Archive for the 'Open Source' Category

iTunes Killer Plays the Web on Windows Mac and Linux

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Here’s a screencast from our friends over at puddlegum.net demonstrating some of the features of the cross-platform media player Songbird. Songbird is built on the XUL framework (like Firefox) and works on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

Second Day with Edubuntu 6.06

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Our second day of working with the newest release of Edubuntu was much more successful than the first. In just a couple of hours, we got six of our old computers up and running. We needed to replace the video card on one machine. For the rest of the machines, we just [...]

First 24 hours with Edubuntu 6.06

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

I got my hands on Edubuntu 6.06 about 24 hours ago. Since then, I’ve had a chance to install it on 2 different machines. Here’s a brief rundown of how things have gone so far.
First Install - My Notebook
I have a Sony VAIO V505BL that was running Ubuntu 5.10. I decided to [...]

Edubuntu 6.06 LTS Released - Download now!

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

The newest version of Edubuntu (6.06 LTS - Dapper Drake) has just been released to download servers. This release has many new features (see press release). I’ve used previous betas of this release and was very impressed. We’re downloading now, and tomorrow we start a new project to setup our student computer [...]

Mac OS X Installation Instructions That Don’t Suck! (Rails, Lighttpd, MySQL, Apache2, PHP5)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I had to reinstall my computer the other day, it’s needed it for a while (mostly because I’ve installed every stupid program I could get my hands on for the last 6 months). I haven’t wanted to reinstall because I had a “working” install of Rails and I remembered how hard it was to [...]