http://www.somgnu.org We are Free Software Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:17:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are going to take a quick look to all those important news that were published during this week: OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC3 was published. Even though it was supposed to be published at the end of September, it seems that they want to fix some issues by this time. So we ... http://www.somgnu.org/news-on-saterday/ I can't understand why, after many releases, usb support is not working by default on GNU/Linux when using VirtualBox. Also, the way to enable it is different for each distribution. In Fedora 9, the way to enable it is: 1. Create a "usb" group. Go to System > Administration > Users and groups. ... http://www.somgnu.org/usb-support-for-virtualbox-fedora-9/ When we want to obtain the code (or just the color) that is in our desktop (can be on firefox, or simply on other application) we can try different ways to obtain it: 1. Calling Homer Simpson and ask him which color he think that the color in question is. 2. Opening ... http://www.somgnu.org/stupid-but-useful-apps-gcolor2/ Mandriva 2009 beta was released yesterday. Among all the changes that we can find, there is one kind of interesting: the new installer. As openSUSE did, the Mandriva team decided to improve the installation program and now it is really cool. About package versions, this beta updates OpenOffice.org to version 3.0 ... http://www.somgnu.org/mandriva-2009-beta-released/ I've looking for information about configuring Fedora 9 on a MacBookPro and I didn't find anything (just a shame). For that reason I'd like to resume the main steps to configure the basic things that a normal user would need. Installation There is nothing important to remark. First we have to install ... http://www.somgnu.org/fedora-9-on-a-macbookpro/ It's been three years since the free web operating system EyeOS was released. Now, more than 200,000 users are using it. It was developed by Catalan programmers in Olesa de Montserrat (Catalonia) and they are going to open up new centers in France and in the U.S. EyeOS is basically a ... http://www.somgnu.org/3-years-of-eyeos/ Carlos Castro is one of the main reasons for which LinEX, the first regional Spanish GNU/Linux distribution, became a reference all around the world (there is a documentary in EuroNews). LinEX was developed with the support (monetary support) of the Extremadura Government (in Spain) and a couple of years later was ... http://www.somgnu.org/canon-in-spain/ Two days ago, a friend of mine who discovered GNU/Linux more or less some days before, tried to install Ubuntu on his father's computer. The problem was that it wasn't only his father's computer, it was property of the school where he works. He started Ubuntu on the graphical mode and ... http://www.somgnu.org/recovering-data-on-gnulinux/ Free Software can also help us writing novels. StorYBook is a tool created in order to make easier the hard task that writing novels is: it is complicated to safe in our memory every thing that happen in the story, all the elements, etc. StoryBook helps us to make it easy. ... http://www.somgnu.org/storybook-writing-novels/ Despite the considerable advances that the free software has made in the last years in its «market share» in different fields in informatics, only in a few of this fields free software has the supremacy. One of these is the field of web servers. Sure enough, Apache, a free web server, ... http://www.somgnu.org/free-software-is-better-for-web-pages/