The Servico Federal de Processamento de Dados (SERPRO), (a US$ 1 billion annual revenue Brazilian government owned IT enterprise), announced during the Debian Day Brasil 2008 Porto Alegre that it has selected Debian GNU/Linux as the preferred distribution for its hundreds of GNU/Linux development and production servers.
This means the LiMo platform is also based on the Linux kernel, which has significant development resources behind it. “Strong support from mobile operators shows the popularity of the LiMo platform; however, Android’s momentum in the developer community, backed by Google’s brand strength, should almost guarantee its acceptance,” comments Sravan Kundojjala, an analyst at market watcher Strategy Analytics.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administrators, handling software packages, administering policies and managing networks all are going to get easier. At least that's the promise.
Bug Labs will ship its tiny, open-source ARM11-powered BugBase and three add-on modules next week, and will soon switch to Poky Linux. Meanwhile, a recent review finds the hackable Linux-based platform to be intriguing fun for "bleeding edge developers," but too "flaky" for average consumers.
Four of this month's top hosting companies run Linux on their main sites, including Hurricane Electric.
OpenICE.org, a community of engineers, hackers, and users, launches today going up against two giants in the mobile computing industry, Microsoft, with its Sync product and Intel with their moblin based car infotainment platform.
Sabayon has been an interesting distribution in the past. Their emphasis on including games, 3D drivers, and multimedia support out of the box has endeared them to me.
ManageMyBox manages Linux-based servers, with a team of RedHat Linux Certified technicians.
The launch widens the real-time collaborative technology’s support to the increasingly popular Linux platform as well as Windows and Mac.
The SystemRescueCd team has announced today the latest version of their Linux system. This new release brings important new features, such as advanced customization and kernel recompilation, as well as updates to some of the already present applications.
Yesterday we watched “Berlin am Meer” - not a world-changing, but nice movie filmed in Berlin. As in all other modern movies which happen to be shot in Berlin, I enjoy the sensation of recognising where the scene happened (”Nice, that’s like 5 minutes from here.” or “We’ve been at that spot last weekend.”) The movie did not disappoint us in that regard, lots of scenes were shot in Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain and Treptow.
In addition to that, I was pleased to see they used Ubuntu in a short scene. (The supposed best friend of the leading character copies files from his laptop without him knowing.)
I miss not having to edit something, really. I even stopped developing on my desktop. Weird since many developers gave up Gentoo or other distros so they could have a stable system.
Free, alternative office suite OpenOffice.org's latest version 3.0 is now available for download by testers. OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 1 offers several new features and improvements from its last major release, including better Mac support and collaboration capabilities. Let's take a look at the notable fso you can decide if it's worth taking another look at OpenOffice.org as an alternative to Microsoft Office.
How might that work? Your first weapon is evidence.
