Tag: open source

Well, it has been nearly a month and a half since I started as IT Director at Horizon. For us, it is crunch time in choosing what systems to use at our school. The…

A friend from a Western company is looking for a Vietnamese guy experienced in using Ubuntu Linux. Please see the brief job description below: To prepare an Ubuntu…

Today I attended the Saigon Software Freedom Day 2009 organized by the Saigon Linux User Group at the University of Education in District 5. This is actually my first…

Well, I just completed week 3 at the American International School here in Saigon, Vietnam. I signed a one year contract to teach 2 ICT classes part-time for about 40…

Well, if you really want to fall in love with a Linux distro, you got to try Pardus 2009 International. You got to give it to the Turks, they created the next great…

Some very interesting Linux videos posted at TuxMachines. Linux - Everything is possible Worm Detected

Hacao, the Linux-based Vietnamese IT company, did it again. The good news, they have successfully created a Vietnamese language netbook based on Linux. The bad news…

This is a video that Linux and Windows lovers will like :-) It can be viewed below or at this link:

With just less than one month left of class, I decided to see if my 8th Grade students at the American International School in Saigon would be interested in learning…

I have been planning to move to Funtoo Linux, a derivative of Gentoo Linux, for over a month now. The install is basically the same as a Gentoo installation. The only…

I have been wanting to try out Sidux Linux for a long time. I have tested it but since it only comes with the KDE and XFCE window managers, I never used beyond the…

Vietnam joined the Asianux open source alliance last week. This is definitely good news if you are a fan of open source software in Vietnam such as myself. From TMCnet…

It all started at the beginning of last week. I wanted my American International School 11th and 12th Grade ICT students to start using Ubuntu Linux on their…

As the majority of BSD/Linux users, I use X.org for my X Window System. I have a preference to edit my own xorg.conf to ensure that X runs properly on any of my system…

I just converted from Portage to Paludis about 30 minutes ago on my Gentoo system. Paludis is an alternative package manager for the very buggy Portage maintained by…

Yesterday I gave a presentation about Open Source Business Applications for Vina Consulting at the Saigon Times Club. We just had a short time to prepare for it but I…

For some odd reason, many Linux users have been configuring their Linux desktops to look exactly like Apple's Leopard desktop. After reading this tutorial…

Well, last weekend my Linux Lab at the American International School has been redesigned. It is now less cluttered and utilizes the U-shaped design which I prefer for a…

Just flashed the latest Nokia OS2008 image on my N800 Internet Tablet. This is supposed to be the last image N800/810 users will need to flash on their tablets. Future…

This is big news if you are a fan of Gentoo Linux such as I am. Though I have used Unix and Linux for about a year before trying Gentoo back in September, 2003, Gentoo…