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The KOffice 2.0 beta, part 2: Graphical and charting programs

Author: Bruce Byfield Yesterday, I looked at the major applications in the first beta for KOffice 2.0. Now it's the turn of the rest of...

Foresight Kid’s can inspire young minds

Author: Susan Linton Foresight Linux is best known by many as the distribution that features the Conary package management system. Perhaps soon it may become...

Red Hat/Platform Computing bundle simplifies HPC

Author: JT Smith Red Hat has debuted HPC Solution, which layers a high-performance cluster management stack on top of its 64-bit OS, and aims to...

KOffice 2.0 beta hints at improved capabilities

Author: Bruce Byfield KOffice has been trailing the office application leaders for a long time. Despite years of development, it has yet to match OpenOffice.org...

After 2.0 release, Miguel de Icaza reflects on Mono’s past and future

Author: Bruce Byfield Few free and open source software projects have attracted such a range of reactions as Mono. On one hand, as an implementation...

Sidux grows on you

Author: Susan Linton Sidux, a relatively new desktop Linux distribution, is based on Sid, the unstable developmental branch of Debian. The developers strive for an...

Five outliners for Linux

Author: Bruce Byfield The first essays of the school year are coming due, and with the essays comes the need to outline and plan. GNU/Linux...

NPX-9000 UMPC is inexpensive but underpowered

Author: Phil Thane The wave of cheap netbooks, mini laptops, or ultra-mobile PCs has crested with the cheapest yet, the NPX-9000 from Carapelli. Though it...

PC-BSD 7 is a mixed bag

Author: Gary Sims FreeBSD is a Unix-like open source operating system that can trace its ancestry back to the original Unix. It's well known and...

New Manju project plans to redraw desktop art

Author: Bruce Byfield Most free software projects produce applications for users. A minority, however, produce specifications or libraries for developers and other contributors. An example...