LibreOffice 3.5: “the best free office suite ever”
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Open Source Robotic Surgery
“We decided to follow an open-source model, because if all of these labs have a common research platform for doing robotic surgery, the whole field will be able to advance more quickly,” said Jacob Rosen, associate professor of computer engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and principal investigator on the project.
Read More: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-open-source-robotic-surgery-platform-medical.html
The Wiiner is Android!!!!!
Microsoft might have sold hundreds of millions of Windows 7 licenses, and Apple might be managing to to persuade tens of millions of people to buy iOS-powered devices every quarter, but the real winner when it comes to operating systems in 2011 as been Android, Google’s mobile operating system. Based on the Linux kernel, Android is a wildly successful platform. By November of this year some 200 million Android powered devices were in use. If that sounds impressive, consider that this number is growing by some 550,000 daily (or 3.85 million a week, 16.5 million a month). To put this into context, last quarter Apple sold 17 million iPhones and 11 million iPads over the three month period.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/2011-the-year-of-the-android-os/17021
OSS Workshop – USM Oct 19, 2011
The Linux Desktop: Rich with educational software
Linux for education is a great win, for all PC users. I have read about schools making the move to open source and Linux in the classroom, with countless success stories. I have been a GNU/Linux user for many years, and I admit that I have never really dug into the open source educational software that is available for the Linux desktop, until recently. I also read many articles written by Windows users about how Linux is dead on the desktop. Is it really? When I see articles that put down the Linux desktop, I am almost 100% assured that the author has not even tried to download a copy of GNU/Linux, installed some software and actually given it a test drive. For those that have actually used GNU/Linux enough to know what it is, you generally hear a completely different tone. Linux is definitely not taking over the market, but it is FAR from dead; there is a huge amount of software that comes with each and every GNU/Linux distribution that a lot of people are not even aware exists. To me, this makes the Linux desktop a very viable and economical solution for educational environments. It is also fine for business and personal use as well, but that is a harder nut to crack. As I have found for myself, it is definitely worth taking a look at what software is available; I guarantee you will be surprised.
Create you own OS based on Linux
The LFS system will be built by using an already installed Linux distribution (such as Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, or SUSE). This existing Linux system (the host) will be used as a starting point to provide necessary programs, including a compiler, linker, and shell, to build the new system. Select the “development” option during the distribution installation to be able to access these tools.
As an alternative to installing a separate distribution onto your machine, you may wish to use a LiveCD from a commercial distribution. Chapter 2 of this book describes how to create a new Linux native partition and file system. This is the place where the new LFS system will be compiled and installed. Chapter 3 explains which packages and patches need to be downloaded to build an LFS system and how to store them on the new file system. Chapter 4 discusses the setup of an appropriate working environment. Please read Chapter 4 carefully as it explains several important issues you need be aware of before beginning to work your way through Chapter 5 and beyond.
Get the LFS book from this site: Warning.. only Linux user with Command Line Interface knowledge are able to understand this book!!!! http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/index.html
OSS/Free Software Awareness Workshop 2011 – USM
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Penceramah 'Bengkel Sehari OSS Awareness 2011' Anjuran Pusat Pengetahuan, Komunikasi & Teknologi (PPKT), USM Date & Time : Wed, 19 October, 09:00 – 16:30 Venue: Makmal Multimedia, PPKT Kejuruteraan, USM Kampus Kejuruteraan Sesi Pagi 8.30am - 10am : Ceramah tentang Konsep Free/Open Source Software 10.30am - 11.30am : Pengenalan Sistem GNU/Linux & Pengurusan pengguna (struktur fail dan penggunaan File Explorer) 12.00pm - 1.00pm : Pengenalan kepada Aplikasi Sesi Petang 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Pengenalan kepada Aplikasi (sambungan) 4.00pm - 5pm : Pengenalan kepada kaedah carian dan pemasangan aplikasi
India Supreme Court moves to Ubuntu 10.04..
Supreme Court of India has directed all the courts across the nation to switch over to Ubuntu 10.04. The apex court has also given all the courts customised Ubuntu Linux DVD for installation.
Over 17,000 courts across the country were using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for the last four years. The e-committee of the Supreme Court Of India has issued a circular for ‘Guidelines for Roll-out and Installation of Ubuntu Linux for Indian Judiciary’ for the purpose. The circular talks about the replication and installation of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.
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