Starting A New Year Off Right!

Congratulations to Creative Commons on this New Year's Eve! They have succeeded in not only reaching their fund-raising goal but generously surpassed it:

Certainly nice to see this support from the community at large--all of us who benefit the most from their worthwhile efforts. Now, hopefully the IRS will leave them alone...

Wishing a Happy & Safe New Year to all!

TurboCASH For Linux?

A popular Windows accounting package looks to move into the Linux space. This is an excellent move since it appears that there is currently no real alternative option (maybe GNUCash?) available for SME Linux users at the moment...

Software developer, Philip Copeman, is looking for programmers to build a Linux version of the popular windows-based open source accounting software, Turbocash... The Linux version of Turbocash will have to be re-developed from the ground up... "The database will most likely be Firebird or MySQL," says Copeman. [He] says there are no real Linux competitors in the SME (small to medium-sized enterprise) end of the [accounting software] market... "We estimate that a million users would change to a Linux system if they had the choice." --TECTONIC

Comparison chart can be found here.
Find screenshots of TurboCASH here.
Download TurboCASH for Win32 here.

Tags: TurboCASH opensource FOSS GNU/Linux Linux Windows accounting programming

How Google Does It

Google's Newsletter for Librarians for December 2005 provides answers to the query, 'How does Google collect and rank results?'

One of the most common questions... is "How does Google decide what result goes at the top of the list?" Here, from quality engineer Matt Cutts, is a quick primer on how we crawl and index the web and then rank search results...

Tags: Google

Linux: rBuilder Online

You can use rBuilder Online to create a Linux distribution that meets your specific needs, or to find an existing distribution that is just right for you.

Found this on Digg today. I haven't tried it yet but it's definitely on the TO-DO list! If it lives up to it's claims this is going to be one popular utility!

Use rBuilder Online's collaborative development environment to package open source software and produce complete distributions.

Check it out at rBuilder Online or use the CoralCDN link as the main site seems to be a little busy at the moment.

I can just see it! My own fully customized Linux Audio Workstation distro! :-)

Tags: rBuilder Linux GNU distro