Debian Junior – Linux for children from 1 to 99
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Debian Junior is a project to make Debian/Linux an OS that children of all ages will want to use!
Debian Junior provides a collection of packages for children and their guides. Beyond merely providing entertainment, the packages we have selected cover a broad range of areas, from those which help the child visualize what is inside their operating system (lavaps, xcruise) to music, art, writing and programming (xmms, gimp, abiword and python) as well as some games and desktop toys. We hope that child and guides alike will have fun, learn together, and make creative use of this excellent free software.
Ultimately, we owe the free software authors and maintainers the thanks for what they have given the world. Debian Jr. work is to gather their work together into the Debian distribution, making it readily available to children and their guides. Once they select a package, they care for its quality, listening to the users, sending wishlists, bug reports, and fixes to Debian and upstream maintainers.
This is a list of the packs that Debian Junior is made of:
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Microsoft .NET X Java Trailer – LENNY LINUX
07/07/2010 - 12:51
Tags: java, lenny, linux, microsoft, net, trailer
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THE TRUE STORY OF A BOY THAT DISCOVERS THE TRUE POWER OF JAVA AND OPENSOURCE: Dangerously Funny Trailer “Microsoft .NET vs Java” This Is For You IT Tech Geeks Out There…A Little Nerd Humor.
Kondo KHR-3HV robot celebrates Engadget Award with a new Linux backpack (video)
23/02/2010 - 14:13
Tags: Video, award, backpack, celebrates, engadget, khr3hv, kondo, linux, robot
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Yes, , you were our choice for , and we see you’re celebrating by going out and getting yourself some new gear. We like your taste. Inside that fancy new backpack is a 32-bit Samsung ARM CPU running at 200MHz, powerful enough to handle Linux and things like onboard image processing and object recognition. It also supports WiFi, meaning Kondo can beam what he sees wirelessly and become a roving security guard — a very small and non-lethal security guard, but a guard nontheless. This kind of tech (shown off in a video below) will set you back ¥60,000, or about $660, and yes that’s just for the backpack. (The bot itself goes for somewhere north of the $1,300 range.) So congratulations again on your victory, 3HV — just don’t let it go to your webcam.
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Aperture 3 is making Macs freak out – be careful out there, children
15/02/2010 - 23:20
Tags: 3, aperture, careful, children, freak, macs, making
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Just a quick PSA: Aperture 3 is causing some Macs to write an enormous page file taking up the entire hard drive. If you were thinking of installing it and transferring over your collection, you might want to wait until they iron out this particular wrinkle. No official word on a fix yet.
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Moblin + Maemo + Linux Foundation = MeeGo
15/02/2010 - 15:55
Tags: foundation, linux, maemo, meego, moblin
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Intel’s had their Moblin mobile Linux distribution for some time. Nokia’s had their Maemo Linux distribution for awhile, too. Neither one really gained much traction in the development community. Along comes Google and everyone’s like “OMG Android!!1″ which must’ve really ticked off Intel and Nokia. In an effort to create a Linux distribution suited for new mobile devices — not just phones — Intel and Nokia are teaming up with the Linux Foundation to create MeeGo.
Ksplice Uptrack now available for Linux users everywhere
Last summer we wrote about , a hot new technology that allows Linux kernel updates to be applied in real time, without requiring a reboot. Whether you want to use this for your personal laptop, or a lab room full of PCs, or a data center hosting environment, Ksplice Uptrack, the company’s hosted service, is now available to the general public. They’re offering a thirty day free trial, plus a completely free (as in beer) version for Ubuntu users.
Microsoft finally introduces Red Hat support in Linux Integrated Components for Hyper-V
08/02/2010 - 13:46
Tags: components, finally, hat, hyperv, integrated, introduces, linux, microsoft, red, support
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At the end of January Microsoft silently updated its Linux Integrated Components package to version 2.0, introducing the long awaited support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) guest operating systems in Hyper-V.
Microsoft future support for Red Hat operating systems in July 2009, since the open source vendor joined the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).
Customers had to wait no less than seven months to finally have a version of Hyper-V Linux Integrated Components that supports RHEL 5 (including 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 versions, both 32 and 64bit).
Like for Novell SUSE Linux, Microsoft doesn?t include in the package the optimized drivers for mouse. To have those customers need to rely on Citrix, which is offering them as open source .
On top of that Linux Integrated Components still only supports Linux virtual machines with a single virtual CPU.
In July 2009 , and despite , the move should guarantee that every major Linux distribution will be included over time.
Let?s just hope that the process will not take seven months for every distribution out there.
Thanks to for the news.
Linux creator says, ‘Nexus One is a winner’
Since we all know that Android runs a modified version of Linux, you’d think that the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, would absolutely love Android handsets. Nope. As a matter of fact, the man hates cell phones. Torvalds says that he got the G1 when it came out but rarely used it because of his [...]
I’m Linux, you’re Linux, we’re all Linux!
05/02/2010 - 13:30
Tags: linux
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I’ve been a full-time Linux user since 1999. I’ve been an advocate for Linux and for most of that time. My advocacy efforts usually stay within my social group, or at , though occasionally I’ll use my posts here to support the penguin. Linux, as an open source project developed by an ad-hoc group of people, often with competing agendas, has succeeded without much mainstream advertising. Microsoft had their laptop shopper commercials, and Apple has had their wildly successful “I’m a Mac” commercials, but there have been few Linux commercials. In the open source style of Linux development, now’s your chance to change that state of affairs!
Linux and Open Source – ZDNet (blog)
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Those about to rock, we encourage you to recompile your Linux kernel
This crazy guitar is actually an open source MIDI system using a sexy touchscreen with multi-touch and reactive fretboard. The result? Let’s just say while you probably won’t get much cherry pie playing this thing, the guys at Information Society will definitely invite you into their trailer at the Iowa State Fair this year.
