An indepth look at OpenOffice.org Office Suite

OpenOffice.org is arguably the finest office suites available in the public domain. It is a direct competitor of Microsoft Office. It includes a Word processor (OpenOffice.org Writer), a Spreadsheet (OpenOffice.org Calc),a Presentation program (OpenOffice.org Impress), a Drawing program (OpenOffice.org Draw) and a Database (OpenOffice.org Base).

Sun Microsystems merges with Oracle

Sun Microsystems gets acquired by Oracle. This is the hot news making rounds on the net. This is a news which could have wide ramifications for the Open Source crowd. Why? Because Sun Microsystems creates some of the most well received, robust open source software around. Just to put it in perspective, let me list some of them which come to my mind.

GNOME Do - An intelligent launcher tool for GNOME

GNOME Do is an intelligent launcher tool which makes all your default menus and panels in GNOME redundant. Since last time I had written about GNOME Do, it has gotten only better. Just a glance through the numerous plugins available for GNOME Do will be enough for any sceptic to fall in love with it.

Debian ceases to be just a Linux distribution

Take the name of Debian and the first thing that comes into ones mind is a robust, user friendly Linux distribution which has helped spawn numerous other Linux distributions. But things have subtly changed. Recently, Debian team added two new architectures to Debian, namely - kFreeBSD for i386 and x64. That is right, Debian can now use the FreeBSD kernel. The tools surrounding the kernel are the same GNU tools found in Linux. So the end users running Debian with the BSD kernel won't find much of a difference in the feel of the operating system. But then, if you are running Debian using a FreeBSD kernel, you can seldom call it GNU/Linux .... you should call it GNU/kFreeBSD.

Source : Debian Announce List

What does it mean to be free ? - We're Linux contest winner announced

Linux is Free. Do you know what that means ? If you don't, the following video will teach you the true meaning of Free.

Adobe's free gift to unemployed developers

Are you an unemployed developer? Did you get the pink slip because your company found it costly to retain you after the economic down turn? Then cheer up because Adobe has decided to provide some succor by releasing it's flagship product Adobe Flex Builder Professional for free. The catch is that - of course, you have to be unemployed and, you can use the software only for personal use to improve your programming skills.

New features in Linux kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.29

Linux kernel has in recent times seen numerous advances. And the latest versions of the Linux kernel namely 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 have some fabulous features in-built into them.

Topping over 10 million lines of code, the current day Linux kernel is no push over and is forming a serious threat to its competition.

Some of the features that are there in the more recent Linux kernels are as follows: