Hi all, Some interesting news update from the FOSS World!
One of them being "Mandriva is planning a worldwide installfest on November 17 2007". If we want, we can get ourselves involved in it! Cheers, Subir ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 21, 2007 5:01 AM Subject: [TECTONIC] Gnome2.20, SA Govt minister goes geek To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TECTONIC NEWS - 20 September, 2007 Tracking the shifts in technology www.tectonic.co.za ------------ GNOME 2.20 OFFICIALLY RELEASED http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1740&s=news The GNOME community yesterday released version 2.20 of the popular desktop environment after six months of development with a host of power management, Evolution and desktop integration improvements. GOVT MINISTER GOES GEEK FOR FOSS DAY http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1724&s=news Armed with a One Laptop Per Child computer and kitted out in a Geek Freedom League t-shirt, South African deputy minister of science and technology, Derek Hanekom, opened Saturday's Software Freedom Day event at the departmental offices in Pretoria. STRETCH YOUR BATTERY LIFE WITH POWERTOP http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1741&s=news Getting longer battery life out laptop PCs is the holy grail of mobile computing. Powertop is a Linux tool to eek out those precious minutes of battery life by eliminating unnecessary power wasting processes. EMBED A TERMINAL IN YOUR UBUNTU DESKTOP http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1719&s=news Admit it. You enjoy using the command line in Linux. You only have a graphical interface so people in the office don't look at you strangely. So why not embed a command line in your desktop? SOFTWARE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME PUSHES OSS http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1744&s=news Lulatech, a software development consortium, are in the process of accepting applications for an internship and training programme. Students will receive training and practical experience in a variety of IT-related fields. All software used in the course will be open source. SA STUDENT CODER TALKS ON JOOMLA, GOOGLE http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1743&s=news Charl van Niekerk, a student living in George, earlier this year became the first South African to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Tectonic caught up with him to find out how the project went and about his subsequently joining the Joomla development team. A FIRST RUN WITH IBM'S FREE OFFICE SUITE http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1736&s=news Computer giant IBM yesterday released a free office suite for Windows and Linux machines called Lotus Symphony. Tectonic gave it a spin. MANDRIVA PLANS WORLDWIDE INSTALLFEST http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1737&s=news To celebrate the release of Mandriva Linux 2008 later this year Mandriva is planning a worldwide installfest on November 17 2007. Get involved now. HERE COMES USB 3.0 http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1738&s=news The next generation of USB devices, expected to run at 10 times the speed of USB 2.0, are expected to emerge in late 2008. LINUX PICKS UP PACE ON CELLPHONES http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1739&s=news There has been growing talk of Linux's adoption on cellphone platforms. Yesterday Trolltech announced the release of its application platform under the GPL as well as a partnership with OpenMoko to do development on the Neo1973, the potential iPhone killer. At the same time Broadcom joined the Linux Mobile Foundation. NEW PORTAL OFFERS INFO ON OPEN SOURCE http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1731&s=news A new website has been launched to offer information on free, libre and open source software with particular reference to the use of ICT in the NGO sector. MICROSOFT LOSES EU ANTITRUST CASE http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1732&s=news European antitrust regulators gave Microsoft a hefty smack yesterday when they upheld the European Commission's 2004 record fine of 497 million euros on the software giant. MANDRIVA SIGNS FOSS DEAL WITH ANGOLA http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1735&s=news Mandriva Linux today announced the signature of a broad technical co-operation and training agreement with Angola. MOZILLA PUMPS $3M INTO THUNDERBIRD http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1733&s=news Good news for fans of Thunderbird. The Mozilla Foundation is planning to give the email project a $3 million cash injection in an attempt to gets its heart pumping. FOSSFA CALLS FOR USE OF OPEN HARDWARE http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1725&s=news In conjunction with Software Freedom Day, the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) has made a call for governments to purchase hardware that will not limit its choice of what software to run. GOVERNMENT EYES OUT ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1726&s=news The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project got a lot of attention from important government members at the Software Freedom Day celebrations on Saturday. Take a look at this to see who was on hand to get a glimpse of the OLPC. LINUX IPOD LOCK-OUT BROKEN http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1728&s=news UPDATE: iPod Linux lock-out broken. Just a day after it was reported that Apple's latest iPod had a checksum that prevented it from working with anything other than iTunes, the offending piece of code has been broken. Blog ipodminusitunes was among the first to report this. GET THE LOWDOWN ON YOUR LINUX HARDWARE http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1729&s=news Want to upgrade your PC but not sure of the type of memory you need or the capabilities of your machine? On Linux try this: sudo dmidecode | more which gives you a ton of information from the serial number to the number of memory slots you have available. No more guessing next time you're buying upgrade parts. JOBS ON TECTONIC http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1730&s=news Today in Tectonic Jobs: Lead developers are in demand at OpenLab International and Prefix Technologies. Also needed: Web developer at Prefix and two software developers at OpenLab International. APPLE CUTS IPODS OFF FROM LINUX USERS http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1721&s=news A couple of sites are reporting that the latest iPods from Apple are no longer able to sync with non-iTunes applications. Something to watch out for if you use Linux for which there is no iTunes version available. See update here. 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