Want to impress your friends with Linux? Use 3D-Desktop!

3D-Desktop is pager (desktop switcher) that gives you a very impressive 3D overview of all your desktops and also allows you to switch between your desktops in a very fancy 3D box type way.

ONE source, MULTI targets

Txt2tags is a document generator. It reads a text file with minimal markup as **bold** and //italic// and converts it to the following formats:

- HTML document
- XHTML document
- SGML document
- LaTeX document
- UNIX man page
- MoinMoin page
- Magic Point presentation (mgp)
- PageMaker 6.0 document

Formatting documents with OpenOffice.org Writer macros

OpenOffice.org uses StarBasic as its macro language. I won't go into details of the language itself, but the examples given here should be easy to understand if you have some programming experience. You can find tutorials and general information regarding StarBasic macros, along with information on OpenOffice.org scripting, elsewhere on the Web.

Publishing XML Documents in PDF and HTML with Cocoon

Cocoon can create result documents in a variety of formats, including HTML and PDF. Cocoon's popularity reflects that of the Adobe's PDF format, which most vendors prefer for e-mailing richly formatted printable documents and reports. Cocoon converts not only text content, but also graphs and images. This article focuses on using Cocoon to dynamically generate HTML and PDF.

ObjectWeb: Open Source Middleware

ObjectWeb is an international consortium fostering the development of open-source middleware for cutting-edge applications: EAI, e-business, clustering, grid computing, managed services and more.

Collaborative Document Editing with svk

svk (http://svk.elixus.org/) is a new version control system that is easy to use for maintaining translated versions of documents. After all, it's pointless to use software that brings you more overhead than the time you can save.

The eric3 Python IDE

eric3 is a full featured Python IDE that is written in PyQt using the QScintilla editor widget. For information on PyQt and QScintilla please see Riverbank Computing. Please note, that eric3 needs Qt 3.1 or newer, PyQt 3.6 or newer (not PyQt 3.9) and QScintilla 1.0 or newer.
Note: In order to use eric3 under Win... operating systems you need a commercial or educational license of Qt 3.1 (or newer) from Trolltech and the corresponding license of PyQt (which includes QScintilla) from Riverbank.

XML & DocBook: Structured Technical Documentation Authoring

...DocBook is an XML Document Type Definition or DTD. It is a subset of XML particularly suited for but not limited to the creation of books and papers about computer hardware and software. DocBook is well-known in the Linux community and is used by many publishing companies and open-source development projects. Most tools are developed for the DocBook DTD and are included in most Linux distributions. This allows for sending raw data that can be processed at the receiver's end--wherever applications able to interpret XML directly are available...

JAYA123: THE SMALL BUSINESS WEB-BASED SOLUTION

JAYA is a web-based enterprise application that allows you to run your business from anywhere in the world. It does all your invoicing, order entry, inventory, billing, financials, customer management, reporting, and more.

Jaya123, using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) components.

Orbeon Integration Suite: Open Source Business Integration

The Orbeon Integration Suite (OIS) open source project offers a modular, enterprise-ready, ESB-based business integration software suite that provides a viable option to commercial ESB products. Some components of the suite are being developed by the OIS community, while others are being sourced from complimentary open source projects.

Similar to the JBoss J2EE application server, the OIS project uses the commercial and community friendly LGPL open source license. For more information on the LGPL, the JBoss Group does a very nice job of describing the features and rationale behind for choosing it, which we are pleased to JBoss reference here.