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Switching art students to GNU/Linux

Author: Gurdy Leete I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all...

Resynthesizer changes your pictures

Author: Nathan Willis Paul Harrison's Resynthesizer is a texture-synthesis plugin for the GIMP. Sure, you can use it for simple things like creating seamless, tileable...

MySQL: Bug tracking, remote databases, workarounds

Jane Walker writes "In this tip, an expert explains how to connect to backup remote databases without using GUIs, recommends an open source solution...

Xara LX Released at Libre Graphics

Anonymous Reader writes "Linux and OS just gained a new vector graphics application, Xara LX from Xara.  We heard of their intentions to release a...

Novell BrainShare 2006: Day one

Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier SALT LAKE CITY -- Novell is hosting its BrainShare 2006 conference this week in Salt Lake City. Approximately 6,000 Novell customers...

Troubleshooting UNIX systems with Lsof

Anonymous Reader writes "One of the least-talked-about tools in a UNIX sysadmin's toolkit is lsof. Lsof lists information about files opened by processes. But...

EnterpriseDB goes mission critical at Sony Online

Jane Walker writes "The Sony Online Entertainment deal with EnterpriseDB means that open source software has once again cruised into a mission critical space." Link:...

Why PostgreSQL can best SQLServer, Oracle

Jane Walker writes "In this tip, two authors explain how, when and why PostgreSQL tops commercial database systems, as well as its suitability for...

KMFL lets users change keyboards on the fly

Author: Bruce Byfield Setting up support for international characters should be "seamless," several readers said in responses to my recent article, "Setting up international character...

Build UNIX software with Eclipse

Anonymous Reader writes "Eclipse is an excellent open source IDE and has many helpful features. It runs on any UNIX platform with a Java...