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Coming battle over open source phones

"Forget the iPhone. The real battle in the mobile industry is over open-source software. The latest salvo: Nokia's announcement this week that it would...

How to save time and traffic upgrading with apt-proxy

Author: Nathan Willis June is Bandwidth Conservation Month (well, not officially, but let's say that it is), so if you have multiple machines running an...

How to scan and OCR like a pro with open source tools

  With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses...

Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS

Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Symbian, the company behind the popular proprietary mobile/embedded operating system of the same name, just turned 10, but it won't see...

Gizmo5 – a more open VoIP solution

Author: Federico Kereki With Gizmo5, not only can you use your PC to make or get phone calls on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh PCs. But...

Streamlined Firefox 3 makes browsing safer, more productive

Author: Mayank Sharma Desktop users, developers, and reviewers all had their download managers aimed at the Firefox Web site Monday to grab Firefox 3 as...

Using ZFS though FUSE

Author: Ben Martin ZFS is an advanced filesystem created by Sun Microsystems but not supported in the Linux kernel. The ZFS_on_FUSE project allows you to...

Firefox extensions to bring back the dead

Author: Shashank Sharma Don't you find it irritating when a Web page you bookmarked or favorited returns a 404 error on a subsequent visit? Or...

Finally, it’s time for Wine

Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Fifteen years in the making, everyone's favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for...

Chiron FS lets you set up RAID-1 over the network

Author: Ben Martin The Linux kernel includes support for performing RAID-1 in software. RAID-1 maintains the same filesystem on two or more disks, so that...