SITA has chosen Ubuntu for its desktop operating environment. Running on top of this will be open office, as well as several other FOSS applications, aimed at improving SITA's collaborative and engagement environments.
Brazilian ICT companies are keen to capitalise on the South African government's latest e-government push.
Tirupur IT Association (TITA) recently conducted a two-day training programming on Linux desktop and server administration for dealers in Tirupur.
Terra Soft Solutions announced a development workstation billed as the heir to the Apple PowerMac G5 Quad, except more open. The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) PowerStation offers four PowerPC cores clocked at 2.5GHz, up to 32GB RAM, and four bays for serially attached SCSI (SAS) drives.
Pricing for the IL1, which will be available by the end of the month, is $389 for the Windows version and $349 for the Linux model. The device comes with a one-year warranty.
The Linux version of the Asus Eee PC 900, tested here, is probably the better option for customers who only want to use the machines for what they are best at – surfing the web, e-mail and word processing.
He has founded Sugar Labs, a foundation that seeks to advance development of Sugar, the user interface originally designed for OLPC.
Microsoft spent the 1990s ignoring and dismissing competitive threats from Linux. Apparently, Cisco is determined to avoid that mistake in the modern age of Web 2.0 and open applications.
One of the most often mentioned concerns at the KDE booth at LinuxTag was the question if Plasma would force the user to have a black panel. While we did have a second machine showing another theme to resolve all doubts it showed that not all users now yet the power of Plasma theming.
A wordprocessor-like ruler for repositioning and resizing the Plasma panel. Scripting support re-enabled in KRunner. More developments in the NetworkManager Plasma applet. Initial work to allow closer interaction of Plasma with KNotify's popups. Work on theming, Magnatune membership support, and the ClassicView in Amarok 2.0.
To celebrate the release of KDE 4, the KDE French contributors and the Toulibre LUG organised a two-day event on January 25th and 26th 2008 in Toulouse, France.
Lakin Hospital, a long-term nursing facility operated by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, has adopted an open source electronic health record.
Blocking all newsgroups does appear to be a broad approach to a problem involving a minority of such groups. As with the Internet in general, not everything in Usenet poses a threat. But no one wants to be tainted with even a suggestion of being soft on child porn, hence the rush to apply censorship with a sweeping axe rather than a skillfully-wielded scalpel.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of an animal rights group after its video critiques of animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube because of false copyright claims.