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."
Read
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8309583.stm
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."
Read
More: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3843451/KDE-Social-Desktop-Contest-Freeing-the-Web.htm
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."
Read
More: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28574/1141/
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..."
Read
More: http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-it-about-linux.html
More News
& Articles
(Just Links)
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.
Tutors
& Howtos
Updates
No module upgraded.
Module
Repository: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/goblinx/modules
Mirror#1: http://goblinx.linuxish.net/modules/
Mirror#2:
http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/goblinx/
Mirror#3: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/goblinx/modules/
No
package upgraded or added last week. We are compiling several
applications.
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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