Today we share with you an interview with Dr. Leon Brin, professor, mathematician and maintainer of Mathbuntu a set of scripts that enhances an Ubuntu based distribution with mathematical software. Leon tells us the story behind Mathbuntu and how you can help the project. Enjoy!
Read more »An Interview with Leon Brin, maintainer of Mathbuntu
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Interview with the Sage Mathematics Software Project
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Today we have for you an interview with the developers of the Sage mathematics system project. Note that the answers were given as a team. Sage is an open source project that provides an environment very similar to Matlab, Maple and other proprietary well known mathematics systems. It is widely used in academia and scientific research. Version 5.0 was released in mid-May 2012. Enjoy the interview!
Read more »Linux More Viable Than Vista 8 for Gaming
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Some of the Valve's employees were present during the Ubuntu Developers' Summit and discussed the future of Steam on Ubuntu in particular, and Linux in general.
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Why do super computers use GNU/Linux?
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Over 90% of the world's supercomputers employ GNU/Linux as their operating system. Here are six reasons why.
Read more »Barclays To Save ‘Billions’ With Own Cloud And FLOSS
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According to sources, Barclays saved 90 percent of its IT budget by avoiding products from Microsoft, Google, Oracle and SAP. Barclays often leads the way in technology adoption among the high street banks.
Read more »Koha 3.10 demo
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Koha 3.10 was released and so it’s time for a free Koha 3.10 demo, covering what Koha can do for your library with a focus on the newest features in this release.
Read more »Namaste! LMS - Free Wordpress Learning Management System
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Namaste! LMS is a Free
Learning Management System
For WordPress
Namaste! LMS supports unlimited courses and lessons with very flexible access to each of them. You can create assignments, manage students, add notes, and more.
Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?
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Google users can still send subscription requests to contacts whose accounts are hosted elsewhere. But they cannot accept incoming requests. This change is akin to Google no longer accepting incoming e-mail for @gmail.com addresses from non-Google domains. That would be unthinkable.
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Linux Foundation Training Prepares the International Space Station for GNU/Linux Migration
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It’s hard to get tech support 400 kilometers away from the Earth, which is why Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor deeply involved in Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) operations, decided to migrate to GNU/Linux. "we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control."
Read more »Google reinstates federated Jabber/XMPP instant messaging
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A few weeks ago FSF have reported that Google had started blocking invites sent from non-Google Jabber servers. This was done as a crude anti-spam measure. Google have since rolled out proper anti-spam filtering for its Jabber service, and has removed the invite block. This was announced a few days ago in a public mailing list post.
Read more »International Space Station to Run Debian 6
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Dozens of laptops will make the change to Debian 6. They join many other systems aboard the ISS that already run various flavors of GNU/Linux, such as Red Hat and Scientific Linux. Of high priority is having an OS which gives in-house control.
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