Think! Open Source

Full Circle Magazine is a monthly which represents Ubuntu and its variants. Its main aim is to provide tutorials, software reviews and open source world's news etc. It is being published from last 18 months and now, obviously, the issue 18 is out. The title can be seen below with some highlights of this issues.
This month:

* Command and Conquer - Package Management.
* How-To : Program in C - Part 2, Secure Network Drive
Using GIMP - Part 7 and Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
* My Story - Ubuntu And Me
* Review - Urban Terror
* My Opinion - How Many Distros Is Too Many?
* MOTU Interview - Stephan Hermann
* Top 5 - Mind Mapping Applications

Grab Issue 18!

Nexenta is another OS. You'll say, ohh, again an Operating System. Well this is something little different. It is a blend of to popular and opensource OS to get the usability and power of both. Rather it can also be said that it is Debian/Ubuntu with a little variation at CLI. I mean the Kernel is from Open Solaris the Sun Microsystems' sponsored Unix OS, which is opensource as well, and the applications and packages from popular Linux distributions i.e. Debian or Ubuntu. Now the thing which comes out is called Nexenta.
It has packaging system based on APT, Advanced packaging Tool. So the repositories from Debian and Ubuntu can easily be used with it. The documentation part is pretty much complete with usual topics a Linux user can require to use a new OS. Just download its cd images from the download page, burn and install them. Well it is not for new commers it is for the people who always ready to take risks.

TeeWorlds is a cool game for Linux, Windows and Mac. Obviously it is open source and freely available. The only screenshot tells that it is a jumping game. The download page has binaries and sources for Windows, Linux and Mac. Its about page is pretty full with developers and contributors which indicates that it is an active project. So give it a try and enjoy life with open source.

Ruby on Rails is a popular web development framework which is based on famous language Ruby. Indeed the creation of this framework granted a new life to the Ruby language on the web. The Ruby on Rails 2.2 has be released on 21, November and the team has announced a new feature called internationalization. The simple meaning of this feature is to make Ruby on Rails caable to display languages other than English. The Ruby on Rails creator, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote in his blog post that now Ruby on Rails has a very simple framework to deal with UTF8 and lcalizeable texts etc.

FreeBSD is a popular open source OS like linux. It has many variants. The thing which distinguishes it from linux is the license under which it comes. You can use FreeBSD to create your own closed source commercial project, software or OS. While GPL v. 2, the lisence under which linux kernel is distributed requires that you should open source all the modifications and original code as it was open source before.
FreeBSD has launched its official community forums, it would be a good thing for FreeBSD community now, to build and to cooperate with each other will be much easier and productive.

Adobe has released it flash player's next 64 bit version for an alpha stage on linux. Ok this statement looks just fine with out any amazement but the fact is this, Adobe released this pre alpha version only for linux. Astonished? Adobe is very much sympathetic on linux users since MS Silver Light and Java FX, the competators to Adobe Flash entered the scene. I can still remember the time when Adobe refused to relsease a flash player version 9 for linux while it was available for windows and other platforms.
Anyhows time doesn't remain equal, there are ups and downs and perhaps this is a down of Adobe and up of opensource world, they are benefitted although all this is due to competation with other corporate and technology giants.

Mandriva has released the XFCE version of its OS. XFCE is a popular linux desktop environment which targets old pcs with less capacity and power in terms of Ram, Processor and Space on Hard drive. Most linux distros try to release their remixes with Gnome, KDE and XFCE. But the latter one is not to much highlighted. Ubuntu has a similiar version called Xubuntu but these XFCE powered distros are less frequently used as compared to normal distros composed of Gnome or KDE.