UK pays lip service to open source in schools
The UK's Open Source Consortium has joined criticism of UK government education policy towards open source software, maintaining that the British Education Communications and Technology Agency '…
Primed for desktop Linux
The consultants that rolled out Australia's biggest known Linux desktop project are backing themselves for more. A while back I wrote about Kennards Hire's deployment of about 400 desktops running…
Wine 0.9.26 Released
Wine 0.9.26 has been released. New in this release is better support for Unix locale settings, improved X11 keyboard support, various MSI fixes, winecfg improvements and bug fixes.
Weekly Wrap-up
Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is our weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.
Some top stories this week were:
- Howto install Fedora Linux on a…
Kernel Comparison for Linux 2.6.18 vs Windows 2003 R2
This aims to be the most comprehensive kernel comparison of the latest most popular Unix style kernel verses the latest most popular current kernel. A kind of kernel comparison FAQ.
Kernel…
FOSS.in kicks off
Just a reminder that FOSS.IN, one of the world's largest and most focussed FOSS events, held annually in India is going on right now. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants,…
GRISOFT Expands its AVG Security Solutions for GNU/Linux
GRISOFT, the developer of AVG security software, announced several new versions of its antivirus offerings for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD open source platforms. The products include AVG Email Server…
Beryl is now included in the Fedora Extras repository
Beryl is now included in the Fedora Extras repository. You can install it with yum or pirut. The easiest way is to install a meta package which will install all other needed files through…
SUSE Linux 9.2 security support is now discontinued
Last night I received an email from a viewer questioning the state of SUSE 9.2. So, for others that may have missed this, be advised SUSE Linux 9.2 security support was discontinued earlier in the…
OLPC $100 laptop Linux user interface video
Here is a new video of the "Sugar" user interface for the $100 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laptop. As you may know, the mission of this non-profit association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the…