Posted by michaeldolan
Awesome news from the Ubuntu team. I like this move and I hope this only adds to the growing community backing KVM and working on maturing the management of the technology in the developer community.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue76#head-ae07153a350b0c9e5da6b4c84d8fca9fa1d7ab7a
We’ve chosen to settle on KVM as our main virtualization focus. KVM is a special version of QEMU which utilizes […]
Posted by zerlinna
Two days ago, Serendipity (s9y) 1.0 has been released.
S9y is the blogsoftware I am using. At the beginning I was a bit sceptical - but now that I’ve been using it for some weeks I’m a complete serendipitist
But how can you get your own s9y - Blog?
Of course, there are free […]
Posted by zerlinna
Recently I remembered a post I had seen long time ago on ubuntuforums.org and I’d like to bring it up again
It’s a small but fine hack of a firefox extension: it will allow you to open the recent page or a link in a konqueror window from within firefox.
Go to this page and click […]
Posted by MoPedia
In year 2000, at a meeting in Paris, the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announced that seven $1 million prizes were being offered for the solutions to seven problems in mathematics. A hundred years earlier in the same city, David Hilbert announced a list of 23 problems to drive forward mathematics into the new century. Here […]
Posted by MoPedia
This bad boy is a dell 22″ lcd monitor, probably the sexiest monitor I’ve seen. It’s a limited edition model and it’s not cheap, it’ll set you back $1199. Here are some of its features:
WSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 resolution
TrueColor Technology with 98 percent color gamut (typical)
2ms typical response time (grey to grey)
2000:1 dynamic contrast ratio […]
Posted by michaeldolan
A couple of these are dated (NVU…), but Jimmy Atkinson put together a great rosetta stone for those looking for open source alternatives to their proprietary desktop apps.
http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/
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