Review of Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) new features and changes.
Startup and shutdown screens won’t blink any more, so no more watching of a boring black screen even for a second. Desktop theme received some minor updates: some pixels changed at the mouse cursors to make them more eye pleasant. Evolution is now displaying popup at the tray in case of a message arrival. In the file manager an image thumbnails will be automatically rotated if they were taken with a camera. more..

KompoZer revives Mozilla WYSIWYG Web editing software.
In proprietary software, Web page design is dominated by Adobe's Dreamweaver and Microsoft's FrontPage. Free software users have witnessed the rise and fall of several Web design apps, but it has been a while since a new one debuted. Now the next new release is here -- KompoZer, heir to the Mozilla Composer legacy and updated for today's technology. more...

Why choose proprietary software over open source? Survey says!
As part of my interview with Dean Drako of Barracuda Networks, he mentioned to me some survey work Barracuda has done. Barracuda talked to 228 enterprise customers and asked what advantages open source has over proprietary software, and vice versa. more...

Songbird audio player has potential, needs work.
Songbird is a cross-platform, Mozilla-based music player with high ambitions. The app is still undergoing heavy development, but it has come a long way since we looked at the 0.1 release in 2006. Songbird today can sing a pretty sweet tune, but to push its way into the big leagues, it needs to get over its own interface. more...

Liquid rescale feature now available as a GIMP plugin.
One month back I had written about a content aware image rescaling technology. And I hoped that this technology will be incorporated in Gimp in the future. Well we didn't have to wait that long. more... and image resizing technology and Liquid Rescale Plug-in: step-by-step.

Building a community around your open source project.
There are a vast number of fantastic open source projects out there, though for every one that is widely adopted, there are many that remain cloaked in relative obscurity. How can the open source development model best be leveraged to take advantage of community feedback, ideas, and testing, and ultimately gather code contributions? more...

Magazine.
Full Circle - the Ubuntu Community Magazine issue 5 and pdf.
Linux Gazette October 2007 (#143).
Fedora Weekly News Issue 103.

Misc.
Ohm's Law Calculations With Power.
The Ubuntu Search Engine - Find everything about Ubuntu Linux in all official resources.

How To Tips.

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