nyhende: January 2006

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

WSJ.com - A Hundred Books in Your Pocket

Can Bill even give his software away? A hundred dollars says he can't - ZDNet UK Comment

Can Bill even give his software away? A hundred dollars says he can't - ZDNet UK Comment: "The most curious effect of the $100 laptop isn’t how it’s affecting the very poor, more what it’s doing to the very rich"

Computerworld | Nokia releases code to open source community

LinuxElectrons - Red Hat Teams with MIT Media Lab to Bring $100 Student Laptops to Developing Nations, Emerging Markets

LinuxElectrons - Red Hat Teams with MIT Media Lab to Bring $100 Student Laptops to Developing Nations, Emerging Markets: "'At Red Hat, we believe that open source technology can change the world, and is still in its infancy. It's a guiding principle that is embodied in everything we do,' said Matthew Szulik, chairman, president and CEO of Red Hat. "

World digitally divided by price as well as bandwidth | eGov monitor

NewsForge | My desktop OS: Ubuntu

Google at work on desktop Linux | Channel Register

Google at work on desktop Linux | Channel Register: "Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, but declined to supply further details, including what the project is for."

Monday, January 30, 2006

PCWorld.com - Free Agent: Ubuntu's Missing Batteries

Saturday, January 28, 2006

'African UNESCO' gets go-ahead - SciDev.Net

LXer: Linux Growth in Developing Countries Soaring Past Microsoft

LXer: Linux Growth in Developing Countries Soaring Past Microsoft: "I understand how the people in India and China think. That same thinking also prevails in Latin America. The educated class has all the money and the vast majority of people have no way to rise on the social ladder. Without education, we cannot compete. even with education, it's hard to get a job. But, you can find jobs, it's just difficult."

Thursday, January 26, 2006

USATODAY.com - U.N. lends backing to $100 laptop school program

adn.com | alaska : State rebuffs raw vote demand

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

DO Channel - Homepage / current:news

DO Channel - Homepage / current:news: "India has finally passed an information legislation, and much to the government’s credit, it has kept its promise of making the newly formulated Right to Information (RTI) Act participatory, progressive and meaningful. Now, however, is the time to move as efficiently and effectively as possible from a duty to furnish information regime to a duty to publish one. "

Friday, January 20, 2006

Gmail Filesystem

Gmail Filesystem: "Gmail Filesystem provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. Gmail Filesystem is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

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About Koha

About Koha: "Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha's impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base."

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

NewsForge | TurboCASH debates moving to Linux

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | E-read all about it

Linux.com | Building a Linux home media center

Linux.com | Building a Linux home media center: "The LHMC has been rock solid since I set it up. It has handled all of the tasks that I planned to use it for and then some. The wow factor that I get when people visit is nice too."

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Linux News: Business : World's Second Linux Standards Testing Lab Settles in China

Linux News: Business : World's Second Linux Standards Testing Lab Settles in China: "'It will help promote Linux education and awareness among Chinese IT companies and cut the cost of homemade Linux operating systems,' said Mo Wei, director of the China Electronics Standardization Institute, adding that the lab will provide statistical evidence for the forthcoming national Linux standard."

TECTONIC: African FOSS is on a firm footing: Kagai

TECTONIC: African FOSS is on a firm footing: Kagai: "The conference slogan is: 'Achieving millennium development goals through community software'. "

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Vanguard - Technology : Open source: The future of IT in Nigeria

Vanguard - Technology : Open source: The future of IT in Nigeria: "As a recent UN summit put it, “to get the economy of a developing country going, its government must stamp out corruption, ramp up efficiency and use open-source technology to build a cheap, reliable information infrastructure...” "