JacobAnd out of left field, it's Nintendo! Never saw this one coming, did you?
The folks at OSNews have unearthed an interesting, not well-known discovery: Nintendo has released the "Nintendo ES" operating system, and not only that, but under an entirely free and open-source license.
The OS is written in C++, runs EMCAScript (JavaScript), uses Cairo for rendering, and as of recently, can run Squeak, a Smalltalk programming language …
PeterArs Technica is reporting that the Motion Picture Association of America have been hit with a DMCA takedown notice after offering a download of an Ubuntu-based networking monitoring tool without source code, a direct violation of the GPL.
The MPAA software was supposedly designed to assist universities in detecting people using software to download and share copyrighted material and was apparently based on the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
The obvious irony …
PeterMoney management. It's generally not very fun, but it's something we all have to deal with.
There are several open source applications for finance management, GnuCash being one of the most well known and a very strong contender.
Over on the KDE specific side, we have KMyMoney, currently at version 0.8.7.
The ultimate objectives of KMyMoney are...
- Familiar Features. KMyMoney intends to provide all
important features found in the …
PeterPlease note - I managed to write this tutorial such that it works, right up to the step where you compile Epiphany. Where it fails miserably. WebKit builds fine, and you can use the test WebKit browser without a problem, but I was unable to get it to work completely. I thought it would be a shame to let this tutorial go to waste however, so here it is. YMMV. …