If you want to figure out where all your bandwidth is getting used, without bothering with Networking, protocols and IP addresses try Etherape.

Etherape provides an easy to understand graph of all your network traffic in real time. This is how it works.

• It shows all your IPs/computers on your network.
• The more the traffic the thicker the connection gets between the IPs.
• It uses colour codes to denote the type of traffic on your network.

You can change to different network interfaces from capture interfaces. For best results run this on your internet gateway.

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Not sure, how many people already know or realise that most of the cellphones sold today are based on Open Source.

• Android is the fastest growing Operating System for phones is based on Linux.
• Nokia’s N900 platform runs Linux too.
• Palm’s (now acquired by HP) WebOS is based on Linux too.
• Symbian the most popular phone operating system is now Open Source.
• iPhone is based on a BSD kernel which is also Open Source.

Is there still room for proprietary operating systems?

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Buffalo Technology which makes good WiFi routers has decided to use open source firmware. Instead of their own firmware, they are going to be using DD-WRT instead.

DD-WRT is open source and has host of features, which are normally not found in WiFi Routers. DD-WRT also has open firmware for many other routers too. Her are some of the features:

• VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN)
• VLAN (tagging)
• Virtual AP (multi-SSIDs for multi-connection and security)
• RADIUS server
• Hot spot support
• Volume quotas
• IPv6 support
• Detailed monitoring and
• A host of other high-end features

Way to go Buffalo! Hope to see more hardware vendors using open firmware.

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McLaughlin, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and CIO of CNL Bank is  sending Ubuntu bootable live CD to its customesr, this disks will boot into Ubuntu, start Firefox and go straight to the banking website. He believes that desktop computers running Windows are highly vulnerable and this is the best option available.

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I have been using Thunderbird 2 for more than 2 years now, I recently upgraded to Thunderbird 3 and found it very well designed. Here is what I liked:

• Has an attachment reminder, so if you write “please see the attached… ” and then forgot to attach, it reminds you. Neat!
• Tabbed emails. Used to tabbed browsing? welcome to tabbed email. Allows you to open emails and mail folders into different tabs.
• Powerful search. You can type a search string, and it will find that string in inbox, sent box, subject. This is quite useful if you are looking for something but don’t know where it could be.
• It also has smart folders and and archive folders.
• Addon manager to manage all your addons.

Here is a complete list of features.

Ubuntu 10.04 scheduled to be released on April 29,2010 already bundles Thunderbird 3.

For Ubuntu 9.10, there are ready packages available. To Install Thunderbird 3 on Ubuntu 9.10 read this documentation on how to add the repository.

Use this link to Download Thunderbird  for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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After clocking 10,000 + Units of the Plug Computer, Marvell is releasing Plug Computer 3.0.

For those who came in late, Plug is a small lower powered computer which can do those nightly downloads, uploads, data captures, image captures from web cams and more.

What new?

• 2.0 GHz
• 1 Watt power consumption
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Wifi
• Bluetooh
• SD Card
• eSata
• Runs Linux

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WebmasterPro has an interesting way to calculate the percentage of people using OpenOffice.

Poland & Czech Republic lead in OO usage and have 22 percent people using OpenOffice.

Germany 21 percent and France 19.

UK/US at 9 percent.

India is low at 5 percent.

See more at WebMasterPro.

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What common between Avtar, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Four, X-Men, i-Robot? They were all created at Weta Digital in New Zealand.

Now some vital stats:

• 2 Petabyte disk array
• 10gbps networking
• 10 TB Ram
• 35,000 cores (4,000+ blades)
• Ubuntu

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After Google Android, now Symbian has decided to go Open Source. Since Android is Linux based and this had a good chance of Linux becoming the de facto operating system in Cellphone too. So Symbian reacted and released all its source code too, in the hope that their customers don’t switch to Linux and they are able to retain their 46 percent market share in smartphones.

It remains to be seen weather cellphone manufacturers decide to use Linux or continue to use Symbian, however this is great news as Symbian as this will only improve Symbian. Expect stability improvements, as more people can now see the bugs.

Get the code, if you interested. And yes you can use the code to build your own phone without any licensing costs.

