New Study Shows Linux Desktop Growing Stronger

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-05-21-010-35-NW-MR

Linux.com: "Even as the global recession cuts into worldwide PC shipments, a new analyst report released today reveals a strong and growing interest among IT staffs to deploy Linux as a cost-reduction and security-enhancing measure in their respective companies."

Brazil is aggressively expanding their Telecentro program

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-05-19-012-35-NW-DP

Free Software in Latin America: "Almost all of the Telecentros are built using entirely free and open source software. Adding to the social benefit of the project, the rapid timetable will be met by training Brazilian youths on how to install Linux, configure the workstations and servers, and get the Telecentros online, up and running."

Ubuntu, Now More Popular than Windows XP!

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-05-01-008-35-OS-MS

Tech Source From Bohol: "Ubuntu has finally eclipsed Windows XP in terms of popularity. --That is according to the most recent data from Google Trends. See graph below:"

Governo alemão destina 500 milhões de euros ao software livre

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/FbszsrnOyYU/nl1236569664.html

Depois do governo britânico demostrar que o software livre é melhor para seus contribuintes e, a partir daí, desenvolverem um plano de ação para impulsioná-lo, outros governos europeus parecem estar tomando nota e montando outros planos para apoiar o Software Livre. De fato, o governo alemão acaba de decidir destinar 500 milhões de euros ao programa "Open Source and Green IT", um programa dedicado à estabilidade e crescimento das ferramentas de Software Livre, tecnologias "green" e soluções de segurança da informação para objetivos governamentais.

http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/open-source-and-green-it-special-program-of-the-german-government/
Fonte: http://softlibre.barrapunto.com/softlibre/09/03/06/1142214.shtml

Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure

URL: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/txIhxiJpP-4/20081009-wikipedia-adopts-ubuntu-for-its-server-infrastructure.html

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.

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Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N2fPjYxAxMA/article.pl

Da Massive writes "Techworld has an in-depth chat with Simon Peyton-Jones about the development of Haskell and his philosophy of do one thing, and do it well. Peyton-Jones describes his interest in lazy functional programming languages, and chats about their increasing relevance in a world with rapidly increasing multi-core CPUs and clusters. 'I think Haskell is increasingly well placed for this multi-core stuff, as I think people are increasingly going to look to languages like Haskell and say 'oh, that's where we can get some good ideas at least', whether or not it's the actual language or concrete syntax that they adopt.'"

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Urnas eletrônicas terão Linux e biometria em 2008

URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/395871547/nl1221711885.html

As urnas eletrônicas que serão usadas no pleito de 2008, que escolhe os novos prefeitos e vereadores de todo o Brasil, inauguram o uso de sistema operacional Linux e, em três municípios escolhidos para teste, também o recurso da biometria para identificação do eleitor.