Fw: Polícia Francesa vai migrar de Windows XP para Ubuntu

URL:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/226271280/nl1201749925.html
Segundo pode-se ler no endereço a seguir, a polícia Francesa vai migrar
suas estações Windows XP para Ubuntu. Isto parece uma transição lógica,
já que antes migraram outras aplicações proprietárias para livres (em
2005, OpenOffice.org e em 2006, Firefox e Thunderbird). As razões que
dão para a mudança são três: não depender de uma só companhia,
controlar o sistema operacionar e, por último, o custo.

Confira:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w

Fonte:
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_gendarmerie_adopts_ubuntu

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Fw: Interlegis recrutando profissionais para trabalhar com software livre

URL: http://www.softwarelivre.org/news/10747
"O Interlegis publicou vários editais para a contratação de
profissionais que trabalham com software livre, para as funções de
analista e consultor, dando suporte à infra-estrutura de redes,
analisando requisitos de novos sistemas e desenvolvendo aplicativos de
software livre. Os interessados deverão enviar currículo por e-mail,
com pretensão salarial, preferencialmente em formato PDF, para o
endereço curriculo@interlegis.gov.br até o dia 10/02/2008 (comprovado
pela data de envio),

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Fw: BBC migra para Linux sua produção de TV

URL: http://www.softwarelivre.org/news/10745
Devido a lentidão da gravação em fitas, a BBC resolveu migrar todo
processo de geração do conteúdo que era gravado nestas fitas. Para tal
migrou para Linux, codificando seus arquivos digitais de vídeo usando
ffmpeg e gravando os dados num NAS ou drive USB. O time da BBC
configurou 2 sistemas Intel dual quad-core com 4GB de RAM e 4TB de
disco com sistema de arquivos XFS rodando OpenSUSE Linux.

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Fw: 23,000 Linux PCs For Filipino Schools

URL:
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/224945582/article.pl Da
Massive writes "Speaking at the linux.conf.au event in Melbourne,
Australia, independent open source consultant Ricardo Gonzalez has told
of how he has helped bring 23,000 Linux PCs to over 1000 schools in the
Philippines: 'Ministers in the Filipino government now understand Linux
can do so much for so little outlay.'" The slow process of educating a
government that knew only Microsoft is especially well described in
this piece.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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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
Queen - "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (Innuendo)

Fw: Report: Schools Will Increase Spending on Open Source

URL:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-01-24-006-26-NW-MR-PB
LinuxWorld: "Educational institutions will increase spending on
open-source software and services over the next few years, but that
doesn't mean proprietary software will be left in the dark, according
to a new report covering 14 countries..."

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Fw: SimCity Source Code Is Now Open

Begin forwarded message:

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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Fw: 11 Open-Source Projects Certified as Secure

URL:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-01-08-027-26-SC-SW-DV
D3f3ns3 1n D3pth: "Coverity, which creates automated source-code
analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source
projects that have been certified as free of security defects..."

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Fw: Dealing With Contentious Kernel Blobs

URL:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-01-07-004-26-OP-CY-KN
Blue-GNU: "The issue of binary kernel blobs cropped up on the gNewSense
Mailing list recently..."

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Linux 2.6.23: Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!
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

HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix

URL:
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/210812294/article.pl
Jeremiah Cornelius points us to Davis Freeberg's blog, where he
discusses his "nightmare scenario" of losing access to his
DRM-protected purchases by upgrading his PC monitor. "When I called
them they confirmed my worst fears. In order to access the Watch Now
service, I had to give Microsoft's DRM sniffing program access to all
of the files on my hard drive. If the software found any non-Netflix
video files, it would revoke my rights to the content and invalidate
the DRM. This means that I would lose all the movies that I've
purchased from Amazon's Unbox, just to troubleshoot the issue. Because
my computer allows me to send an unrestricted HDTV feed to my monitor,
Hollywood has decided to revoke my ability to stream 480 resolution
video files from Netflix. In order to fix my problem, Netflix
recommended that I downgrade to a lower res VGA setup."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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O DRM é a corda que as grandes corporações usarão para se
enforcar...

Another nasty DRM surprise from Netflix

URL: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/1106
Netflix DRM won't stream to HDD

When you buy into DRM technology, you put control over your computer in someone else's hands. This guarantees that unpredictable and unpleasant things will happen. Those with the DRM keys can decide that you no longer have the right to access the media you bought unless you agree to some new terms or buy some new tech, like Major League Baseball and Google Video have both done recently.

Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/209557437/article.pl
crush writes "The Linux Game Tome notes that the final team to produce a fully Open Source 3D game using the CrystalSpace engine and Blender has been chosen. The project (known as Apricot) aims to produce a cross-platform, 3D game with completely Free (CCA) graphics, music and code. An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source tools for the professional game development industry." I look forward to more 3D games on my desktop, even if this one won't be the first. (And where is the open-source bus-driving counterpart to the under-rated FlightGear?)

Free Software in Polish Schools

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-01-01-007-26-NW-CY-PB
Polish Linux: "Thousands of Polish high school students now have a chance to learn about GNU/Linux and the benefits of using free software..."