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Stories · 4

  1. First Impressions of Sabayon Linux

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the kicking-the-tires dept. · 109 comments
    chix4mat writes "Techgage takes a first look at the upcoming Gentoo-based distro 'Sabayon.' It's a feature-filled Live DVD that allows you to install within minutes. Users are treated to a Vista-esque KDE theme, with transparent windows The greatest feature of the distro is the hardware and software support. DVD movies work from the start in addition to audio, bluetooth, WiFi and even XGL."

  2. Making an Independent Web Site?

    Ask · Internet · · posted by Cliff · from the whatever-happened-to-the-free-internet dept. · 467 comments
    KinsmanCa asks: "Lately I've been thinking of opening a website - but looking over what web hosts provide, I don't like the idea of having a bandwith limit of so many gigabtyes per month, or having to be mindful of what the provider considers community standards. How can I create a website that's as independent as possible? By which I mean, pay as few bills to as few people as possible, and have to answer to nobody but the law itself as far as my content goes? Assume that I'm willing to pay a lot as far as hardware or initial setup costs go. How much autonomy can a regular person get on the Internet?"

  3. QNX Now Free For Non-Commercial use

    Tech · Unix · · posted by timothy · from the groaning-bandwagon dept. · 187 comments
    Glytch writes: "QNX is now offering the QNX Realtime Platform operating system for free for non-commercial use for x86 machines. Available installation methods include a Windows 9x executable, an ISO image, and a QNX4 installation archive. Pretty much like Be, Inc. did with BeOS 5." And like Sun has with Solaris, to boot. Would it be that surprising to find Windows soon available "for non-commericial use"?

  4. Shared Whiteboard Using GTK Or QT?

    Ask · Graphics · · posted by Cliff · from the building-the-virtual-office dept. · 16 comments
    Matts writes: "I work from home with a number of people from the U.S. (I live in Scotland). One thing I miss about an office is the ability to discuss things over a whiteboard. So I've been looking all over the Net for some sort of shared whiteboard facility so that I can work very quickly with short bits of text and/or drawings. The text bit is very important there. Unfortunately the only products I've found are either old and require Motif and other huge libraries, commercial, or written in Java." Many of us communicate best when we can draw pictures, and being able to scribble and chart over the Net using such an app is an extraordinary idea, especially for those of us working in the "Virtual Office".

    "Other ones I've found are an add-on for mIRC (which I didn't even look at because I don't use Windows), and one called wb which appears to be part of the Mbone tools, which I couldn't find the source for and the binary for Linux wouldn't run. What I'm really after is something for either the Gnome or KDE toolkits, although straight GTK+ or QT would be just fine. Surely someone in the open source community has thought of this before - these were hot ideas when I was in university and everyone was building one!"