GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 222 (10/18/2009)

Editor’s Note

These last days I am only working on packages and upgrades for GNOME 2.28, but ahead I will need to spend some days to prepare a new website and some artistic works for the new project. I will also put everything together inside the GNOME disribution to let some friends try and test.

Old Format Newsletter: http://www.goblinx.com.br/en/newsletter_222.htm

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Linux News & Articles

Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay

“Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school. President Tabaré Vázquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 October.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8309583.stm

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KDE Social Desktop Contest: Freeing the Web

“Imagine being able to search for help online without leaving your desktop application. An About dialog you could use to contact the developer. A site where you could post works in progress directly from your desktop for criticism. These are a few of the entries in KDE’s recent social desktop contest.”

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3843451

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Ubuntu sucks says Eeebuntu developer

“The popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has received criticism from an unexpected corner and its ASUS Eee netbook users are likely to be left with an unworkable system when Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala hits the Internet later this month.”

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28574/1141/

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What is it About Linux?

“…In the Linux world, we blur the line between applications software and the operating system. This is important. It allows us to have more flexibility than any other operating system on Earth. Linux is just our operating system kernel, and everything else is something else. The GNU project once argued that we ought to be calling our systems GNU/Linux, but by that same logic we ought to call our systems something like GNU/Linux/X11/KDE or something of that sort…”

http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-it-about-linux.html

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More News & Articles (Just Links)

Why more people don’t use GNU/Linux: it’s the apps, stupid

Conky is a good example of a simple Linux tool

KDE4 overtaking GNOME in terms of usability?

Why people don’t use free software

Linux equivalents to popular Mac apps

Five handy secure shell tips and tricks

Happy 9th Birthday OpenOffice.org!

How to Reduce Hard Drive Crashes

Never heard applications for Linux

Some Things I Like about KDE 4

Home Automation with Linux

Freedom Services

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Development News

Preparing Gnome 2.28

I continue building all packages for GNOME 2.28 and its dependencies. The work is just about this. Just building packages including libraries and applications. More than two hundreds packages are already prepared to be uploaded after we migrate our repository.

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Updates

No package upgraded and added last week.

Mirror#1: http://goblinx.linuxish.net/goblinx-current/
Mirror#2: http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/goblinx/goblinx-current/
Mirror#3: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/goblinx/goblinx-current/
Mirror#4: http://www.uoc.lkams.kernel.org/pub/dist/goblinx/

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Tutors & Howtos

How to add sessions to KDM and GDM

How to merge PDF documents in Linux

User password expiration