08.05.08
Links 05/08/2008: GNU/Linux in Nicaragua, KDE in the Press
GNU/Linux
- KDE 4.1 in the press
- Flying on the wings of freedom
Guardabarranco is the national bird of Nicaragua. It’s also the name of a public school that migrated to GNU/Linux back in 2005.
- HP Expands App Bodyguard Service
HP’s Serviceguard for Linux will now support Novell Suse and Red Hat Xen VMs, the company announced. The computer maker has also outlined its Strategy Workshop and Migration Assessment Services, aimed at helping enterprises roll out OpenLDAP directories.
- Xirrus Releases Open Source Wi-Fi Monitor Tool for Linux
- Double-Take(R) Software Expands Workload Protection Solutions with the Addition of Double-Take(R) for Linux
- PartedMagic: An Open Source Alternative for Partition Editing
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Mockup Designs
Canonical is planning to surpass Mac OS X in the next coming two years but without a revolutionary change in the Ubuntu GUI it is close to impossible. Will has made a good attempt by designing some of the best mockups of Intrepid Ibex ever and with such a design, Ubuntu can easily take over Mac OS X soon enough.
Take a loot at some of the Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Mockup Design created by Will.
- Canonical To Offer Alfresco Labs Pre-Packaged Within Ubuntu Distribution
- Prentice Hall and SAMS Launch New Ubuntu Linux Books at LinuxWorld 2008
Red Hat
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Receives Department of Defense IPv6 Certification
- Varonis Extends DatAdvantage Support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 Environments
F/OSS
- RadeonHD CS Driver Gets EXA Love
- PL: Ministry of Education recommends Open Source
The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source.
The Ministry recommended in a statement that schools and universities use OpenOffice. The application suite is sufficiently mature and advanced to be used for teaching and for office use in education and science institutes. “OpenOffice can successfully substitute proprietary applications and will result in significant savings on licenses.”
- Announcing the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference Beijing 2008
- A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community
- Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008
- Koblo Announces Web 2.0 Community Enabled Open Source DAW
Health
- FOSS app eases the pain for San Diego community clinic
Bringas eventually wants to make the entire clinic operate only on open source software. At the moment the staff uses OpenOffice.org, but he also has plans to replace all of the Windows terminals with desktop Linux machines. He continues to search for an outside investor to fund the project.
- Akaza Research Announces Plans for Releasing New Version of OpenClinica Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Software
