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Safari and Firefox gain on Explorer

Safari and Firefox are continuing to take browser marker share away from Internet Explorer, according to NetApplications. Explorer remains by far and away the...

Once again, I delay a switch to Windows

Author: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller Like all computer users other than a few free software zealots and Mac addicts, I secretly prefer Windows to all other...

Alternative input devices under Linux

Author: Ryan Paul The standard QWERTY keyboard dates from 1874. The computer mouse is a little more recent, but still comparatively ancient. Nowadays a number...

Portable version of OpenOffice.org unveiled

OpenOffice 2.0.1 now comes on a flash drive, but an analyst claims that at 144MB it's too bloated to be truly portable. Link: news.zdnet.co.uk

My desktop OS: Xandros

Author: Jeff Park About a year ago I installed Linux on my desktop at work. I am a database administrator for a PeopleSoft and...

Texas Instruments, MontaVista Linux promise device interoperability

Author: Stephen Feller Texas Instruments (TI) and MontaVista Software announced in December they would pair TI's DaVinci technology-based products with embedded Linux, part of an...

Survey: Blackberry Server on Linux

Ron Gage writes "I am currently conducting a small (less than 10 questions) survey to see if there is any interest in a Linux...

Making Java out of Anthill

Author: Eddie Tejeda Build managers allow developers to better coordinate their coding efforts by providing an automatically generated current and working snapshot of an application,...

PHP Content Management Vendor Turns Five

Adam Sackey writes "Anyone who says Open Source can't work as a business model has another success story to counter their claim as this...

Optical character recognition is an uphill battle for open source

Author: Nathan Willis If you use Linux, or another free operating system, and need optical character recognition (OCR) software, be prepared for a challenge. ...