Linus Torvalds at linux.conf.au in Sydney today
From Builder AU:
“One of the issues I have is that the most important thing is good technology. It’s not about being commercial or non-commercial, open source or closed source. To me, the reason I do open source is, it is fun.
That is the most basic thing. “I also happen to believe that it is the best way to, eventually, get the best end result. Part of that is the ‘eventually’. At any particular point in time, it may not always be the best thing right then,” he said.
He also talks about the GNU GPL and DRM. Read the whole article.
Wikipedia: [[Linus_Torvalds]] is best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel.
The City of Chicago goes Linux, saves over 85%!
October 26, 2006 by Chris · 2 Comments
The City of Chicago’s announced successful migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for essential government programs including the vehicle registration system online job applications restaurant inspections ethics training and more. The City of Chicago migrated to Red Hat in order to reduce costs and improve support performance and scalability.
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Linux Spreads Its Wings In India
September 23, 2006 by Chris · Leave a Comment
Initial source was digg.com
Linux Spreads Its Wings In India
With 4,000 students and just 21 computers, the Cotton Hill Girls High School in the south Indian city of Trivandrum wouldn’t appear to be at the vanguard of anything related to information technology. Yet the 71-year-old school is abandoning Microsoft Windows software in favor of its free, open-source rival, Linux.
That doesn’t sound like a big deal but here’s more from the artice
The school is one of 2,600 in the state of Kerala making the shift. That means each of the state’s 1.5 million high school students will grow accustomed to working not in the Windows environment familiar to computer users worldwide, but in Linux. And over the next two years, computer science based on Linux software will be made mandatory in all of the state’s high schools. “As a government that keeps the interest of society over corporations, we are committed to the use and development of free software,” says V.S. Achutanandan, Kerala’s sarong-clad chief minister.
This is also nice. Tuxpaint is the best.
“We’re using something called Linux,” says 12-year-old Arya VM as she plays with Tux Paint, a Linux drawing and painting application. And Windows? “Never heard of it,” she says.
Read the article, theres some nice statistics there.
Here’s some interesting stats from the world of enterprise level software.
IDC surveyed 5000 developers in 116 countries and discovered that open source is used by 71% of them and — perhaps more surprisingly — is used in 54% of their production environments.
More links from Digg.com
Munich Begins to Switch Windows Out for Linux
Munich has begun its migration to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned and nearly three years since the city announced its move to open source software. Since Tuesday, the first 100 of the city ’s 14,000 PCs have been switched from Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux and OpenOffice.
Nasa Lunar Robot Runs Red Hat Linux
The K-10 is controlled wirelessly, via a PCMCIA-based 802.11g interface connected to an 8db 2.4GHz antenna via an RF cable. The control application runs on the control laptop as a single, multi-threaded userspace application.
Truth Happens and the Open Child
August 27, 2006 by Chris · Leave a Comment
Watch the video Truth Happens.
Future is Open Videos:
- Prodigy
- Open Child is Ready
- Open Child is Everywhere
- Open Child is Working
- Open Child is Growing
- Open Child Superpower
This XGL Desktop Video kicks ass, check it out.
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EdNA Online and GNU/Linux in Australian education news
From EdNA Online News Feed(ICT in Curriculum Recent Items)
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. “Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Edubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. These freedoms make Edubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools available free of charge, but users have the right to modify software until it works for them the way they want it to work.
From EdNA Online News Feed(Higher Ed Recent Items)
Linux.com
Linux.com is an independent Web site that provides Linux information, news, tips, and reference material. Linux.com represents a community of Linux users that share and contribute knowledge of the Linux and make such information freely available.
From LinuxWorld.com.au
RedHat sticks Canberra feather in its cap
The Red Hat empire is spreading with Canberra TAFE signing up as the latest academic institution to partner with the Linux vendor to offer training to its students and prepare them for the Red Hat Certified Technician exam (RHCT).
Lots of good news. The thing thats special about this for me is that EdNA Online is a joint initiative of the State and Territory governments, and the Australian Government, through their education departments. Back in early 2005 a very nice teacher librarian gave me the opportunity to share my work with professional educators using a free service called EdNA Groups that uses a libre software called moodle.
EdNA Groups is a free service for communication and collaboration between members of the Australian education and training community. Why not register to join an existing group or start your own online group!
My group is called Libre Software and Libre Knowledge in Education. Teaching people about libre software and libre knowledge is very diificult and challenging. Recently I’ve disbanded from all other groups and unsubscribed from their mailing lists so I’m just going work on superuser projects and contribute to the EdNA group when I can. Thanks for your help.
Novell Xgl Compiz Presentation
June 24, 2006 by Chris · Leave a Comment
Heres the Novell Xgl Compiz Presentation from youtube. You can watch it below.