Learning with
Gcompris
"In
my last article, Teaching with Tux, I wrote about teaching children
with the Tux Educational programs. Today, I'm going to discuss the
Gcompris education suite. Gcompris is meant for younger children from 2
to 10 years old, though it seems to focus on the younger part of this
range."
Read
More: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/learning-gcompris
10 secrets
about Nautilus
"...The file
manager lets you organize your files into folders. Folders can contain
files as well as other folders. Using folders helps you find your files
more easily..."
Read
More: http://linuxcrunch.com/content/10-secrets-about-nautilus-file-manager
Cuba preparing
to quit Windows in favor of GNU/Linux
"Cuban authorities
are seriously preparing to quit the Windows operating system and use
the GNU/Linux free software instead, thus avoiding any sanctions
for using this computer system by the Windows' owner, the giant
Microsoft Corporation."
Read
More: http://www.ghabuntu.com/2009/11/cuba-preparing-to-quit-windows-in-favor.html
Microsoft
admits Win 7 tool violated GPL
"Microsoft
will soon release a Windows 7 tool under the GPL, after admitting the
product violated the terms of the popular open-source license. On
Friday, the company said it will release the ImageMaster USB/DVD source
code and binaries under GPLv2 next, following an internal investigation
into the matter that found it had indeed violated the license."
Read
More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/microsoft_gpl_violation_imagemaster_apology/
More News
& Articles
(Just Links)
Development
News
Packages
and Upgrades
The development
work is just about building packages and nothing else. For now no
upgrades will be made in our repository, but anyone can continue
upgrading Slackware packages. Just after I rebuilt every package and
some more I will start to recreate our main repository under the name
of our next project.
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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