The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the hugely successful Wikipedia project, is migrating all of its server infrastructure to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. This move reflects the growing viability of Ubuntu for enterprise-scale server deployments.
URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N2fPjYxAxMA/article.pl
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URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/395871547/nl1221711885.html
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A substituição será precedida de uma campanha de esclarecimento e de
treinamento aos funcionários. A previsão da Superintendência de
Tecnologia da Informação é que até setembro seja concluída a mudança.
Vários órgãos e empresas do governo federal estão adotando o software
livre como ferramenta de trabalho.
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http://www.presidencia.gov.ec/noticias.asp?noid=13318 Ou ainda o PDF:
http://ia360931.us.archive.org/0/items/decreto/Decreto_1014_software_libre_Ecuador.pdf
Fonte: http://americas.barrapunto.com/americas/08/04/12/0134229.shtml
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Open Graphics Project founder Timothy Miller recently noted on the
project's mailing list that they are set to announce that their first
hardware, the OGD1, is ready for pre-order. "The OGD1 design has
actually been finished for a couple of months now," he began,
explaining that they've been setting up a way to process pre-orders for
the first 100 boards. The board will retail at $1,500, with a $100
discount offered for the first 100 pre-orders. "These are pre-orders,
not orders, Timothy continued, "that means the lead time is
unpredictable. We don't have a stock. We will purchase a stock based on
the number of pre-orders we get. Also, this means that if we never get
a large enough number of pre-orders, we will be unable to fulfill them;
all pre-orders would be canceled, and no one would be charged
anything." He then explained that though the OGD1 could function as a
graphics card, it is instead offered as a competitively priced FPGA
development kit, "we need to make it clear what OGD1 is and why buying
one is an important step for Free Software," adding:
"OGD1 is for hardware hackers. This isn't just about graphics. If all
you wanted was a graphics card that worked with Free Software, we've
had that for a long time with Matrox, for some time with Intel, and
most recently and significantly with ATI. Where our graphics pipeline
will be competitive is in embedded systems. As for long-term goals of
this project, there are many different types of peripherals for which
we do not have good Free Software support; for instance, wifi. But
let's not get ahead of ourselves here. OGD1 is for hardware hackers.
It's for the community of people who want to tinker with their own
hardware ideas, students who want to learn, and professionals who need
a prototyping platform. And of course full schematics and design
details for OGD1 are offered under the GPL."
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Fonte: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39379900,00.htm
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ctaurion?entry=openxml_vale_a_pena_mesmo
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Mais na fonte:
http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2470638-EI4801,00.html
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Unicamp usa PlayStation 3 para realizar pesquisas Projeto de biologia
tem 12 videogames que fazem cálculos científicos. Console da Sony tem
melhor custo/benefício que servidores comuns, diz especialista.
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Linux 2.6.24: Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!
http://u-br.net http://www.abusar.org/FELIZ_2008.html
Dream Theater - "This Dying Soul" (Train Of Thought - 2003)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/230651703/nl1202347789.html
"Um pequeno litígio entre a Microsoft e um professor russo, por este
instalar uma cópia ilegal do Windows num computador do seu colégio,
acabou nas mãos do governo do país. O resultado não podia ser pior para
a Microsoft uma vez que as autoridades russas decretaram que todas as
delegações da administração pública e escolas do país passariam a
utilizar pacotes de software open-source, colocando de lado as versões
proprietárias da empresa norte-americana."
Fonte:
http://www.broffice.org/Litigio_entre_professor_e_Microsoft_leva_Russia_migrar_para_Linux
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/229278097/nl1202177178.html
Utilização de ODF para governo do estado do Paraná agora lei; decisão é
semelhante a do governo do Estado de Massachusetts, nos Estados Unidos,
citada em artigo "Por que necessitamos de padrões de Software?"
Mais um passo rumo a liberdade tecnológica foi dado pelo governo do
Paraná. No último dia 18 de dezembro foi publicado no Diário Oficial a
lei Nº 15742, que em súmula "dispõe que os órgãos e entidades da
Administração Pública Direta, Indireta, Autárquica e Fundacional do
Estado do Paraná, bem como os órgãos autônomos e empresas sob o
controle estatal adotarão, preferencialmente, formatos abertos de
arquivos para criação, armazenamento e disponibilização digital de
documentos".
***
Tenho inveja do Paraná. Estão a frente do Brasil nesse aspecto.
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Linux 2.6.24: Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!
http://u-br.net http://www.abusar.org/FELIZ_2008.html
London After Midnight - "Kiss" (Psycho Magnet)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/228688068/nl1202097352.html
Um censo na indústria open source australiana revelou que profissionais
de TI trabalhando com software livre ganham mais do que a média
nacional. O censo, a ser totalmente lançado em março, foi conduzido
pela empresa de consultoria Waugh Partners, com suporte da Fujitsu, IBM
e NICTA.
Mais na fonte:
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;118329412;fp;16;fpid;0
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Confira em:
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;818517154;fp;16;fpid;0
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Confira:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
Fonte:
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_gendarmerie_adopts_ubuntu
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http://u-br.net http://www.abusar.org/FELIZ_2008.html
Queen - "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (Innuendo)
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:01:00 GMT
From: kdawson
Subject: SimCity Source Code Is Now Open
URL:
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/215643044/article.pl
Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the
GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed
Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC
will also be getting a SimCity branded version that has been QA'ed by
Electronic Arts. Some very cool changes have been made by Don Hopkins,
who updated and ported what is now Micropolis. (Here is an earlier
Slashdot discussion kicked off by a submission Don made.) Among other
things, it has been revamped from the original C to using C++ with
Python. Here is the page linking all the various source code versions.
Happy hacking!"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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http://u-br.net
Marilyn Manson - "Cruci-Fiction in Space" (Holy Wood (In the Shadow of
the Valley of Death) - 2000)
"Eu faço engenharia mecânica na melhor universidade do continente.
Você, perto de mim, é um bosta. É um pedreiro perto de um engenheiro
civil" -- Gregório Jordão Pires da Silva
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=46812246
