Published in http://www.infoworld.com: European car manufacturing giant PSA Peugeot Citroën has agreed to one of the Continent’s largest-ever deployments of open-source Linux software on desktop computers.

As part of a multiyear contract with Novell, the French company will install Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop on up to 20,000 computers in addition to 2,500 servers, the U.S. software vendor said Tuesday.

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Publicado originalmente en Meneame, por steve-o: La Guademy es una reunión donde desarrolladores de los escritorios libres KDE y GNOME comparten sesiones de trabajo con personas interesadas en colaborar con ambos proyectos. Este año se va a celebrar la primera edición en la Facultad de Informática de La Coruña con la organización de GPUL y la colaboración de GNOME-Hispano y KDE-Hispano. Se ha abierto el Call For Hacking para los interesados en participar. ¿Quién dijo que había guerra entre KDE y GNOME?

¿Qué es la Guademy?

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From slashdot: “On Sunday afternoon, the Free Standards Group (FSG) signed an agreement to combine forces with Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to form a new organization — The Linux Foundation. The result of this consolidation will be to dedicate the resources of the combined membership to ‘accelerate the growth of Linux by providing a comprehensive set of services to compete effectively with closed platforms.’ Jim Zemlin, currently the head of FSG, will lead the new organization as its Executive Director. The new organization will continue to support Linux in a variety of ways, including by providing economic support to Linus Torvalds and other key kernel developers, managing the Linux trademark, and providing legal protection to developers through such initiatives as the Open Source as Prior Art project, the Patent Commons, and the Linux Legal Defense Fund. All in all, a tall order, but eminently possible given its membership: The Linux Foundation’s founding members will include every major company in the Linux industry, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell, Oracle and Red Hat, as well as many community groups, universities and industry end users.”

We have discovered a nice place that provides a lot of howtos and Linux tutorials. The site is Howtoforge and is really up to date and the tutorials are well categorized. Well, they need a tutorial about installing Pandora or Babel to monitor a network. Is anyone ready to write one?

FOSDEM 2007 will take place the 24th and 25th February 2007 in Brussels, Belgium .

The seventh Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognised as “The best Free and Open Source events in Europe.”

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From slashdot.org: “Serge Wroclawski recently contacted Dell to request a refund on the unwanted copy of Windows XP that came pre-installed on his computer. Somewhat surprisingly, Dell complied. Wroclawski admits that the $52.50 refund was more of a victory in principle than anything else, but it was a success nonetheless. Using his tips and techniques readers can try their hand at getting a refund of their own. Wroclawski cautions that you should be prepared for a long haul: the process could take hours.” Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

From Slashdot.org:

An anonymous reader writes to mention WebExpose is running a quick guide to get Internet Explorer 7.0 running on Linux. From the article: “Microsoft conditional comments do work, unlike the standalone version of IE on Windows, so you will be able to develop and test webpages across almost all major browsers (IE 5-7, Firefox, Opera) on one Linux box! Also note that we will avoid Microsoft’s Genuine Advantage download validation checks, so pure-Linux users will be able to finish the process without having to find a genuine Windows machine to download the IE7 setup file (the check is avoided legitimately, by the way).”

From slashdot.org: Kelson writes to tell us about a Fedora Weekly News article reporting that, beginning with Fedora 7, the distinction between Core and Extras will cease to exist. This development comes out of the Fedora summit held in November. From the article: “Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras; there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires.” Kelson adds: “The post goes on to list three ’spins’ they plan to introduce at Fedora 7’s April release: server, desktop and KDE. Presumably these would be 1-disc installation sets, with further packages downloaded over the network, rather than the 5-CD collection needed to install Fedora 6.”

Interesting article of Computerworld.

50% of businesses will be using Linux for critical roles in five years.

Perhaps is only a wish in a new year. The same article in spanish here

THE TAMIL Nadu state government will shift from an operation that is 99 percent VoleWare to Open Sauce software over the next year.In an interview with the Deccan Chronicle, Mr C Umashankar, who is the managing director of state-owned Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), which is running the project, said that India does not need Vole.

Umashankar said that his government is fast migrating to Linux operating systems which are so much cheaper and can be operated at low cost, besides offering continuous updates and freedom from viruses.

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Ideal for begginers in AJAX (like me):

http://simplejs.bleebot.com/
SimpleJS is a javascript library simple and light proposing functions ready with the use to facilitate the exploitation of ajax.

Developed primarily for the beginners and the small projects, SimpleJS is a library without claim and donot can in no case to be compared with Prototype or another professional framework.

SimpleJS weighs 14kb and does not require any external framework. The functions are very simplified.

http://my.opera.com/suribe/blog/show.dml/639564

Es usual leer en foros y sitios de tecnología que el próximo año, sea cual sea, será El Año de Linux 1,2, aquel año donde Linux aparezca como una real alternativa a sistemas operativos propietarios, especialmente frente al gigante de Redmond.
Yo creo que el 2006 ha sido EL Año de Linux, al fin luego de 15 años del mensaje que cambió al mundo del PC.

Las razones, sin ningún orden en particular

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Los días 7, 8 y 9 de febrero de 2007 se va a desarrollar la Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre 3.0 en el Palacio de Congresos Manuel Rojas de Badajoz (España). Está organizada conjuntamente por la Junta de Extremadura y la Junta de Andalucía en base a su acuerdo de colaboración para el desarrollo y la promoción del Software Libre. Cualquier especialista que lo desee, puede presentar su comunicación para participar en la Conferencia enviando los resúmenes o “abstracts” de los trabajos que desea exponer a la dirección de correo electrónico papers@freesoftwareworldconference.com

7,8 and 9 of Feb. will be developed the third Free Software International Conference, in Palacio de Congresos Manuel Rojas, in Badajoz, Spain. Any expert could present our work, sending an email to papers@freesoftwareworldconference.com

The code for the Falcon Storage Engine for MySQL has been released as open source. Jim Starkey, known as the father of Interbase, is behind its creation; previously he was involved with the Firebird SQL database project. Falcon looks to be the long-awaited open source storage engine that may become the primary choice for MySQL, and along the way offer some innovation and performance improvements over current alternatives.” This is an alpha release for Windows (32-bit) and Linux (32- and 64-bit) only, and is available only in a specially forked release of MySQL 5.1.

(original published on slashdot.org)