Is there still a market for proprietary operating systems? The game is changing and this will create enough competition for Apple/Microsoft to release their code. Show me the code!

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This is awesome News.

Skype is planning to open source its Linux client.

The current Skype client on Linux is functional but buggy and it lags behind the Windows version in terms of features.

Now if Skype opens up, it will make the client development go faster, people will be able to fix bugs faster and add more feature.

Waiting for this to happen.

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I installed AWN Manager on Ubuntu, following the instructions here.

Here is what I liked.

• It looks cool
• Can auto-hide, giving you more desktop real estate.
• Has cool applets like fortune which I enjoy reading and reminds me of bash days.

What I didn’t like

• It crops up when you don’t want it to.
• A little buggy, it doesn’t show when you want it to! and sometimes the icons goes missing, a refreshing of the screen fixing this issue.

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I compared the hardware requirements of a popular Linux Desktop: Ubuntu 9.10 with Windows 7  both of which were released last month.

Ubuntu 9.10 remained a modest 265MB memory with 300MHz computer. Also Ubuntu can run on lesser hardware as well, if you have 128MB Memory, you can still use Xbuntu (a variant), or if you have 64 MB you can use LTSP and run Ubuntu off a central server.

Now Windows 7 demands 1GB Memory with 1GHz computer.

While Windows 7 required 16GB of space to install, Ubuntu can be installed on on less than 4 GB of space.

Some people may argue that hardware is getting cheaper by the day, however there are millions of PCs around in the world which won’t be able to run Windows without an upgrade. If the use Ubuntu, they will save on upgrade costs and hurt the environment less by not having to throw away their old computer.

Some interesting findings: Ubuntu’s hardware requirements has not changed in the last 8 releases over the last 4 years.

Even thought Vista Basic  claimed that it requires 512MB RAM and Vista Business claimed 1GB. Both crawled on 1GB of RAM and required 2GB to run effectively with 15GB of disk space.

Sources:

Ubuntu Release Notes
Windows 7 System requirements.
Windows Vista System requirements.

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What’s a plug computer?

• Small ARM Based Computer
• Runs Linux and other OS: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and FreeBSD
• Consumes just 2  watts of power
• Can be kept always on to run those long nightly downloads such as Torrents
• Can you used for any application that requires an always on computer
• Access through browser or shell
• Has USB, Ethernet and SD Card.
• And yes costs $99

More photos

For more information check plugcomputer.org

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Forget what Microsoft wants you to believe, Linux is a success on Netbooks. The cat is out of the bag.

ABI Research is projecting that in 2009 Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook sales, far higher than the seven percent figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report. ABI also estimates that Linux will overtake Windows on netbooks by 2013, largely due to sales in less-developed countries.

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Ubuntu that it launched last week, to penetrate markets such as India where an impending launch of third generation (3G) services is expected to make cloud computing accessible to individual users.

I have been quoted in this article in The Mint:

Prakash Advani, partner and manager, central Asia, at Canonical, said once broadband connectivity improves through 3G networks, Ubuntu’s built-in cloud capabilities will popularize it among computer users as well as businesses.

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IT budget cuts, an improved ecosystem and more maturity have boosted the demand for open source applications in Indian enterprises.

Read this article.

I have been quoted in this article.

It’s benefits like these that have changed the attitude of enterprises towards open source solutions. Opines Prakash Advani, Partner Manager for Central Asia, Canonical, “Initially there was a certain amount of resistance (towards open source) due to user resistance to change, but this has changed in the recent past.”

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Dr. Nagarjuna, Founder of Gnowledge and Director FSF India, shared this very interesting app.

It creates a dependency map for any Debian package.

It can also create similar maps for any concept not just packages..

Now this opens up a whole new opportunities to graphically represent many ideas and concepts. Ff someone wants to track the email workflows within the organisation, this can be used. For example if A sent an email to B and B forwarded to C &D, this application can show A how the email is flowing within the organisation and show roadblocks.

And yes this app is Open Source/Free Software, released under GPL.

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Prof. Rahul De of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has carried out this study.

Economic Impact of Free and Open Source Software – A Study in India.

The study has reached out different organisations and has documented to total amount that they saved after moving to Free and Open Source software.

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