Martijn @ opensource

This time not a real opensource article, I wanted to share a little experience with you. Recently my parent were considering buying a small and simple pc to surf on the web, send and receive e-mail and play simple games (my dad is addicted to Mahjongg Master 5)...

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Earlier in june Charles Davis announced they were starting the summer with a document-cleaning-project, called the The Summer of Documentation. The goal of this little project was to motivate as many people as possible to help and assist in ordening and cleaning the Ubuntu documentation. A beautifull idea, unless the result is not as good as hoped... As a matter of fact, they hardly got any work done. 27 Wiki pages were cleaned up, expanded and brought to “standard” by 4 people.

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Who would've thought that Ikea would be a 'sponsor' of a Linux Rendering cluster? I've seen some funny mods with cabinets and table before, but this one really made me smile... Janne, a swedish guy who work for Svensk Film Effekt used a 30 euro costing cabinet (the Helmer) to build his Linux Rendering Cluster in. His goal was to build a cheap and energy-efficiënt rendering cluster, based on Linux to render his 3d animations.

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Last week the hardware company Foxconn came in the news in a pretty interesting way. An angry Linux user by the name of 'TheAlmightyCthulhu' posted the statement that Foxconn would be sabotaging Linux with their motherboards and collaborating secretly with Microsoft. These are quite serious statements in the world of 'Linux vs Windows' so some explanation is in place.

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For the average Linux user, software can be a bitch to install if you can't find your software package in the normal repositories. Kevin Thompson thought of a solution for this, he started Tux Software with a couple of friends.

Tux Software is a new website (they just moved from Alpha to Beta stage) that provides you with a nice service of searching and installing popular and less-popular software. After adding their repositories and installing a small tool (Linux Software Installer), you can search the database for software that is supported for your Linux distribution. Next thing, you download the .deb package and install it. An other way of using their website is installing the LSI tool, and browse the website for your software. After finding the tool you want, you can click on the link: INSTALL NOW with L.S.I and the L.S.I takes over from there... Pretty smart system for the beginning user I'd say.

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