05.31.08

Links 31/05/2008: Free Software and GNU/Linux in Europe, Asia, Brazil

Posted in News Roundup at 3:34 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

New Life for an Old PC

If you and your friend do not want to spend a lot of money, putting the Linux operating system on the old PC is a much less expensive option. Many versions of Linux have a graphical point-and-click interface these days, but they still may have a learning curve for new users.
Subnotebook Blues: Lightweights in More Ways Than One
Voting 2.0, Part 2: The Open Source Proposition

As designed, however, the Ubuntu-based system is also voter-verifiable because the public can review in advance the screens they’ll see on Election Day, presented as pre-rendered picture files.
FR: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use

The discount agreement with Mandriva is valid for the next four years. How many of France’s postgraduate schools and universities today use GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva is not recorded, said Verez.
DE: Munich GNU/Linux desktop selects European Open Source licence

The LiMux developers are not changing licences of existing software, but they are releasing their own additional applications using the EUPL.
10 Reasons to Love Debian
[Full Circle Magazine:] Issue 13, out now

F/OSS

Firebird 2.1 in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
KDE starts testing version 4.1

Plasma has “matured” in version 4.1 compared to its initial introduction in KDE 4.0, the developers said in the announcement of the test version.
KDE releases first beta of new open source desktop
Sun pushing open source storage
Verific Design Automation OKs Synopsys’ VMM Open Source Release
Open Source is Entering the Enterprise Mainstream, Survey Shows

Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy “It’s easier to get forgiveness than permission” (not to mention “It’s easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget”).
Open Source CEO Shoot-Out at CIO Magazine
Cebu to host Asian open source summit in October

Public and private sector representatives from 21 countries will sign an open-source agreement at a regional summit in Cebu this October.
Brazilian government lists preferred Open Source applications

The “Instruction for Contracting IT Services” was published last week by the Secretary of Logistics and IT, part of the Ministry of Planning. The instruction is intended prevent equivalent software solutions from being developed several times.

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4 Comments

Uncle_Sam said,

June 1, 2008 at 11:08 am

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/232

Linus opinion about SUN. HAHAHA. Nice !!!
Roy Schestowitz said,

June 1, 2008 at 11:45 am

yes, a brilliant analysis. Sun has already bought Murdock, among others.
Uncle_Sam said,

June 1, 2008 at 12:21 pm

The article is old.
Date Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:45:46 -0700 (PDT)
Roy Schestowitz said,

June 1, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Yes, I saw that when it was new, IIRC. It received some attention at the time.

What Else is New

To Oracle, 'Community' Means Paying Oracle Customers

Oracle continues to extend only its own distribution of GNU/Linux (which is a ripoff of another), leaving everyone else out in the cold
Patent Policy Change a Victory for Large Corporations, Real Reform Remains Elusive

Patent extortion and litigation by proxy still permitted in the United States, even after the passage of a celebrated (by corporations) new bill
A Western Assault on GNU/Linux Security and Privacy

Governments (which are dominated by corporations) continue to make security hard as part of a campaign to spy on everyone under claims that it helps "national security" (control from above)
The Copyright Cartel Takes Over Schools to Deceive and Indoctrinate Children

Schools become a target of shameless copyright propaganda and promotion (advertising) of copyright boosters/maximalists
While Nokia Becomes Microsoft's Anti-Linux Litigation Front, Pre-Elop Nokia Revived, Jolla Sells All Available Phones

More of the old products of Nokia are brought back to life owing to former Nokia staff while existing Nokia staff, led by a Microsoft mole, continues to attack Linux-powered phones with patents
Custom-built Distributions and the 2,000+ GNU/Linux Distributions Listed by Softpedia

Customisation for different users, localisations, system ages etc. motivate plurality and diversity, which now yields thousands of packaged (for installation) GNU/Linux images
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Apple and Microsoft Claim Patent Tax on GNU/Linux, Red Hat's Response Too Weak

GNU/Linux is said to be among the targets for illegal extortion, but even self-professed backers of GNU/Linux aren't interested in addressing this problem
GNU is Not Linux: Richard Stallman Explains the Origins of GNU

Stallman tells Techrights/TechBytes lesser-known details about the birth of GNU in the early 1980s
Reminder to Corporate Press: PHP is Not Linux

Reporting on scare-mongering from Symantec mostly off target
Bill Gates Brings NSA-esque Surveillance to Children

Plutocrats are using US schools to indoctrinate, control, and even spy on tomorrow's adults
Culture of Violence a Disservice to National Security

How a culture of unprecedented violence leads to less security and more hostility towards the West
Anti-GNU/Linux Campaigns Are Not Left Behind at Microsoft, Only the Brands Change

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Raspberry Pi Represents the Rise of Freedom-Respecting Embedded GNU/Linux

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