rPath Delivers Pushbutton Microsoft Windows App Deployment
December 4th, 2010 by Youzhny
rPath, the self-described “service factory for on-demand IT,” has released rBuilder 5.8, which adds automated Microsoft Windows server application deployment. The company says it’s a natural extension of its work doing the same in Linux server environments. Here’s the scoop on how rBuilder can potentially eliminate some headaches.
The company’s press release claims that 47 percent of IT operating...rPath Delivers Pushbutton Microsoft Windows App Deployment
November 29th, 2010 by Youzhny
rPath, the self-described “service factory for on-demand IT,” has released rBuilder 5.8, which adds automated Microsoft Windows server application deployment. The company says it’s a natural extension of its work doing the same in Linux server environments. Here’s the scoop on how rBuilder can potentially eliminate some headaches.
The company’s press release claims that 47 percent of IT operating...
Linux Kernels, Blog-o-Frenzy And Why You Should Care
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Fall is in the air in New England and I am still sifting through the thousands of product announcements from Oracle OpenWorld 2010 (held in September). One of the questions I keep being asked by solution providers is “What does this new Oracle Linux Kernel mean to me?” Knowing how astute the VAR Guy’s readers are, I jumped at the chance to share my thoughts on this exciting announcement.
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Rethinking video editing with Novacut
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
In this guest post, Jason DeRose of Novacut team explains about the design focus for their upcoming video editor.
Being at UDS was inspiring and life changing for the Novacut team. (A big thanks to all the OMG! Ubuntu! readers and everyone who helped us get there!) Particularly inspiring was the summit’s relentless focus on design. So I wanted to share a bit about Novacut design focus, entice...
Burster – An Open Source Web Browser Plugin for Playing Games, Powered by Blender Project
November 24th, 2010 by Youzhny
Burster is an initiative by iTechnologie and Blender Project to bring 3D gaming to the web browser.
Get a $300 Drone and Fly It Using Ubuntu
November 24th, 2010 by Youzhny
Love Drones and Helicopters that you can fly from your garden or rooftop from a remote control? Got Ubuntu? You are in for a treat.
Parrot AR. Drone
Open source Dreamweaver alternatives
November 16th, 2010 by upa_kid
We did show you before how to install dreamweaver on Linux using wine , and as we believe that there are good open source alternative for this product , we will try to show you bellow some of the open source Dreamweaver alternatives for Linux.
1- Quanta Plus
For quick and effortless web development – Quanta Plus is steadily becoming a worthwhile competitor to the commercial web editors...Installing LedgerSMB (Open Source Accounting Application) On Debian Etch
November 15th, 2010 by jennyamy
LedgerSMB is a free (licensed under the GPL), web based double entry accounting system written in Perl which uses PostgreSQL for data storage. It is intended for small and medium businesses (SMB), and it can be used easily through a regular web browser like Firefox. This tutorial explains how to install LedgerSMB on a Debian Etch system.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1...Setting Up PHPlist (Open-Source Newsletter Manager)
November 14th, 2010 by jennyamy
This document describes how to set up PHPlist on Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. This howto should also work for other distributions with little modifications. Taken from the phplist page: “phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded more than 10 000 times per month and is listed...
Open-Xchange Web Desktop: Apple’s Look Meets SaaS Email
November 14th, 2010 by Youzhny
When Open-Xchange CEO Rafael Laguna began his live demo at the company’s partner summit here in Germany, I sank into my seat a little. Single sign-on and a revamped interface are nice for Open-Xchange (OX) open source email users, but it’s not the kind of thing to energize a room full of channel and SaaS partners. But then Laguna got to a live demo of the work-in-progress version of the Open-Xchange...TurnKey Linux Prepares New Release
November 13th, 2010 by Youzhny
The virtual-appliance ecosystem is poised to become a little larger in the near future as TurnKey Linux prepares a new release, which will sport new features while also doubling the size of the TurnKey appliance library. And that’s good news for VARs interested in easily deployable, open-source solutions for their needs in the cloud and elsewhere. Read on for details.
TurnKey, of course, is...Virtually build robots with open source Linux based robotics toolkits
November 12th, 2010 by upa_kid
Learn how to use virtual arenas to test your robotics algorithms with Linux based robotics toolkits
Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application. Robotics requires a working knowledge of electronics, mechanics, and software.
Building a robot involves skills from many disciplines, including embedded firmware and hardware design, sensor selection, controls...