Every day, you hear more stories about open source successes. Like this one:
Archive for May, 2006
People thought Linux was weird, but no longer
Monday, May 22nd, 2006True Open Source Document Management?
Thursday, May 18th, 2006Most of the document management chapter of the book focuses on revision control, on applying developer tools to manage documents. It also talks about content management using systems like Plone and wikis. Here’s a more formal document management system, recently made open source, by a company started by the founders of Documentum:
What you really agree to, by using Windows XP…
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006Not many people take the time to read software licenses. But you should. It’s amazing how much spin some companies put in their marketing message, compared to the fine print:
LinuxAdvocate.org – The Windows XP EULA in plain English
Especially interesting to read this side-by-side with the GPL.
More Encrypted filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES
Monday, May 15th, 2006We’ve written about drakloop and mountloop, a couple of Mandriva programs that simplify the task of creating an encrypted container for your sensitive files. Here’s a new article outlining how to do it in Ubuntu: Linux.com | Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES.