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LINUX PICKS AND PANS
Need a Great Archive Utility? Give PeaZip a Chance

Wednesday - April 10, 2013

PeaZip is a handy utility for reducing the size of large files and archiving different files into one big container. Unlike most file compression tools for Linux, PeaZip's user interface makes it easy to manage. When it comes to zipping and unzipping files, simplicity counts for most everything. PeaZip is a cross platform file and archive manager available for Linux, BSD and Windows platforms. This utility gives you a complete Zipping system. Why use a top-notch file archiver? [More...]

ANALYSIS
OpenStack Gives the Open Source Cloud a Lift

Tuesday - April 9, 2013

Since its start in the summer of 2010, the OpenStack open source cloud computing project has been the subject of a lot of hype. Today, the technology, backers and users of OpenStack are giving substance to all of that sizzle, and skepticism is giving way to service provider and enterprise use cases across the globe. OpenStack is relatively immature and still requires a high degree of technical aptitude to deploy, but its community continues to grow. [More...]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Morphlabs' Yoram Heller: Gearing Up to Beat Amazon

Tuesday - April 9, 2013

Open source technology is central to Morphlabs' business model. The company, launched in 2007 with Yoram Heller as a cofounder, builds fully modular, scalable public and private cloud products. It takes open source software and designs architecture to run on specific hardware. Building its products on top of open source software is the main innovation that allows Morphlabs to dramatically lower the barrier of entry to cloud computing. [More...]

LINUX BLOG SAFARI
Facebook Home: Brilliant Stroke or Desperate Measure?

Monday - April 8, 2013

Political and economic news from around the globe may bombard us with annoying regularity here in the tech community, and as most of us know, the news is almost always bad. That, of course, is why it's such a good thing we have Facebook to filter out what we don't want to hear. It's also why we all waited in rapt attention for the Facebook Home announcement. [More...]

News360: Getting to Know You at a Snail's Pace

Friday - April 5, 2013

News360, a learning news aggregator for Android, has recently been updated. I decided to take a look. Uniquely, this app uses a thumbs-up button style of interaction in combination with collected statistics to provide stories that are supposed to be customized for you. [More...]

LINUX BLOG SAFARI
Sorting Out the Linux Desktop Mess

Thursday - April 4, 2013

It seems fair to say that every tech community out there has its own hot-button issues that are pretty much guaranteed to get conversations flowing and blood pressures rising. The Linux community, of course, is no exception, and it's difficult to imagine a better illustration than a debate that came up recently. "The Linux Desktop Mess" is the title of the post that got the discussion going. [More...]

LINUX PICKS AND PANS
Chakra: A Simple, Strong Energy Center for Your Desktop

Wednesday - April 3, 2013

Chakra is an unusual Linux distro that rethinks what the Linux desktop should be. It gives users the tools to do it their way. This interesting approach to learning what makes Linux tick, however, is not a good starting point for first-time Linux users. I was intrigued with Chakra's ground-up reconstruction and the notion that developers need to keep it simple, stupid (also known as the KISS Principle.) [More...]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Kona's Scott DeFusco: Open Source Advocate in a Closed Source Firm

Tuesday - April 2, 2013

Kona, an innovative social networking platform for businesses and organizations, was launched in late 2012. It grew out of a vision developer Scott DeFusco had for a way to solve communications issues shared in peoples' business and social lives. DeFusco and Kona cofounder Jeff Eckerle developed the new approach to online collaboration as an internal start-up within Deltek, an enterprise resource planning vendor [More...]

LINUX BLOG SAFARI
Microsoft's Pain in Spain Lies Mainly in Secure Boot

Monday - April 1, 2013

It's not exactly any secret that Microsoft has had its fair share of legal troubles over the years, many of them arising from its pesky little habit of finding ways to shut the door on competitors. So when Secure Boot came along in Windows 8, many considered it just a matter of time before a formal complaint was made. [More...]

ANDROID APP REVIEW
Relax and Sleep: Whatever Floats Your Dream Boat

Friday - March 29, 2013

Relax and Sleep Plus lets you choose and play ambient sounds that might help you sleep. I tried this app during a grueling jet-lagged visit to London. The UK has a seven-hour time difference from Los Angeles, which is my home base, so my day started there just as I normally would be going to sleep. For me, the net result of the time change was sleeplessness in the dead of local night. [More...]

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