Mais apoio ao ODF por parte da Alemanha, India e Brasil

O primeiro workshop do sector público para o ODF teve lugar em Berlin nos dias 29-30 de Outubro e teve como anfitriões o ministério dos estrangeiros Alemão.
Parece que este ministério já está a usar nos seus portáteis o GNU/Linux e o OpenOffice.org, esta utilização vai se estender às workstations diplomáticas em meados de 2008.

Também a cidade de Bristol, no Reino Unido está a migrar para StarOffice e apoia a utilização do ODF.

India e Brasil são também países onde se aposta fortemente na utilização de standards abertos.

Open Document Format gains more support | EDRI

The Foreign Office has already linked its foreign missions in a network using open-source programs and shifted to OpenOffice and Linux operation systems on their laptops and has in view to extend this program to all diplomatic workstations by the middle of 2008.


Brazil and India are also leaders in the use of open standards in the office area. Deivi Kuhn of Serpro, a company coordinating the use of open source in
Brazil, declared that ODF standard adopted by the International Organization for Standardization, a good tool providing both access to knowledge
and ensuring user freedoms, was mandatory for e-government state interoperability standards. In India, in the federal state of Assam, PCs with Linux and OpenOffice were given to students and the migration to open source software was in progress in government offices.

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FlyBack a TimeMachine do GNU/Linux

O nosso GNU/Linux também dispõe de algo parecido com a TimeMachine da Apple, apresentado no seu Leopard.

Existem outros projectos que pretendem implementar ou até existem antes da TimeMachine, como o rsnapshot, o TimeVault e outros como o dirvish.

HowItWorks - flyback - Google Code

"FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync It creates successive backup directories mirroring the files you wish to backup, but hard-links unchanged files to the previous backup. This prevents wasting disk space while providing you with full access to all your files without any sort of recovery program. If your machine crashes, just move your external drive to your new machine and copy the latest backup using whatever file browser you normally use.

Note that this means you can selectively delete specific backups and still retain files stored in previous ones. (ie., you can delete tuesday's backup and keep monday's, without screwing up wednesday's).

Ways FlyBack Differs from Time Machine

1. There is no inotify mechanism in Linux, so FlyBack scans your entire directory structure when performing a backup.
2. No hard-linking of directories is supported under Linux, so we waste a few KBs recreating unchanged directory structures with nothing but hard-links in them."

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Supercomputador Cray a usar GNU/Linux

A CRAY, empresa fundada pelo designer de computadores Seymour Cray, lançou a família de supercomputadores XT5 :)

Software Livre rules...cada vez mais!!!

Tectonic: Tectonic

"Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has launched the Cray XT5 family of supercomputers, which it says is "the world's most scalable Linux-based supercomputer"."

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Jogos sujos da micro$oft....

Este post contém alguns links interessantes sobre algumas das prácticas usadas pela micro$oft para criar e manter o seu monopólio.

CyberSnare
by
Roberto Di Cosmo

Why I hate Microsoft
"A personal, lengthy, but highly articulate outburst"

"The Halloween documents are a series of confidential memoranda on potential strategies employed by Microsoft relating to open-source software and to Linux in particular; and a series of responses to these memoranda."

Halloween Documents FAQ

What's So Bad About Microsoft?

Dirty Tricks
A GRAB BAG OF DECEPTION, DISHONESTY & HIGH-HANDED TACTICS

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Documentação para Debian e Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Alguns links com documentação sobre o Debian e Ubuntu...
Sendo para Debian funcionam basicamente em todas as distros baseadas no Debian GNU/Linux.


debianHELP

Debianhelp.co.uk!

Debian User Forums

Projeto de Documentação Debian

Debian Administration

Debian Reference

Debian Documentation


Ubuntu Installation Guide

User Documentation

Documentation for Ubuntu 7.04

CommonQuestions

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rtorrent, imbatível no download de torrents

Há algum tempo que procuro um programa leve e sem grandes complicações para fazer o download de torrents, após usar o Azureus que é muito bom mas pesaddddddddddoooooo como tudo por usar o java, e não contente com as outras hipóteses gráficas como Deluge, Transmission etc, voltei-me para o terminal, e encontrei o excelente rtorrent.

Depois de configurado o router para fazer o port forward consigo atingir velocidades fabulosas , como por exemplo a fazer o download da versão alternate do ubuntu 7.10.... a puxar a 1003.6Kb...

FABULOSO.... ;)

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gOS o futuro sistema operativo do google?

O gOS é um sistema operativo GNU/Linux, baseado no Ubuntu mas que tenta maximizar a utilização da chamada WEB2.0, todo ele está envolto quer nas aplicações que o google tem para download quer nas aplicações online deste.

O mais interessante é que o gOS usa o lindíssimo Enlightenment, um dos window managers mais leves e cheios de eye candy, na minha modesta opinião, seria uma excelente base para o Ubuntu criar uma próxima versão....
pleasssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee apostem no E17, a versão de desenvolvimento do Enlightenment.

Um artigo com diversas fotos do gOS...

Interview with gOS Founder: “Linux For Human Beings (Who Shop At WAL*MART)”

"Well, I guess a couple things happened… I got interested in Google applications, especially docs and spreadsheets, presentations; and originally, I wanted to create my idea of what a Google OS would look like.. if there were such a mythical OS. As I started looking around at all the Google applications out there, I realized that all of our “computing” could eventually be done in the Google cloud. We just needed an OS that looked really good and pointed people to Google in a really friendly, intelligent way. After seeing this, I got excited because I saw it was also commercially viable for the mainstream end user… Google makes Linux familiar."

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