TimburyDotOrg is owned and operated by Timbury Computer Services. For over ten years, Timbury Computer Services has shown home, small business and corporate clients how to use Linux and Open Source software to maximize efficiency and lower costs.I think the most important thing to understand about Unity is that it is not primarily a program or a desktop. It is primarily a set of specifications which are implemented in different ways. The two most prominent implementations are Unity and Unity 2…
Wine application allows you to run Microsoft Windows applications on Linux, BSD, and MAC OS X. This week development release Wine 1.3.36 supports dynamic devices using UDisks utility which allows you to mount, unmount, format, and safely remove devices…
In Real View v. 20-20, an "actual damages" copyright infringement case, the Court held that the actual damages for an unauthorized download of a computer program was limited to the cost of an actual license fee
These are good times for users of RPM-based distributions. The two behemoths of RPM-land, OpenSUSE and Fedora, have just released new iterations and here we pit them against each other to see if they have what it takes to win the coveted real estate on…
It is essential to have a Web presence for your business, even if it’s no more than a simple information page. Your customers will look for a website to learn about your business before they look for a phone book or newspaper ad. You can publish and ma…
GIMX stands for Game Input MultipleXer or Game Input MatriX. GIMX allows us to control video game consoles with a Linux PC. It currently only works with the PS3, but the Xbox 360 is a also targeted. The application gets data from the PC peripherals (mi…
Welcome to the 180th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
Here is a little extension I made for Gnome Shell. It removes the Message tray (bottom bar). I recommend to use with gnome-shell-gnome2-notifications extension by rcmorano so that you can see all your notification icons in the top bar. Have fun.[b][url...
A PC World writer glosses over the naming conventions in Linux distros without going into the detail they rightfully deserve. So Larry the Free Software Guy gives her a hand, expanding on the how and why, from the perspective of digital anthropology, …
With the recent release of Bodhi Linux 1.3.0 I’ve had a few questions as to what our release cycle is exactly. I’d like to take a short moment today to clarify what exactly on current release schedule looks like.
