MU - a multi-user version of Word Press, and bbPress - a forum software that integrates with WordPress.
WordpressMU reaching 1.0 is a biggie - I tried an older version about a year ago, and it just didn’t fly. […]

Novell Open Audio Podcasts

Novell has just announced Novell Open Audio - a series of podcasts hosted by ‘Reverend’ Ted Haeger, who spearheads Novell’s user community. The podcasts are billed as “focusing primarily on technical level discussions with product managers, engineers and others involved in Novell’s product development.”
I’ have already listened to the first one which focuses on iFolder […]

How to become a hacker

Nat Friedman has an interesting article on his blog, entitled “How to become a hacker” - and by hacker, he means computer programmer.
He lists the secret as this:

Download the source code to the program you want to change
Untar it on your hard drive
Get it to build and run
Open the source code in an editor
Find the […]

NX

I’ve been very interested in the series Linux Journal has been running on NX. They describe it as: “a new technology that allows one to run remote X11 sessions across slow or low-bandwidth network connections. User experience with NX is one of excellent responsiveness. Users with previous remote X11 session experience are stunned by […]

Open SUSE

Novell has recently “opened” their development of SUSE Linux, creating a project called Open SUSE
To clarify what Novell means when it says it is “opening” SUSE, Mancusi-Ungaro says “SUSE Linux is already open from a code perspective. [It] has not been open from a development perspective. Development was closed, beta was closed, and there was […]