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Linux-Announce Digest #127
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Linux-Announce Digest #127, Volume #5 Sat, 14 May 2005 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
UNESCO announcement (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
FYI - GroupServer open source code released (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
INDIA: LinTux Newsletter, Issue 28 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Fle3 1.5.0 released - Pedagogical open source tool for collaborative ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:50:18 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: UNESCO announcement (fwd)
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Dear Colleagues,
An announcement from UNESCO that may be of interest to some of you in the region.......
Free Software : UNESCO Brazil
With the goal of promoting the exchange of experiences in the application of open source software in order to benefit economic and social development, UNESCO and several governmental and non-governmental Brazilian institutions will sponsor LACFREE 2005 - Latin American and Caribbean Conference on the Development and Use of Free Software - in Brazil. The official inauguration of the event and the opening for the presentation of projects was held at the UNESCO Office in Brazil, in Brasilia, on April 27th. The International Conference will be held in the city of Recife from September 28th to October 1st www.unesco.org.br)
Best regards,
Susan
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:48:21 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FYI - GroupServer open source code released (fwd)
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Greeting Dgroups Fans,
In the past I've mentioned GroupServer in our exchanges. This source
code is now available for anyone interested in setting up their own
server.
I've blogged the open source release today:
http://www.dowire.org/notes/index.php?p=17
Read up on E-Democracy.Org's involvement with the tool and watch our 20
minute video tour if you want the inside scoop:
http://e-democracy.org/groupserver
Visit the official download site in New Zealand run by GroupSense,
IOPEN and ZYPE:
http://groupserver.org
Those with NGOs and governments interested in promoting additional
core features that serve all of our needs, are invited join a special
online group:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/factory/groups/gs-ngogov
Because GroupServer is fundamentally e-mail accessible and low bandwidth
friendly on the web side, we see this tool taking among NGOs and the
development community around the world.
Sincerely,
Steven Clift
Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@publicus.net
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA: LinTux Newsletter, Issue 28 (fwd)
Date: 13 May 2005 22:00:10 GMT
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Keep Your Eye on Ubuntu Linux
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If you're a watcher of the world of Linux distributions,
you've likely been hearing about Ubuntu, a relatively new
entrant that's managed to win the devotion of many Linux
users by augmenting the solid and popular Debian GNU/Linux
with up-to-date software components and slick packaging...
Read Full:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1791653,00.asp?kc=3DEWRSS0
3129TX1K0000616
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"Foss in India"
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A small essay on "Foss in India", is posted here
http://linux4all.blogspot.com/
Taken from Little League
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First look: NVU RC 1.0
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NVU is the open source community's first WYSIWYG HTML editor,
slated to be released shortly. After testing the release
candidate software, I like what I see. After a painless
install on my Ubuntu box, I found NVU's interface neat and
well-organized. The main workspace includes the site manager
(about which more in a moment), the main window...
Read Full:
http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=3D05/04/28/1915
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Creating a project dashboard with RSS and rawdog
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One of the challenges of managing a development project is
keeping all parties abreast of key events or milestones. It's
not just the team members -- marketing personnel need to plan
events, business teams need to do forecasting, even the
operations people need to know whether to lay in extra
caffeinated beverages. Here's how you can use the rawdog RSS
aggregator to build a project dashboard that will keep your
project's people aware of its status...
Read Full:
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=3D05/05/03/146241
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64-Bit Linux Is Already Here
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In Bill Gates WinHEC opening keynote address, he talked about
the third decade-the 64-bit decade-of Windows computing and
the problems it faces with a lack of software and 64-bit
drivers. What I want to know is why anyone who wants a 64-bit
operating system today is bothering with Windows in the first
place, when 64-bit Linux has been around for ages?...
Taken From:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1813588,00.asp?kc=3DEWRSS0
3129TX1K0000616
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HOWTO: How to create mini kickstart CD for FC3
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System administrators regularly work from the command line,
but there's more to the console than managing servers. You
can do most desktop work from the console, and generally
faster than you can accomplish work from a graphical user
interface. You can even have a basic office suite, complete
with a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program,
all in the absence of a GUI. Here are 10 applications to
try....
Taken From:
http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=3D650
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Firefox Reaches Download Milestone
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The Mozilla Foundation said its open source Firefox browser
passed the 50 million-download mark this week, less than a
year after version 1.0 was released. The alternative browser,
which analytics firms claim has garnered anywhere from 6
percent to 10 percent of the gigantic browser market, has
been building momentum since its launch last November...
Read Full at:
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3503016
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Microsoft and the 24-hour Linux phenomenon
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Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Jim Allchin,
Microsoft's group vice president in charge of platforms, to
talk about the future of Windows. As it turned out, however,
what he has to say about Linux is equally interesting.
