Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

I have very mixed feelings about this:
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, is today announcing an affinity Visa Platinum credit card for people who want to contribute to advancing the OS through the organization’s initiatives. Reading the press release announcing the new credit card made me raise my [...]

I’ve never cared too much for Gimp’s interface. This looks like it might be a nice alternative. Or try Seashore.

I have been hacking the Gimp for weeks and it’s finally ready. GIMPshop for Mac OS X 10.3 is now available! 40 MB Download. Note: You will need to download and install Apple’s X11 in order [...]

Sunbird, the Mozilla folks calendar application, is now out. Note that it’s .2 so it’s still early in the applications development but I saw an even earlier version and it seemed to work pretty well. Check it out if you need a good calendar application.
The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component. [...]

Interesting thread over at Slashdot, started by a Linux user interested in running BSD.
We got a similar question over at the ET forum not too long ago. Check it out if you’re interested in running BSD but haven’t gotten your feet wet with it before.

Well this is good news for people who have been asking for database in OpenOffice.org.
Soon OpenOffice.org will introduce a database application to its office suite. For the last couple of years, OpenOffice.org has been developing its word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation manager programs to compete head-to-head with similar software products such as MS Office, [...]

Check it out. A good alternative to existing antivirus software and it also has GUI front ends for Mac, Windows and Linux. I’m usually in Linux or, these days, in Mac OS X so I don’t worry too much about viruses. But it’s still nice to know there’s an open source solution if I decide [...]

It’s actually ten ways to pay back the open source community but I like my title better.

You run GNU/Linux. You play games on it, surf the Net, write documents, and edit pictures, and all for free, thanks to the multitudes around the world who contribute to the open source movement. Now it’s payback [...]

Good review of the distrowatch site. If you need information on a particular linux distribution, distrowatch is an invaluable resource. Check it out if you haven’t visited it already.

Very cool.
:mrgreen:

A beta of the Nvu web authoring system is available. You can download it here for Mac OSX, Windows or Linux.
Nvu is the open source counterpart to Microsoft Front Page, Dreamweaver, etc. If you want an easy way to create web pages/sites, you might want to check out Nvu. You can also get support in [...]