Category Archives: Open Source

After dabbling with Frontier over the last five years, I often miss the outlining features of Frontier’s built-in IDE when working in other environments. I’m intrigued however with Dave Winer’s latest announcement regarding the eminent release of the Frontier kernel … Continue reading →

Give that old PC a new life by turning it into a retro gaming console with the KnoppiXMAME Live CD Linux Distro. “KnoppiXMAME is a bootable CD/DVD image with hardware automatic probing and configuration for playing MAME games. No games … Continue reading →

After reading a bit about the Sentinix GNU/Linux distribution, I wasn’t entirely interested because it’s described as a Linux distribution for network monitoring intrusion detection, penetration testing, auditing, statistics/graphing and anti-spam. The anti-spam feature seemed to be a minor addition. … Continue reading →

I just read via Boing Boing that the copyright on the original Night of the Living Dead movie has expired and the entire film is available online for download via Archive.org! (Brewster Kahle, I’ll say it again, you rock!) Incidentally, … Continue reading →

I’m constantly amazed at the influx of customized bootable Linux CDs (aka Live Linux) For example, check out some of the distributions on this list The distro’s geared toward kids and education are starting to look particularly interesting to me … Continue reading →

Kazaa is promoting a BitTorrent-like distributed P2P alternative that can be embedded in other P2P networks and web links, which they are calling Magnet links (via Anil Dash’s Links) More here… “Magnet links allows users to directly download large media … Continue reading →

Looks like Mandrake has joined Knoppix in the bootable Linux CD distro trend… “The MandrakeMove Download Edition is a new product based on Mandrake Linux 9.2 which provides a complete personal desktop operating system on a bootable CD. With MandrakeMove, … Continue reading →

This is a handy legal explination of Open Source Software by Red Hat’s Mark Webbink, Esq.: “Mark Webbink, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc., wrote this article for corporate attorneys, explaining free and open source software … Continue reading →

Build a test Open Groupware server simply by rebooting your system with the OGo Knoppix CD! “OGo Knoppix CD is a bootable CD which contains a complete Debian GNU/Linux system, a fully configured OGo installation, a Cyrus server and some … Continue reading →

Morphix is similar to Knoppix in that it’s a complete bootable Linux Distro on CD. The main difference however is that Morphix is modular — with ISO packages ranging from light-weight GUI to gamer “Morphix is a modular distribution, with … Continue reading →

This seems like a smart approach: Stop spam at the SMTP-level with Whitelists and Bayesian filtering using the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy (ASSP): “The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists … Continue reading →

I found searchhi, which is a slick JavaScript library by Stuart Langridge that will highlight keywords in your documents when the referring link to you page comes in from a seach engine such as Google: “searchhi JavaScript library is a … Continue reading →

AppRocket seems to be a hybrid application manager with “intelligent search” that appears to be based on LaunchBar for Mac OS X. (link via Les Orchard) “AppRocket uses a very special search algorithm to zip through thousands of items and … Continue reading →

I had a chance to take a look at the new 4.0 version of Jahia and I must say that I am very impressed. As 100% Java solution, it’s a competitive alternative to SharePoint. Jahia is not quite Open Source … Continue reading →

I love this stuff too… “Explorer Bar (Band) Maker is a Windows tool (one-step wizard) that lets you create your own Explorer bar from any HTML page, picture or Macromedia Flash file.” (via Anil Dash’s Links)