San Marcos University (UNMSM)’s Fluid Mechanics Faculty invite Ubuntu Peru representative to give a talk about Ubuntu , because they are fully migrating to GNU/Linux distro in this case Ubuntu. The students also research applications for their flied, I was amaze to know that this applications only run an gave exact results on GNU/Linux.
Successful and peaceful conversion of a population to any new concept occurs through its children. If you want to make people recycle plastic bottles, start a recycling program in Elementary School. Do you want to introduce a new type of mathematics? Introduce it in Elementary School. Do you have an internationally accepted system of measurement that you want everyone to use? OK, that last one doesn’t count.
The market for Linux products and services will grow from $2.4 billion in 2007 to $7.7 billion in 2012. Growth will slow down from 36% in 2008 to 17% in 2012. The revenue figures are small compared to other operating system (OS) markets, but the impact of Linux on other OSs will be much more significant than these figures would lead you to believe.
TheeMahn, the man behind the Ultimate Edition, a popular Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, announced a couple of days ago the 2.0 release of his open source operating system. Being built off Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) by hand, Ultimate Edition 2.0 is the most awaited and the most complete GNU/Linux operating system to date.
Whereas the international community and the U.S. can doubtless survive and flourish in a multi-polar world, it's less clear that anyone can succeed in the long-term using proprietary operating systems as part of their society's foundation.
