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Learning with Gcompris

Mike Diehl — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:01:25 +0000

In my last article, Teaching with Tux, I wrote about teaching children with the Tux Educational programs. Today, I'm going to discuss the Gcompris education suite. Gcompris is meant for younger children from 2 to 10 years old, though it seems to focus on the younger part of this range.

Android 2.0 Makes The Phone

Justin Ryan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:52 +0000

The first phone to use Version 2.0 of Google's Android mobile operating system hit the shelves over the weekend in the form of the Motorola Droid, being peddled by Verizon Wireless. Android, as usual, wowed customers with a wide variety of new and exciting features — the handset housing it, however, did not.

Let's Act on ACTA Before it's Too Late

Glyn Moody — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:19:04 +0000

It was over a year ago that I wrote about the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (ACTA), a new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. Since then, the secret negotiations have been continuing, and the threats it poses to the Internet as we know it grow ever larger.

Package Management With Zypper

Mitch Frazier — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:05:21 +0000

As I've mentioned before I'm an openSUSE user, and as long as they don't make the "U" lower case again, I'll probably stick with it. When it comes to package management, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprice (and SuSE before them) are usually associated with YaST (and yes, I'm still waiting for them to upper case the "a"). YaST works well but it's a bit verbose for installing a single package, and of course that's just more fodder for the apt-getters with all their apt-get install this and their apt-get install thats. And you can't argue with them, but there are other options with openSUSE: yum and apt4rpm come to mind, but the preferred solution is zypper.

Court Gets A Torrent-full About Linux

Justin Ryan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:28:00 +0000

BitTorrent is one of the most contentious technologies available. At least, that is, to the Old Order, those lovely suit-clad corporate types bent on holding technology forever in the days of the — manual — typewriter. The technology, and the suits' dreams of a world free of it, are on trial in Australia, where Linux made an appearance today — at the defense table.

Forget Rasterbator, Posterazor!

Shawn Powers — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:53:44 +0000

Download in .ogv format

Who Needs Time Machine with "Back in Time"

Shawn Powers — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:29:08 +0000

Download in .ogv format

Tech Tip: Restore Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in Ubuntu

Mallik Arjun — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:58:01 +0000

In the last release of Ubuntu (9.04) the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key sequence normally used to kill the X server was disabled by default. Apparently many people like to kill their X server this way so a workaround "dontzap" package was used to enable it. With the latest Ubuntu release (9.10, aka Karmic) it's even simpler to enable it.

Stories Swirling About Skype's Source

Justin Ryan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:43:25 +0000

The rumor mill is alive and well in the Open Source world, as demonstrated by wildly spreading speculation about the possibility of an Open Source Linux client from the popular Skype VOIP service.