"Linux is the expected winner," Allchin says, "with its
lineage from Unix. But we're happy, because we're winning
market share." Got that? Not only is Linux a formidable
competitor in the server market, but now Microsoft actually
paints itself as the underdog....
Taken From:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/25/17OPopenent_1.html
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China's biggest bank makes switch to Linux
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SHANGHAI -- China's biggest bank plans to deploy Linux on
servers across its network of 20,000 national branches in a
project that may be the biggest Linux deployment yet seen in
China, according to an executive involved with the deal.
Under the terms of an agreement announced yesterday, the
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) plans to
gradually roll out Turbolinux Inc.'s Turbolinux 7 DataServer
operating system for all of its front-end banking operations
over a three-year period. Financial terms of the deal weren't
disclosed.
What makes this deal special is its size. With $640 billion
in total assets, ICBC is China's biggest bank, serving 100
million individuals and 8.1 million corporate accounts at
more than 20,000 branch offices across China. When the
project is completed, many of ICBC's 390,000 employees will
be accessing applications hosted on Linux servers on a daily
basis.
ICBC chose Linux in part because its existing front-end
applications, which were developed in-house, run on The SCO
Group Inc.'s SCO Unix, and migrating them to Linux was
determined to be an easier upgrade path than switching the
applications to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system,
according to Claude Zhou, general manager of Turbolinux
China.
ICBC has been granted a site license, and front-end
applications based on Turbolinux 7 DataServer will be rolled
out on a "step-by-step" basis to all of ICBC's 20,000
offices, Zhou said. ICBC employees will access the
applications from terminals. "This is the biggest Linux
implementation in China," according to Zhou.
ICBC is in the process of choosing a systems integrator to
handle the project. Bank executives are expected to announce
their decision soon, Zhou said. Officials from ICBC weren't
available this week to discuss the project.
ICBC isn't the only one of China's four main banks to have
decided to deploy Linux. For example, Bank of China has
deployed Linux distributions from Turbolinux and Red Hat Inc.
in regional projects.
More banks are expected to follow ICBC's lead with
large-scale Linux deployments, according to Zhou.
Agricultural Bank of China, another of the country's top four
banks, is expected to announce within the next month a tender
for a Linux site license that is similar to the ICBC project,
he said.
The fourth major bank, China Construction Bank, is also
expected to announce sometime this year plans to move its IT
systems to Linux, according to China's state-run media.
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Interview with OpenOffice.org staff
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OpenOffice.org is the most comprehensive open source office
productivity suite available. Into its fifth year of
existence, the project is set to release its next version,
OpenOffice.org 2.0, with a major overhaul. The latest
release, 1.9 (also popularly known as 2.0-beta), came out in
March this year and was met with mixed reviews. While many
were happy with the progress, many people criticized it for
its use of Java. In this interview with Louis Suarez-Potts,
Community Manager; and Martin Hollmichel, Release Manager of
OpenOffice.org, they talk about what makes 2.0 different from
the previous releases...
Read Full:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=3D05/04/29/1412237
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Firefox 1.1 Preview
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Mozilla is set to release its next version of its famous
Firefox browser within the next six months. This is an
incremental improvement; but what exactly is improved?
Overall performance of loading new pages off the network is
somewhat improved, but the improvement is small and might not
even be noticeable. One bug that has been fixed in the Linux
version of Firefox is the incremental rendering of pages...
Read Full at:
http://fedoracoreblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/firefox-11-preview
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Benson coop never Metadot it didn't like
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A Benson, Arizona energy services cooperative has found an
open source content management system (CMS) that gives it the
power needed to run not only the company intranet, but a
handful of external-facing Web sites as well. On top of that,
with Metadot Portal Server, the cooperative is saving
thousands of dollars on licensing fees it would otherwise
have had to pay if it made use of proprietary CMS
software....
Read Full at:
http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=3D05/04/29/1840
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Fle3 1.5.0 released - Pedagogical open source tool for collaborative
Date: 13 May 2005 22:00:13 GMT
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Dear all,
Fle3 version 1.5.0 released. New feature: teacher's announcement blog.
Fle3 is a web-based pedagogical tool for collaborative learning. Fle3 is
designed to support learner and group centered work that concentrates on
creating and developing expressions of knowledge. Fle3 is a Zope product and
released under GPL.
Download and read more about it from the Fle3 project website:
http://fle3.uiah.fi/
The new version includes one new feature: teacher's announcement blog. The new
feature is a major improvement to Fle3. Read more about the rationale behind
the feature from the FLOSSE Posse blog:
http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=fle3-1-5-is-here-and-you-are-the-first-to-know-about-it
Best regards,
- Teemu
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http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/
+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki
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