Posts about Open Source Software as of July 16, 2009

PRESS RELEASE: 7/16/2009 TheBackpacker TV announced today that they are now on a new social networking site that integrates personal media with Internet media called Boxee . Boxee is a free, open-source software platform. Boxee is designed for your TV and use of a remote control. Boxee’s social networking component allows users to share information about what they’re listening to or watching with other boxee users or friends on social networks like twitter , facebook, etc.

Luis Villa pointed  folks on the Autonomo.us email list to this essay at Free Software Magazine by Tony Mobily. The article title, “Why Google Chrome OS will turn GNU/Linux into a desktop winner,” is a good summary of Mobily’s basic argument. Although there has been lots of discussion about Chrome OS in the free and open source software communities (e.g. on LWN ), its worth qualifying this post by saying that, beyond Google’s announcement , we don’t actually know very much about Chrome OS.

Ubuntu is an operating system consisting of free and open source software. With Ubuntu you can surf the web, read email, create documents, spreadsheets and more! Ubuntu gives you the power and flexibility for business, education and home use. Check out the customer reviews for Ubantu and get online deal on the software.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google.

If you are developing or have developed a website and site performance is your main concern, this post is what you may want to read into. There are several factors that affects an website performance. The list below, which has been taken from yahoo developer’s network as  a reference, might help you a lot to find out where your site is performing poor or what areas of your website needs re-modeling in order to make it behave better in terms of performance.

The Ares free download software isn’t just great for free music downloads and other file sharing. It’s also a community where you can meet other people who share your interests in film, music, and even open source software. You can find other people who like the genres, bands, movies, or directors that you like while on the network. The Ares free download software includes chat rooms where you can meet others who are fans of the same kinds of music, movies, video, etc. that you like.

Open-source software has gained growing acceptance in the enterprise. Once enterprises put in place the same governance, policy and support processes around open-source software as they do with proprietary software, there is no limit to how much open-source software they can bring into their organization. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Carol J. Rizzo offers five tips on how to bring open-source software into your organization in a way that maps to your corporate risk factors, making open-source software no more or less of a risk than proprietary software.

How to Bring Open-Source Software into the Enterprise “Open-source software has gained growing acceptance in the enterprise. Once enterprises put in place the same governance, policy and support processes around open-source software as they do with proprietary software, there is no limit to how much open-source software they can bring into their organization.” tags : OB , open source , governance , enterprise Install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu 9.04 using Ubuntuzilla | Tombuntu “Ubuntuzilla can integrate the new version of Firefox into your system as well as undo its changes if you want to go back.

I strongly recommend that you read Jeffrey Hammond’s interview published by James Turner on the O’Reilly Radar’s Blog . A Principal Analyst in the Application Development and Program Management Group at Forrester research , Jeffrey is an expert in software development, Web 2.0 and rich internet applications. As such, he is also one of the leading specialists in open source software. Jeffrey’s insights on how “Open Source is infiltrating the enterprise” are really fascinating.

If you are looking to present your photos in an attractive online photo gallery display, there are lots of ways to do it, but I think my favorite one is an open source Flash gallery I stumbled upon the other day.   I love open source! And as I always try to find alternatives to the unreasonably expensive software I’m always happy to try any of the open source choices.  The main thing to remember about using open source software is to keep the creator’s copyright notice intact whenever using it online.  It is part of the Creative Commons licenses included with open source software.