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Tetris - From Russia With Love

From:  sun.com
I have to give another plug of 1 of my favorite television channels, The Science Channel which is part of the Discovery Channel . This past weekend the Science Channel did a feature (next showing is May 26th) on the history of this famous game that almost everyone has played worldwide. Tetris ( Russian : Тетрис ) was created in June 1985 by Alexey Pazhitnov at the Moscow Academy of Science's Computer Center.  He was inspired to write this game from a board game called pentominoes.  If... Read Full Story

Inpics Helps South African School Adopt Linux

From:  solidoffice.com
Our friends at In Pictures have helped a school in Durban, South Africa, set up a computer lab running Linux Terminal Server with Ubuntu and OpenOffice. Inpics’ role was to provide a local installation of its online tutorial for student use, while a local group, eTux, found the recycled hardware, set up the machines as thin clients, networked the systems and installed the OS and applications. “Craig Adams, the leader of eTux, wanted to use the free online OpenOffice tutorials at inpics... Read Full Story

Zaragoza, Spain Adopting OpenOffice and Linux

From:  solidoffice.com
Linux Today announces that Zaragoza, Spain will migrate to FOSS: “The City Council of Zaragoza has decided to abandon the Windows operating system and move to open source systems that should save the Aragon capital city nearly €1M per year.” The migration will be carried out in two phases, scheduled to be finished by the end of [...] Read Full Story

And the Winner is - OpenOffice.org

Linux Journal , has announced it 2006 Editors' choice awards . In three categories OpenOffice.org won the top choice. OpenOpffice.org wins in the category office suite . "OpenOffice.org delivers just the right combination of openness, power and similarity to Microsoft Office that it provides the features and familiarity people want in an office suite without the drawbacks of proprietary document format or proprietary code." write the editors of Linux Journal. They also note it is by far the... Read Full Story

Clever and Happy

From:  sun.com
Being able to delight customers is on the wish list of every vendor.  When you can help them run their business around their constraints which includes budget, time and technology you have embraced opportunity. I heard of a presentation by Maureen Chew (Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.) who gave a paper and talk at the SAS Global Forum users conference in Orlando a few weeks ago.  The CDC was able to implement a very clever solution in short order by using Solaris Containers and ZFS... Read Full Story

Microsoft Strikes GPLv3 and ditchs Linspire!

Yet again Microsoft plays out its plan to mess up Linux and open source software. I am sure you must have heard about the MS deal with Novell and Linspire.And now we see how MS is ditching both these compaines after the so called "patent protection deal"! The latest : Microsoft says that's open source software licensed under GPLv3 isn't covered by the patent protection deal it recently signed Read Full Story

Mandriva's open letter to Steve Ballmer

I came across Mandirva' Blog and site after a long time. I have used the distro when it was named Mandrake. One of their blog entries caught me. It shows how unethical Microsoft is. It’s an open letter to Micorsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Here is the full post: Dear Steve, Hi, this is François, from Mandriva. I’m sure we are way too small for you to have heard of us. You know, we are one of these Linux company who is working hard to make its place in the market. We publish a Linux Distro, called... Read Full Story

ScreenShoot Kinjeng Linux [SB] 413

From:  kinjeng.net
Sebelum kita mencoba suatu distro pasti selalu mencari-cari Screenshot-nya. Supaya tidak penasaran kami tampilnya beberapa buah gambar screenshoot dari Kinjeng Linux [SB] 413 ini. Tampilan FireFox Tampilan Desktop Tampilan Pidgin (Yahoo Messenger) Tampilan Xchat (mIRC) Tampilan OpenOffice Tampilan billing CCLFox Tampilan gBilling Tampilan Network Share Tampilan Gimp (Adobe Photoshop) Tampilan Terminal (Console) Tampilan XFmedia (Media Player) Download klinux[SB]413.iso Kinjeng... Read Full Story

Download Kinjeng Linux [SB] 413

From:  kinjeng.net
Iso dari Kinjeng Linux [SB] 413 ini mempunyai kapasitas 410 MB. Bagi yang ingin mencobanya kami baru mendistribusikannya berupa ISO CD. Bagaimana cara memesannya? Kirim email ke linux[at]kinjeng.net berisi data diri atau warnet Berapa biayanya? Biaya beli cd Rp.2500 Biaya kirim disesuaikan tarif Pos atau Tiki (tergantung pilihan anda) Sumbangan Rp. 20.000 - 40.000 (tidak boleh kurang dan tidak boleh lebih) Kok [...] Read Full Story

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