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Top 5 iPod alternatives for Linux users. Sansa Fuze anyone?

Free software for all Russian schools in jeopardy. The plan, announced last year, to wheel out free software in schools faces opposition.

10 open source projects worth checking out. They range from OpenBravo to Magento.

Great documentation is key to open source success. The documentation should teach, and show examples of what can be done.



Use Synergy to Manage Multiple Monitors With a Single Mouse

Synergy

Among power computer users, dual monitors are quickly becoming the rule rather than the exception. It's incredibly handy to have multiple computer screens to manage dozens of browser windows but it doesn't take long to get quickly get irritated at switching back and forth between them all the time. Synergy is a great little open source tool for getting your computer screens working together so you can manage all of them with a single keyboard and mouse.

Once installed, Synergy lets you arrange screens on top of each other, side-by-side, or perched on opposite ends of your desk. Use your mouse to make the cursor jump effortlessly from screen to screen, and even cut and paste between screens without any hassle. Synergy also makes sure all your screen savers start and stop at the same time. If your screen saver requires a password to shut off, you'll only need to enter it on one screen to access all of them.



Lenovo's Smartbook: The Company Can Still Back Linux

I'm surprised that more people in the Linux community aren't talking about Lenovo's smartbook, which it announced yesterday. Powered by a Qualcomm ARM Snapdragon processor and sold by AT&T, the new smartbook is Linux-based. Lenovo has had an up and down relationship with supporting Linux, and smartbooks may represent a good way for the company to get back on track with an open source platform.


ApacheCon Series: Sourcesense's CEO Weighs In On Open Development

The ApacheCon conference, which marked the 10th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundatoin, wrapped up a few days ago, and there were lots of highlights, including recognition from California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Oakland, California mayor Ron Dellums. In conjunction with the big event, we ran a series of guest posts from key players at the foundation, found here, here, and here. For our final guest post in the ApacheCon series, Gianugo Rabellino, CEO of Sourcesense (a leading open source integrator in Europe, and agile computing consultancy) weighs in on open development. Here it is, below the fold.


Linux Advisory Board Elects New Members

The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation announced a trio of FOSS community members have been elected to its Technical Advisory Board (TAB), joining seven seven existing members whose job it is to collaborate on with the Foundation on issues of concern to the Linux community. Also re-elected for another term are Linux kernel developer John Corbet and Novell's Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Rounding out the rest of the TAB:



Create Fun Multiplayer Games Online With Arianne

Arianne

If you've got a knack for developing games and want to create one on an open source multiplayer online framework, then have a look at Arianne. Written in bare C and running on a Java platform, the application lets you focus on creating your game while Arianne does the heavy lifting on its server architecture.

What started out as a tiny app written in pseudo-C++ is now a client-agnostic server framework that uses Python for game description, MySQL in the backend, and a TCP transport channel to communicate with other players.



Chumby Product Line Expands by One

chumby one

As I just got done saying a couple days ago, we here at OStatic love our chumbys. The always-on wireless device is as cute as it is handy, keeping you connected to all your favorite Web sites like Flickr, Weather.com, and Twitter. The chumby is fully hackable, from its open source software to its leather-and-plastic housing. Now, the chumby has a little sister fresh on the shelves -- the chumby One.

The newest chumby still sports a touchscreen, accelerometer, and a stereo headphone output jack. Unlike its big brother, however, it also features an external volume knob, FM radio tuner, and a slot for a rechargeable lithium ion battery (not included).

The rest of the specs:



Big Predictions, and a Hardware Announcement, From Boxee

We've written about the Boxee media center application a number of times here on OStatic. One of the main differentiators between Boxee's open source media center platform and other similar applications is that Boxee is chock-full of social and sharing features. You can discuss shows and video clips and music with friends online--as you consume them. Boxee is also gaining more and more community-built plug-ins. Today, at the NewTeeVee Live event in San Francisco, Boxee CEO CEO Avner Ronen made a significant product introduction, and quite a few surprising predictions.


6 Easy Ways to Secure Your Hotspot Sessions

Are you increasingly using public Wi-Fi hotspots? If you are, you're in good company, as many more people use public Wi-Fi for work and play. Airports, coffee shops, hotel lobbies, conference centers and many more types of locations are Wi-Fi enabled. Many hotspot hotspot users, though, don't take the right steps to secure their sessions. In this post, you'll find six tips and applications--including both open source and freeware offerings--that you can use to lock down your sessions.


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Broadcom goes open source and hell freezes over. Are its open voice codecs aimed at open mobile platforms?

Cloud to suck money out of market, report says. Cloud computing could put the wind at the back of the IT industry.

Mandriva Linux 2010 review. Faster bootup and better desktop tools are on board.

Google taking heat for calling its language Go. There already is one.



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