Many of these services present new opportunities to make not only work but also daily personal chores easier. via Linux Today

Watching an extended flame war between Richard Stallman and Theo de Raadt is an interesting experience. The realization that one can sit back and watch without having to really care about the result brings a sense of profound tranquility and relief. Along the way, one gets to learn things like how mean Theo can be, or that Richard does not use a web browser. It all seems like good fun. Even so, when the discussion reaches levels like this:..

I’ve known Bruce Steinberg since we met online, so long ago I don’t remember. I’m guessing it might have been back when SCO was still a leading Unix company and Bruce was its VP of Marketing Communications. Or it might have been through Usenet, or some other pre-Web online service.

In this article I’ve selected what I consider to be some of the past year’s outstanding achievements in the world of Linux music and sound software. It’s not really a “Best Of 2007″, it’s just my personal choices for what I found most interesting and significant in the past year.

From KDE to the OOXML controversy to video drivers: a gaze into the crystal ball for free (as in free speech, not as in free beer) software.

Here’s a walkthrough gallery of screenshots from Dyne:bolic 2.5.2, codenamed Dhoruba, released one month ago.

When you buy a new PC or a MAC you’ll get a fully localized copy of Windows/MacOS in your language but what about Linux distributions? If Linux vendors want to penetrate the newbies market, they must provide fully localized ISO images, there are no excuses. This is my point of view.

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TimeTrex is a complete Web-based payroll and time management suite that offers employee scheduling, time and attendance (timeclock, timesheet/timecard), job costing, invoicing, and payroll in a single package. Employees can use Web browsers or timeclocks to track their time and attendance, check their own timesheet for missed punches, and respond to flagged timesheet errors. Payroll administrators can quickly generate paystubs and process payroll based off timesheet information or export timesheet data to other applications.

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License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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Changes:
This release contains additional overtime policies (consecutive days worked) and premium policies (hours worked without breaks) to better support California labor laws. It also contains hour based accrual policies, improved employee exception handling, email notifications, advanced schedule reporting, tax forms, 2008 tax formulas/tables, and custom company logos.

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Dada Mail is an intuitive, Web-based email list
management system, which runs on any hosting
account that can execute custom CGI scripts. Dada
Mail is also a conceptual art project. Dada Mail
handles double opt-in/opt-out subscriptions, and
can send complex announce-only and/or discussion
mailing list messages. It also provides archiving,
viewing, searching, resending, and syndicating
(through RSS or Atom) sent messages. Dada Mail
produces valid XHTML and sticks to best practices
when creating email messages.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Along with improved support for multiple subscriber fields, first started with the last release, this release features a completely rewritten email templating system, which should allow you to do any sort of mail merging you so fancy. The email templating system is based on HTML::Template, which is familiar, tested, and simple for geeks and designers alike.

ttyrpld is a multi-OS kernel-level TTY key logger
and screen logger with (a)synchronous replay
support. It runs on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release changes the packet format to be compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and adds a converter for old log files.