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'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.
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.
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."
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.