Archive for the ‘ Open Source ’ Category
This is 0ne of the best blog posts about OS in a while … 5 ways to misunderstand Free and Open Source Software. 1. The software industry can’t keep going if programmers don’t get paid. 2. Innovation is killed in free software. 3. Software Should Just Work (who cares about source code?) 4. Free software doesn’t respect authors’ [ READ MORE ]
Matt Hartley posted an nice article about Linux Desktops in Businesses. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3717261It really is an interesting read. GNOME, both on the user and development side of things, believes in the integrity of GPL-based code and ease of use. Applications developed in this realm tend to be rather vanilla in appearance, yet will work as advertised. KDE on the [ READ MORE ]
Today the KDE Promo Team announced some more details about the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, CA. It will be a three day Event with BoF sessions and talks all around Open Source and KDE itself. On friday there will be keynotes, speeches and a release party at the Google Campus. I hope that there will [ READ MORE ]
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On the weekend, I installed the latest Kubuntu release onto my desktop PC. I must say the distribution is getting better with every release. The first thing I noticed, finally Kubutu got a “Blueish” KDE 3.5.8 theme, which makes the desktop really beautiful (I didn’t like the old themes very much). The setup went on pretty well [ READ MORE ]
My last entry here was about three weeks ago. The reason, why I did not write anything, is, that there was nothing to blog about. No special News, Funny Clips…. The only interesting thing is, that I started my last half year at the HdM in Stuttgart. I will write my thesis at the IBM Lab in Böblingen [ READ MORE ]
Today I decided to start a small series of posts about KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) and its Version 4.0. KDE together with Linux is something you would call an operating system. Linux does the stuff down at the Hardware level and KDE ist the Graphical User Interface You can compare it with Windows or Mac OS X. [ READ MORE ]
Hier finden sich zehn Regeln, die man beachten sollte, wenn man vor hat in die Entwicklung von Open Source Software einzusteigen. [ READ MORE ]
Was ist OOXML und warum sollt ihr nein sagen =) Jeder von euch kennt aus der Microsoft Office Welt die .doc, .xls, .ppt … Dateien. Da diese Formate schon einige Jahre auf dem Buckel haben und Sie für moderne Systeme gewisse Funktionalitäten missen. Zum Beispiel: PCs können diese Dateien nicht durchsuchen und mir sagen in welchem [ READ MORE ]
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