http://www.linux.com/feature/127801

The GNOME Foundation has turned its attention to accessibility for people with disabilities. To help improve both Web accessibility within GNOME and the project’s long-term direction, the Mozilla Foundation is joining the GNOME advisory board, and plans to help improve integration of the XUL development platform with GNOME. Even more significantly, the GNOME Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, Novell, Google, and Canonical are jointly sponsoring a $50,000 outreach program to help improve accessibility in GNOME. (more…)

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From the concept of copyleft to the status of community projects, free and open source software (FOSS) raises endless legal issues, many of which are subject to rumors and misconceptions floating around the community. To help reduce the confusion for those managing software projects, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has released a freely distributable guide entitled “A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects.” Although only 45 pages long — shorter if you don’t count the front matter — the primer still manages to provide a highly structured introduction to these issues that carefully outlines options and is full of practical advice. (more…)

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Com One’s Phoenix Wi-Fi radio is a home music appliance built on an embedded Linux foundation. Phoenix lets you stream music or play podcasts as easily as you can listen to a car radio, once you tell it what you want to hear. Its ability to play Internet radio is nice — but is it worth its price? (more…)

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Habla sepultando silencios. Con calma, pero sin pausa. Sus ideas brotan de una manera exacta. Y no sobra una palabra. Después de más de una década como ciberactivista, Marcelo Branco escupe verdades, casi teoremas. Branco, que comenzó fundando el influyente movimiento de software libre [aquél que puede ser libremente copiado y distribuido] de Brasil, es considerado uno de los grandes gurús de la contracultura digital. Fue consultor del Gobierno de Lula y trabajó para la Generalitat de Catalunya como asesor en la estrategia del software libre. (more…)

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Elonex has rolled out its sub-£100 Linux-based laptop, the One, but it looks like it’s going to prove harder get hold of than Asus Eee PC has been.

Elonex today unveiled black, pink, green, white and silver Ones to whet buyers’ appetites. However, it admitted that the initial batch with comprise just 200,000 machines, none of which will go out to punters until June.

Want to get in the queue nice and early? Then Elonex will happily take a tenner and reserve one for you.

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Today a new feedback site is launched at brainstorm.ubuntu.com that will make it easier for users of Ubuntu to suggests ideas for improvements. Voting makes it clear which ideas have the most support in the user community and should be given priority. We have of course been inspired by the IdeaStorm site from our good friends at Dell but modified the concept to fit our needs.

The development team can now take the pulse on the most pressing user issues and propose the ideas as topics at the Ubuntu Development Summits and ultimately as specifications. Ubuntu development is in turn driven by detailed specifications written up in the wiki and tracked as blueprints in Launchpad.

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Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices.
Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world’s most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing.

Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open source project, gives full Internet, with no compromise. Custom options may include licensed codecs and popular third-party applications. (more…)

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Se trata de la sanción más alta impuesta por la UE, las multas europeas de Microsoft se elevan a 1.700 millones de euros por prácticas monopolísticas

La Comisión Europea ha impuesto hoy a Microsoft una nueva multa de 899 millones de euros, la más alta de la historia de la UE a una única empresa, por cobrar un precio excesivo por la información que suministra a sus rivales para que puedan fabricar productos compatibles con su sistema operativo Windows. (more…)

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Los dispositivos móviles están triunfando, y la distribución más popular de la actualidad no quiere dejar de dar a sus usuarios la oportunidad de disfrutar de las virtudes del sistema operativo Linux, que demuestra su versatilidad adaptándose a la informática móvil.

La adaptación de la distribución Ubuntu permitirá a los usuarios de los denominados Mobile Internet Device aprovechar toda la capacidad del hardware que integran gracias al soporte de aplicaciones, tecnologías  y códecs multimedia que permitirán utilizarlos con una distribución y un proyecto totalmente Open Source.

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http://www.pcworld.com/

Adobe Systems plans to extend its AIR software to Linux later this year, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch says.

Adobe Systems plans to extend its AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software to Linux later this year, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said during the company’s Engage event in San Francisco today.

Formerly called Apollo, AIR is the company’s runtime enabling RIAs (rich Internet applications) to run offline on the desktop. Right now, AIR 1.0, which debuted Monday, is limited to Windows and Macintosh systems.

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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/

A quick and easy intro to writing device drivers for Linux like a true kernel developer!

“Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?” Linus Torvalds
Pre-requisites

In order to develop Linux device drivers, it is necessary to have an understanding of the following:

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Last month the Parsix Linux distribution made its 1.0 release after almost a year of development. Parsix is a GNOME-based distro based on the testing branch of Debian GNU/Linux with elements from Kanotix. It makes an attractive alternative to Ubuntu.

Parsix comes as an installable live CD and features GNOME 2.20.3 as the desktop. It hails from Persia, but the language and keyboard default to en_US. When you first boot the live CD, Parsix provides two handy boot options for wide-screen display resolutions. Many distros auto-detect the optimal resolution, but many don’t. This approach is a great compromise, and assured that I was able to boot into my desired resolution. (more…)

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Una vez más Uptodown, uno de los principales portales de descarga de software del mercado, dependiente de la empresa malagueña Media Ingea, amplia su oferta con la apertura de la plataforma Linux.

El lanzamiento nace con la incorporación de programas de Ubuntu, por ser una de las distribuciones que más importancia y repercusión esta tomando actualmente, aunque breve serán introducidas otras distribuciones a la lista.

La herramienta de descarga ofrecerá una amplia oferta con distintas categorías entre ellas de negocios, multimedia, programación, utilidades, etc.

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Los ordenadores baratos triunfan en EEUU y llegarán a España en abril

Por qué pagar 1.000 euros por un ordenador? Ésta es la pregunta que han debido hacerse los consumidores de Estados Unidos que están comprando equipos con un precio imbatible, alrededor de 200 dólares (unos 137 euros al cambio actual), como los Everex gPC, Mirus Linux o el Asus Eee. En Asus Ibérica confirman que van a lanzar elAsus Eee en España a finales de abril, aunque el precio noha sido establecido aún.

El truco está en que los fabricantes apuestan por instalar una distribución del sistema operativo libre GNU/Linux y que los componentes de estos equipos ofrezcan menos prestaciones que los de los ordenadores más punteros, lo que les permite abaratar costes. Este tipo de aparatos se venden tanto en formato sobremesa (el monitor no está incluido) como en forma deultraportátiles, con una pantalla de 7 pulgadas y un coste
ligeramente superior.

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/

Sun said Tuesday that it has completed the purchase of MySQL for $1 billion and CEO Jonathan Schwartz indicated the company plans to keep shopping for open source acquisitions.

“Open source is really in the DNA of Sun,” said Schwartz on a conference call to trumpet MySQL as a transforming acquisition. Schwartz also added that Sun was “looking forward to more tuck in acquisitions on the open source front.”

Schwartz wasn’t going to name what companies were on his acquisition list, but he did outline some key attributes. Open source companies with “high integrity” communities, broad distribution and some commercial success would be fine tuck in acquisitions. “We believe we’re a natural home for a lot of them,” said Schwartz.

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