Category Archives: Open-Source

I don’t have the details to hand, but it was reported in the Evening Echo and Red FM yesterday, Cork City and County Councils are going to move (all?) their desktop systems to Linux and Open Office over the next few years. I meant to buy the paper but of course it completely slipped my mind. There’s a pdf of yesterday’s Echo on their website but it’ll disappear later today or tomorrow I guess.
The Council expects to save millions of Euro over the next few years but beyond that I don’t have any online links. Can anyone find some information on this?

This article is a good summary of keynotes at OScon.

Many 2.5/2.6 changes were put to the test recently when Linus Torvalds announced his move to the Open Source Development Network and the OSDN site was slashdotted. Thanks to improved efficiency in the kernel (especially the virtual memory management system), the system running their Web site stayed up through the onslaught…
But there is no doubt that Apple computers play a critical role at this conference. In fact, it’s loaded with Apple lovers. I haven’t tried to do an official count, but the silver laptops are gleaming out all over the place.

Via slashdot comes this short article on developing open source software. I have to say I agree with a lot of what this guy says..

FileShack.com has the source code for the game Duke Nukem! I saw this on Linux Games but thought it was an April Fools! I’d love to play Duke Nukem again!

Ken Guest started a conversation on IRC asking about an open source Goldmine clone. I’ve thought about this a lot in the past and even started on a web based interface to one, had the pop3 reading done, but then I lost interest in the project and the code has disappeared somewhere!
I searched and found this link directory listing lots of stuff.
I had the idea of using standard mail clients, along with some web interface to a db of users and email history. By using formail to capture outgoing mail, and procmail to capture incoming mail we could stuff that information into a database, maybe use LDAP as an address directory, or simply have “mailto” links on the web interface. The biggest problem is moving the email content from the web interface to the mail client as part of a reply..
This only addresses one aspect of CRM software of course, but it’s the most obvious one I can think of.

Here’s an excellent interview covering so much stuff I don’t even know where to start when trying to describe it!

A look at setting up an open source mailserver. He picked Sendmail. Must take a look at smtp_auth for my own use.