When John needed wireless for his computer at home, he bought (probably on my recommendation) a Billion 3011N – a USB wireless N device with the Realtek 8191S(U) chipset. On […]
A friend of mine who is still relatively new to Linux has started his own blog, to document some of his experiences and discoveries. He’s primarily a technical writer and […]
The Linux Terminal Server Project team have released version 5.2 after two years and almost one thousand commits. It has become one pretty powerful product! I like the ability to […]
The nouveau project has done it! Finally, an open source 3D driver for NVIDIA video cards has arrived and will ship with Fedora 13. Let’s take a look (including a […]
There are plans afoot to replace the UK government’s computer systems with a “cloud” and free software. The government will also push for “open source” software to be used more […]
Is the success of Linux directly proportional to its ability to integrate with existing proprietary systems like Windows? If so, should free software developers be spending more time integrating with […]
Albany Senior High School in Auckland New Zealand is a new school, set up just last year in 2009. Most education institutions are “Microsoft shops” but this school has bucked […]
I missed this previously, but Munich has finally switched over to exclusive use of ODF for documents, and PDF for non-editable documents. The city administration’s standard desktops now consist of […]
Yep, the Kiwis beat us at everything these days and now those sensible chaps in Government begin trials of Linux and free software. In 2003, the NZ government recommended use […]
It has just been revealed that the Australian Government spends “over half a billion dollars each year” on proprietary software licenses. That’s somewhere over $500,000,000. The Greens are heading a […]