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DocBook-X
Downloads Developed for the projectomega.org team, the DocBook-X package features a small set of shell-scripts (easily used from within Terminal.app) that allow straightforward conversion of DocBook XML documents to HTML or PDF documents.
[February 21, 2002, 7:00]
Bug mars OpenOffice's big day
News The fifth anniversary of the OpenOffice.org launch seemed like a good day to release version 2.0 of the open-source office software suite, but a last-minute bug has forced a delay. The release date had been timed for Thursday, half a decade after...
[October 14, 2005, 9:50]
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed on browser market
News More than four years after the launch of the Mozilla.org open-source project, Mozilla 1.0 is ready to browse. Mozilla.org is excited about releasing the Mozilla 1.0 code and development tools to the open-source community, and providing developers...
[June 6, 2002, 8:48]
Open Rights and digital freedom
News A digital-rights organisation, Open Rights Group (ORG), has been formed to tackle European and British legislation which could threaten digital and civil freedoms. ORG will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on similar digital...
[September 12, 2005, 17:20]
Digital rights group to fight data retention
News A digital rights organisation, the Open Rights Group (ORG), has been formed to tackle European and UK legislation which could threaten digital and civil freedoms. ORG will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on similar digital...
[September 12, 2005, 17:35]
FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux
Talkback FreeBSD has a subproject that works on GNOME integration (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/) but does not have an equivalent for KDE, Although it does have a port (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/kde.html). Instead, KDE is worked on by KDE developers...
[May 13, 2006, 0:00]
AOL/Netscape: Open-source advocates not thrilled with deal
News But the open source advocates at Mozilla.org are none too happy about Netscape Communications Corp.s pending absorption into America Online Inc. Mozilla.org is a small group of individuals dedicated to shepherding Netscape's browser and other open...
[November 26, 1998, 5:43]
FBI intensifies Melissa manhunt
News Two Web sites with connections to Melissa -- SourceOfKaos.com and Codebreakers.org -- have been shut down, allegedly at the behest of the FBI, according to the sites' Webmasters and sources at the hosting Internet service providers.
[April 1, 1999, 9:46]
Oh, it's worse than that
Talkback They blocked the text page on en.wikipedia.org talking about the album itself. They blocked the text page on en.wikipedia.org describing the image, its source, copyright, etc. They did NOT block the image itself, served from upload.wikimedia.org.
[December 12, 2008, 7:42]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office
Talkback Both StarOffice and OpenOffice.org can work with MS documents as well as (and better than most) other office suites. You could just as easily say "Microsoft Office is essentially crippled because it does not import WordPerfect documents well, and...
[June 25, 2004, 1:17]
OpenOffice denies rift with Sun
News Louis Suárez-Potts, the project leader of OpenOffice.org (OOo), has denied reports that Sun should give up control of the open source project it founded. On Wednesday, vnunet.com published an interview with Suarez-Potts where he said that if Sun...
[February 10, 2006, 15:45]
Lotus Symphony 1.2 review
Reviews Like OpenOffice.org, Lotus Symphony is free. However, it's not open source — it's a proprietary fork of the OpenOffice.org code. However, unlike the new OpenOffice.org 3, Lotus Symphony can't open OOXML files (otherwise known as Microsoft Office...
[February 9, 2009, 10:32]
OpenOffice releases Mac alpha version
News OpenOffice.org programmers have released a rough version of the open-source office suite that runs natively on Mac OS X. OpenOffice.org warned those interested in the software that it was early days. The Microsoft Office competitor works on Linux...
[June 13, 2007, 11:51]
Key Linux group faces split
Talkback XFree86 is not the primary windowing system for Linux systems, it's X.org (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/), which was not even mentioned. The author should do some homework.
[February 4, 2006, 1:46]
Too Little, Too Late
Talkback It's nice to see that the pressure Microsoft is getting from OpenOffice.org and other FOSS office software is obviously getting to be significant enough to produce a response. I hope that such a limited exposure to an Office-type product, combined...
[October 9, 2009, 17:57]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
News A Microsoft executive has criticised the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org (OOo), claiming that it is far behind Microsoft Office in terms of functionality. The truth is though that OpenOffice.org is really designed to solve the...
[March 8, 2006, 9:10]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment For the backup solution you may want to consider using Bacula.http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/What_is_Bacula.html Full, Differential, or Incremental backup.http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#RescueChapter
[June 1, 2007, 4:38]
OpenOffice patches three security holes
News OpenOffice.org has released a patch for three security vulnerabilities in its popular open source office suite. Maliciously crafted Java applets can break out of the sandbox — the security mechanism that runs untrusted code — in OpenOffice.org...
[July 4, 2006, 13:35]
Tesco puts broadband in trolley
Talkback Case Leader: Anthony Szynkaruk (020 7783 4341 email: anthony.szynkaruk@ofcom.org.uk) Case Reference: CW/00898/03/06 http://www.ofcom.org.uk/bulletins/c.cw_898/#content OFCOM investigation into E7even.
[April 20, 2006, 1:40]
"suggested ... NHS was working with Microsoft to develop standards"
Talkback If true, this is worrying; given the co-ordinated international work already done and underway in this area: http://www.continuaalliance.org/home/ http://www.ictsb.org/ehealth_standardization.htm http://tinyurl.com/2k3nze http://www.hl7.org...
[January 26, 2007, 14:21]
