KNOPPIX 6.0 Boots Twice as Fast
Jan 29, 2009Klaus Knopper lives up to his reputation as a resourceful tinkerer with the new Knoppix 6.0, a live CD that brings with it a few enhancements, including the ADRIANE talking menu system and an optimized boot process.
more »Multi-pointer Remote Desktop: Ending the Mouse/Keyboard Wars
Jan 27, 2009Developer Chris Ball has patched the Vino Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server to display multiple simultaneous mouse and keyboard events. The result could be an end to the battle over mouse and keyboard control among local and remote users in a VNC environment.
more »Partition Magic: Parted Magic 3.5 with ext4
Jan 27, 2009Parted Magic, the live distribution with Gparted and other tools to create, modify and secure hard drive partitions is now available in version 3.5. And thanks to the Linux 2.6.28.2 kernel, the new version comes with support for ext4 file systems.
more »Opera Complaint Against Microsoft Backed by FSFE
Jan 23, 2009Opera Software has filed a complaint against Microsoft's practice of tying Internet Explorer to Windows. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has offered its backing of Opera's complaint.
more »Asus Kickoff: Eee Keyboard with PC
Jan 22, 2009Asus introduced a PC-in-keyboard model at the CeBIT 2009 show in Munich. The device, with its five-inch side-mounted touchscreen, targets home theater users.
more »Ultralight Windows Netbook from Sony with Linux Instant-On
Jan 22, 2009Sony has brought a new mini-notebook to the market that is small, light, stylish and with Windows Vista, although its instant-on feature is Linux-powered.
more »Polyakov's OOM Killer Tamer
Jan 19, 2009Evgeniy Polyakov has released a patch to the kernel's out-of-memory (OOM) killer function, which was designed to prevent a system freeze in an OOM condition by sacrificing one or more processes. The patch "tames" the function by defining the specific process to kill.
more »Google Sets Jaiku Free
Jan 16, 2009Google will close the microblog project Jaiku and publish the source code under an Apache license.
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