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Linux-Announce Digest #414
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Linux-Announce Digest #414, Volume #4 Fri, 16 May 2003 01:13:02 EDT
Contents:
SEMINAR-HELSINKI: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Developing ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
rexima 1.3 - curses-based (and command-line) mixer (Russell Marks)
"Linux Distributions Guide" updated (Rod Smith)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: SEMINAR-HELSINKI: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Developing
Date: 15 May 2003 22:30:22 GMT
OneWorld Finland <http://www.maailma.net> and KEPA
<http://www.kepa.fi/english/> organise an International Seminar on
Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Developing Countries
Thursday, May 22nd , 2003
At The Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration - Hanken
<http://www.hanken.fi/hanken/eng/index.php?>
Auditorium Maximum, II floor
Arkadiank. 22, Helsinki.
Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Developing Countries - advantages and
obstacles
PROGRAMME
09.30 Opening of the Seminar
09.45 *Niranjan Rajani *(Researcher, Finland): Presentation of the report /
Free as in Education: Significance of Free/Open-Source Software for
Developing Countries/
10.15 *Edgar Villanueva Nunez* (Congressman, Peru): /
Legal and Other Experiences in Promoting FLOSS in Peru/
11.15 *Sinikka Sassi,* (Professor of network communication, Helsinki
University) &* Seppo Koskela *(Analyst, Helsinki University):
/Presentation of the Applied Linux Institute Project/
11.30/ Floor open for discussion/
*12.30. - 13.30 Lunch* (Available in Hanken Lunch Room, or surrounding
restaurants)
13.30 *Nico Coetzee* (Open Source Developer, South Africa):/
Sustainable ICT Development in Africa – How FLOSS can help NEPAD/
13.50 *Fredrick Noronha* (Journalist, India):/
LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY: What Free Software could do for Asia.../
14.20 *Cesar Brod *(/ /IT Manager, Brazil): /
Free Software and regional development/
14.40 *Claudio Cesar Carvalho de Almeida* (Brasilian Bank for Social and
Economic Development) /
Free Software as a Policy/
15.00 /Floor open for discussion/
/The Seminar is Free and Open for Public/
The Report
/Free as in Education: //Significance of Free/Open-Source Software for
Developing Countries /
/*More information */
About the research project and the seminar itself:/
/ juha dot rekola at kepa dot fi/
/ timo dot mielonen at maailma dot net/
A/bout the Applied Linux Institute Project:
seppo dot koskela at helsinki dot fi/
The Speakers
The Peruvian Congressman,* *
*Dr. Edgar Villanueva Nuuez*
<http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2001/evillanueva.htm>
has recently become somewhat of a celebrity in the Free Software and Open
Source communities as a result of his legislative efforts
<http://www.gnu.org.pe/proleyap.html> favouring free software and his highly
publicized <http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=6099>, well
informed and eloquent response
<http://www.aful.org/politique/perou/english/rescon_en.html> to a Peruvian
Microsoft executive's letter
<http://www.aful.org/politique/perou/english/alt2_ms_to_villanueva.html>
<http://www.gnu.org.pe/mscarta.html>.
*Niranjan Rajani *
is the main author of the research "Significance of Free/Libre Open-Source
Software for Developing Countries".
*Cesar Brod* <http://brod.univates.br/>
is presently the IT Manager in Univates University
<http://www.univates.br/>, and one of the coordinators of the Free Software
Project of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and a member of the Linux Around
the World initiative. Cesar Brod got first involved with GNU/Linux in 1993
when he needed a "Unix" that he could use in his computer in order to
emulate problems he was having in a System V based machine.
*Fredrick Noronha*
Goa (India)-based journalist, who is co-founder of Bytes For All
<http://www.bytesforall.org/> - a collaborative venture studying the use of
IT and Internet for development in South Asia, and also founder member of
India-Linux Users Group-Goa.
*Nico Coetzee*
a full time Open Source developer in South Africa, is always tinkering with
some obscure Open Source code, trying to make life a bit easier. It all
started in 1995, just shortly after the official launch of Windows 95. Since
then he has started to focus on Perl development, because "it's simply the
most flexible and easy to learn language out there...". In his research
capacity, he looked at the Open Source movement in Africa, as well as what
needs to change (from his perspective) in order for Africa to become a IT
world player.
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From: Russell Marks <russell.marks@ntlworld.com>
Subject: rexima 1.3 - curses-based (and command-line) mixer
Date: 16 May 2003 02:30:09 GMT
rexima is a curses-based interactive mixer which can also be used from
the command-line. It runs on any terminal with a screen size of 80x24
or greater. It's intended to be a simple, general, usable mixer
without all the chrome usually present in other mixers.
You can download it from here:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/sound/mixers/rexima-1.3.tar.gz
There's also a web page here:
http://rus.members.beeb.net/rexima.html
Here's the changes relative to the previous version (from NEWS):
Now allows mixer device file to be specified, so you can work with
something other than /dev/mixer. Thanks to Ivan Kalvatchev for
(indirectly) suggesting this.
-Rus.
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From: rodsmith@rodsbooks.com (Rod Smith)
Subject: "Linux Distributions Guide" updated
Date: 16 May 2003 02:30:12 GMT
Reply-To: rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
I've recently updated my "Linux Distributions Guide" Web page:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
This page provides brief comparative reviews of several Linux
distributions:
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
- Libranet Linux 2.0
- Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.0
- Mandrake Linux 9.1
- Red Hat Linux 9
- Slackware Linux 9.0
- SuSE Linux 8.1
If you're a Linux newbie trying to decide what distribution to use, or if
you've used one distribution and want to try another, this page can be a
helpful resource. (At least, I hope it can be!)
--
Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking
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