08.02.08

Links 02/08/2008: More GNU/Linux on Laptops, in India

Posted in News Roundup at 4:48 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Kernel

Events

Employment

F/OSS

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Open-source suppliers make Becta’s shortlist

…Sirius Corporation and LinuxIT are thought to be among 21 firms invited to tender for the approved supplier catalogue, worth a potential £80m over four years.

Submissions for the final round have to be in before 13 August. The final list of up to 10 suppliers will be unveiled in October.
New version of Centre open source SIS released
Free for All: Open Source Software
[FSF] Free Software Supporter Issue 6 – August 2008

Sun

India

Free software centre likely by December

In order to achieve this, M. Arun, secretary, Free Software Foundation of India and coordinator, Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE), has been appointed its ‘special officer.’ The Centre will be located in Thiruvananthapuram.
Open chaos meets open source on Kolkata roads

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Free Culture

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Leftovers

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2 Comments

ml2mst said,

August 3, 2008 at 10:42 am

Thanks for including a link to Mandriva Linux on my Acer Aspire 7220 Roy.

I recorded a short desktop session (including the Compiz-Fusion “Cylinder”) with Istanbul and embedded it in the article plus a link to the Ogg-Tehora file.

Cheers,

Marti
Roy Schestowitz said,

August 3, 2008 at 11:32 am

I watched it earlier. I thought about posting a demo myself.

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