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| General: 6th Annual Ohio Linux Fest Registration Now Open | |
 Registration is open for the sixth annual Ohio LinuxFest, to be
held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown
Columbus, Ohio.
The main event is on Saturday October 11, 2008. Speakers include
Joe "zonker" Brockmeier (openSUSE) and Jono Bacon (Ubuntu), Jon
"maddog" Hall, Peter Salus, and more.
The LinuxFest will also feature an expo area with exhibits by
commercial and non-profit organizations involved with free
and open source software.
Registration is available online at
http://www.ohiolinux.org/register.html
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Posted by maysvill on Wednesday, September 17 @ 12:17:57 CDT
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| General: Cassidy: Linux devotee tries to spread the word | |
Larry Cafiero is sitting in his cluttered office in the Santa Cruz Mountains looking nothing like a revolutionary.
Friendly bearded face. Casual blue jeans. Comfy work shirt with the little penguin logo.
Yeah, penguin logo. See, Cafiero is a Linux guy. Maybe you know one — or a Linux woman. Maybe you know that to love Linux is to live Linux — that you don't just use free and open-source software, you embrace it and evangelize it. Some more than others.
For his part, Cafiero is leading a revolution in the redwood-ringed town of Felton. He's been inspired by others around the country and with them he's dubbed the effort "Lindependence 2008,'' a scheme hatched to turn Felton into an all-Linux enclave.
"There was this Nikon ad a couple of years ago where they gave digital cameras to this small town in South Carolina,'' Cafiero, 50, says, "and it was like, well, what if we gave Linux to a small town?"
And so Cafiero met with the town business association and the chamber of commerce. He sent letters to the town's residents. He tacked up posters and handed out fliers at the weekly farmers' market along Highway 9: Come to the church hall. Learn about free and open-source software. Change your life. OK, your operating system, anyway.
And they came. On three days in July they came from Felton. They came from Scotts Valley. They came from Watsonville and Oakland and who knows from where else?
Read the full article here - http://www.mercurynews.com/5minutemerc/ci_10470746?nclick_check=1
Thanks to MLUG member dick for the article information - sorry you had trouble with the submission
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Posted by maysvill on Tuesday, September 16 @ 15:07:33 CDT
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| General: New Linux Super Computer Uses Playstation 3's | |
When the PlayStation3 was released in November 2006, Gaurav Khanna's wife braved long queues so he could be one of the first people in the US to get his hands on the gaming console.
But the astrophysicist was not itching to burn some rubber in Gran Turismo or shoot hoops in NBA 07. Instead he wanted to build his own supercomputer.
Mr Khanna now owns 16 PS3s, which spend their days simulating the activities of very large black holes in the universe for the physics department at the University of Massachusetts.
Hooked together in a single cluster, the PS3 consoles provide his department with the same amount of computing power as a 400-node supercomputer.
Full article at Digital Life
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Posted by maysvill on Saturday, March 08 @ 12:16:15 CST
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| General: New Nine Inch Nails album released under Creative Commons License | |
ewiget writes "The new Nine Inch Nails album, called Ghosts I-IV, has been released under the Creative Commons License.
From the homepage: "Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I - IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
Trent Reznor explains, "I've been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn't have made sense until this point. This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective - dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams. I'm very pleased with the result and the ability to present it directly to you without interference. I hope you enjoy the first four volumes of Ghosts.""
From the FAQ: " Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license."
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Posted by maysvill on Saturday, March 08 @ 12:07:36 CST
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| General: Free Ubuntu Training | |
Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course became available on Ubuntu Wiki as two pdf files: for students and instructors. Here are few points about this course:
There are 10 lessons in total with the last lesson covering Partitioning and Booting optional. The course is modular - 2 days if all lessons are covered however, topics and lessons can be selected as required.
There will also be a book version of the courseware which you will be able to purchase online. This will be formatted slightly differently to reduce the page numbers and make the content overall ready for print production, but the content and copyright will remain the same.
The course content is released under Creative Commons
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Posted by maysvill on Tuesday, January 08 @ 20:12:30 CST
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| General: Review of Freespire 2.0.6 | |
 I have started a review of Freespire 2.0.6 in the Reviews section. I have a lot of images to get uploaded and plan on doing that over the next few days. I had originally planned and started a review of Freespire 1.x but felt that it needed to mature a little first. I really liked the concept and idea behind freespire, but just felt it had some issues in the early versions. After using Freespire 2.x for a few days now, I can say those early problems have been fixed.
I will be going back to the "old style / format" of the reviews, where I document everything from installation to daily use of a new distribution for approximately 1 month. I will update the review as often as I can and I generally use a new page for each update to the article. I always document the basic usage, features that make the distribution unique, and any problems I find, along with general likes and dislikes.
Check it out and look forward to other distributions coming soon.
thanks,
ed
Updated 11-15-2007 - There are now 5 pages to this review, of which 3 pages are installation screenshots. I will have more soon!
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Posted by ewiget on Saturday, October 27 @ 23:27:03 CDT
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| General: Free Online Linux Programming Courses | |
ewiget writes "While surfing the internet, I found a web site that offers multiple levels of Linux Programming courses for free. The name of the web site is ICanProgram.com
There are multiple levels of programming, aimed at the newbie new to programming to more advanced tcl/tk and python programming. All that is required is that you submit a donation to your local cancer research charity. Students are accepted in lots of 30. Classes are online. Current registration is for summer 2007.
Check out the web site for more information. "
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Posted by maysvill on Wednesday, May 23 @ 07:21:33 CDT
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| General: Make the Move! | |
ewiget writes " A new web site is on the web entitled, Make The Move. Make The Move aims to present Linux and open source software as viable alternatives to the system on your computer.
These alternatives are both free (as in price) and free (as in freedom), and put you back in control of your system.
This site is designed to flow from the What is FOSS? section, however you may skip straight to any other.
Check out the web site at http://makethemove.net "
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Posted by maysvill on Friday, January 12 @ 19:53:04 CST
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| General: TUX magazine calls it quits | |
Tux magazine, billed as "The first and only magazine for the new Linux user," has published its last issue, according to a New Year's Day announcement by publisher Phil Hughes. The magazine had achieved a circulation of over 100,000 readers, Hughes said.
"While we have received an amazing amount of positive feedback about the magazine, the financial reality of the situation made it impossible for us to continue publishing Tux," Hughes said. "Current revenues didn't cover current costs, much less allow us to expand the publication as we wished."
 Tux was an electronic publication, available for download in PDF format for $9.95 per year from its website.
"For those that had a paid subscription, you have been sent email with your options," added Hughes.
Tux was originally owned and published by SSC, which had also published Linux Journal magazine since 1994. Hughes, founder of Linux Journal, left SSC late last year to form Tux Media Ltd., which acquired Tux from SSC.
Linux Journal, meanwhile, was acquired from SSC in December of 2006 by Belltown Media Inc., based in Houston, Texas. Belltown Media, in turn, was founded by Carlie Fairchild, who had worked closely with Hughes for over ten years.
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Posted by ewiget on Tuesday, January 02 @ 11:50:12 CST
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| General: Schools Moving to Linux | |
This article is reprinted from DesktopLinux.com
School districts around the world are increasingly examining the benefits of utilizing open-source software -- whether on servers and desktops, or via so-called Web 2.0 services freely available online. The Plano, Texas, school district is a recent example of this trend, according to an article published on eSchoolNews.com.
Note: Article was reprinted from DesktopLinux.com
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Posted by ewiget on Saturday, December 16 @ 11:36:37 CST
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