Posts about Open Source Software as of October 20, 2009

WordPress Goes Mobile – Plugins for your Self Hosted WP Blog With thanks to Jennifer Van Grove @Mashable for her article on WordPress Theme s for Mobile Browsers. For anyone hosting their blog via wordpress.com (yourblog.wordpress.com) this is automatic – According to WordPress, there are more than 60 million page views that come from mobile phones per month for WordPress.com blogs. With that kind of traffic, how your site renders on mobile devices could be a big boon to increasing engagement.

Recently, I had the chance to use Lotte to translate and, it simply blows me away. The Transifex crew deserve some well earned applause for including elements that make it incredibly helpful for those involved in the work of translations. There is a slight annoyance which has now been turned into a ticket . Read off Planet Sugar that “several weeks ago”, activities.sugarlabs.org has exceeded 1 million downloads of activities. That’s just too awesome not to talk more about.

Today we launched our revamped and renamed Novell News blog. Our old Open PR blog was originally conceived as a way to give voice to Novell’s views on open source software, Linux, and our mixed-source business model. Over time, the blog has become a much stronger information source for all of Novell, and increasingly a primary vehicle for breaking news. Hence, we’ve rechristened the blog to reflect its news agenda, and we’ve also given it greater prominence on our corporate website.

New Question Created by Linux – Ask the Expert

I decided to launch a new site recently to promote computer repair products and services locally within the town I live. I am very comfortable building with WordPress, and it’s a very stable program. Commonly, most people use WordPress as blog publishing software ; however, WordPress can also be used as a content management system . And that is how I use WordPress most of the time. In other words, I use WordPress to build and maintain websites. The reason why is simple.

The Sony Reader 505 has been published at an attractive affordable eBook reader for the Sony Reader PRS-700. The screen offers that carry the real site search, the device is easy, and it’s easier than ever, the books you want with you at all times. When many people think of handheld ebook reader, they often assume that you are going to have to lug around something big and inefficient. While some of them are big and bulky, that’s just not the case with the Sony Reader.

Andrew Plumb is a really active member of the MakerBot community, and there’s a nice interview with him about his experiences up on the MakerBot blog. I’m writing a piece about MakerBot for Make: 21, and found his story particularly interesting. I was fortunate to be going through university in the early ’90s right when Linux was making the rounds – Math and Engineering, Control and Communications Systems program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Andy Updegrove has written an open letter to US president Obama, urging support for Free/Open Source Software. “It’s time for the Obama Administration to publicly state that it whole heartedly supports FOSS procurement by the federal agencies. Not in preference to proprietary software, but on an equal basis. Only by doing so can it ensure that when it comes to getting the best deal for the American public, the best software will win.”

October 20th, 2009 Posted by Jason Perlow @ 11:03 amCategories:Desktop, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Virtualization, Web TechnologyTags:Desktop, Children, Desktop Linux, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow“Hannah Montana Linux” may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it’s an idea that has legs.My partner in crime in the Frugal Tech Show, Ken Hess, who blogs over at Daniweb, recently published his list of Top 10 Linux Distributions for 2009.

Jolicloud ! You sure may have came across the name NetBook, now a days this word is very famous around us. Net books are laptops, whose working and uses are mostly dependent on(related to) internet, as many thing makes it different from laptop. Ok . Tariq Krim and team created a OS named Jolicloud to satisfy the users of NetBooks. Jolicloud is a Linux-based netbook OS based on Ubuntu NetBook remix (UNR), it is designed specifically for  Netbooks. Jolicloud is in its alpha testing mode and only you can download it through invitations.