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PCLinuxOS Magazine, October 2007 (Issue 14) is available to download. We apologize for the delay in this release; final touches on the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website helped prevent us from releasing yesterday. If you'd like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list.
"...RMS will be in Bogoto, Columbia on 10 October, speaking about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software movement. On the 12th and 13th of October, he'll be San Jose, Costa Rica talking about software patents and how they obstruct software development (at the first talk) and about the history and status of the GNU Operating System (at the second talk).
"The Rumbling Edge Thunderbird 2 survey (version 1) ran for three weeks, from 29 October 2007 till 18 November 2007, and there were just under seven hundred complete responses, a thousand if partial ones are to be included. A similar number (1,022 to be exact) were abandoned.
This isn't a howto guide, this is only to show that its currently possible to Install and run Office 2007 in Wine on Linux. This video only shows the actual install of Office 2007 and Word 2007 running, the video posted on December 17th 2007 shows Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 and a couple other Office 2007 apps running.
2007. What a year. Ubuntu cranked out two more solid releases, sub-$500 laptops flooded the market and undermined Microsoft's influence, and 3D desktop effects continued to improve. The DistroWatch charts were invaded by Texans, and several new distros appeared on the scene, while existing ones (Mint, Sabayon) joined the ranks of the Top 10. And what a Top 10 it is...
"The best known GNU/Linux hacker Richard Stallman was in Costa Rica since October 12th until October 13th, 2007. He spoke about the “free software”, the GNU project and the work of the Free Software Foundation. Stallman made two shows.
Thanks to generous sponsorship you can promote your Open Source project, group or campaign FREE in the .ORG village (sponsored by uklinux.net) at LinuxWorld Expo 2007 (London Olympia 2, 23rd & 24th October 2007). Closing date for applying for space in the .ORG village is 31st July 2007.
