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Issue : 28
Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )
Date : 13092009
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Contents
1. Skype 2.1 Beta Brings New Features To Linux
2. OpenSourc3 The Open Source Unified Computing Magazine
3. 7 reasons to use Debian
4. Slackware 13.0 is released
5. Repair Damaged Drives With Linux
6. Ubuntu Developer Week
7. Canonical adds Advanced Ubuntu Service and Support Offering
8. Women in Linux
9. 60 Thousand Russian Teachers Will Learn Linux by the End of 2009
10. Railslike Quickly tools brings rapid development to Ubuntu
11. SELF Coursebook: Introduction to Free Software
1. Skype 2.1 Beta Brings New Features To Linux
For anyone that extensively uses Skype on Linux, you will probably want to head on over to the
Linux Skype Developer page to fetch the latest beta. Skype has just rolled out the first 2.1 beta
(2.1.0.47 Beta) of the Linux Skype client, which adds several new
features and also brings a number of fixes and other improvements.
The new Skype Linux features are high quality video codec support,
Skype's SILK audio codec support, PulseAudio compatibility, SMS
sending support, chat messaging editing/removing capabilities,
contact groups support, typing notification in chat, chat picture
support, mood messages, video/mobile icons are now visible in the
contact list along with bookmarked chats, and also added are contact
labels/tags.
The complete changelog is available from the developer release notes
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzQ5MA
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2. OpenSourc3 The Open Source Unified Computing Magazine
Welcome to the premier Unified Computing magazine for
Information Technology Professionals. Published on a monthly
basis, opensourc3 is available for FREE download in PDF
format, or can be read online.
Unified Computing is nextgeneration data center technology
that unifies virtualization, networking, storage and compute
resources into a single system. This centrally managed system
enables endtoend provisioning, management, monitoring and
awareness within the data center.
http://www.opensourc3.org/
Download the 2nd Issue at
http://download.opensourc3.org/pdf/issue2.pdf
3. 7 reasons to use Debian
1. Stable
2. 2. Debian offers stable, old stable, testing, *and* sid
3. The DFSG
4. Debian is one of the oldest distributions
5. Very rich documentation
6. Many distributions are based on Debian
7. Great community
http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/08/7reasonstousedebian.html
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4. Slackware 13.0 is released
Yes it's that time again! After many months of development and careful
testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.0!
We are sure you'll agree that the improvements made in this release more
than warrant the major version bump up from the 12.x series. We've done our
best to bring the latest technology to Slackware while still maintaining the
stability and security that you have come to expect. Slackware is well known
for it's simplicity and the fact that we try to bring software to you in the
condition that the authors intended.
Downloading Slackware 13.0:
The full version of Slackware Linux 13.0 is
available for download from
the central Slackware FTP sites hosted by our friends at www.cwo.com
and osuosl.org:
ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware13.0/
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware13.0/
http://www.slackware.com/announce/13.0.php
5. Repair Damaged Drives With Linux
Has your OS installation gone bad? Grab a Live CD and follow our guide to rescuing rogue
partitions
Learn on
Booting Linux
Booting Windows
Restoring the MBR
Fixing the Partition Table
Backup your Data
Restore deleted files
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3108/
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6. Ubuntu Developer Week
Ubuntu Developer Week is celebrated in IRC last week.
Every day nearly 350 participants learned on Ubuntu
Development Processes.
The class logs are available here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/
7. Canonical adds Advanced Ubuntu Service and Support Offering
Premium Service Engineer provides support for missioncritical and complex Ubuntu environments
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu project, announced an advanced service and support
offering that gives large enterprises with complex IT environments a highlyskilled, dedicated
Canonical support professional.
Premium Service Engineer (PSE), a new level of support for large enterprises, offers a single point
of contact for Canonical’s large customers – enabling a faster response time and faster issue
resolution. PSEs have access to all levels of support, including Canonical’s platform engineers.
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/advancedubuntuservicessupport
8. Women in Linux
Women in Linux (or technology in general) has always been a
rare breed. I have been very unsuccessful trying to make my
female friends or family members getting interested in linux. So
in my quest in getting more women interested in linux I have
made this list of women who have actively contributed in linux
community. This list doesn’t include women in just open source
community (like Mitchell Baker of Mozilla Foundation) but
more specifically women with notable contribution in linux
community. This list is in no particular order.
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http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/07/28/womeninlinux/
9. 60 Thousand Russian Teachers Will Learn Linux by the End of 2009
Various initiatives emerge in Russia that are all intended to promote opensource software that is
considered to be more friendly to the national interests of the country. One of such initiatives is
transition of Russian schools from Microsoft products (that are often pirated and could thus easily
become a reason for huge problems for teachers) to opensource products, including Linux and
Open Office.
http://profy.com/2009/08/20/russianteacherswilllearnlinuxby2010/
10. Railslike Quickly tools brings rapid development to Ubuntu
Canonical has created a new framework for Ubuntu called Quickly that aims to
accelerate application development. It provides a set of command line tools for
generating new programming projects, building packages, and releasing
software.
http://arstechnica.com/opensource/news/2009/08/quicklynewrailslikerapiddevelopmenttools
forubuntu.ars
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11. SELF Coursebook: Introduction to Free Software
A first book has been published by the SELF Project. Introduction to Free Software has been
produced together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) with a number of recognised
authors on the subjects of Free Software. The book provides an introduction to the inspiring world
of Free Software, covering its main concepts, some of the most successful free software projects, the
specifics of their development and the legal basis that free software licenses provide for the
protection of users' freedoms. It also contains a large directory of glossary, bibliography and links to
help the reader explore deeper into this field.
http://selfproject.eu/en/Coursebook_Intro_Free_Software
http://selfproject.eu/en/system/files/Introduction_to_FSSELF.pdf
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