Category Archives: Open Source
Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's
Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all?
The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
Also posted in Blogging 101, Front Page, Journalism, Linux.com, PR and marketing, Writing, openSUSE Tagged blogging, marketing, pr, Social Media 1 Comment
Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work
Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely.
No doubt the next release of Thunderbird, currently code-named Lanikai, will do [...]
Also posted in Articles, Browsers, Linux, Mail Clients, Microblogging, openSUSE Tagged chrome, firefox, google, microsoft, mozilla, Outlook, thunderbird 1 Comment
Taking Command of the Terminal with GNU Screen
GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same [...]
Google Buzz: Much Ado about Something
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Google is having a yet another go at a social media platform, this time with Google Buzz. Buzz meshes input from third party social media sites like Flickr and Twitter, and pulls in Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Reader, and a number of other features in a [...]
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Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work
Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project [...]
Also posted in Articles, GNOME, Linux, openSUSE Tagged a11y, accessibility, GNOME, oracle Leave a comment
What's New with Banshee
The Banshee Project released 1.5.3 on January 27th. This release brings a slew of improvements to the already impressive media player that gives iTunes a run for its money, if not hype.
For those not familiar with Banshee, it’s a media player written in C# on the Mono platform, started by Aaron Bockover. Since its debut [...]
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