Romania Proprietary licence deal draws ire open source proponents  The Romanian government is about to spend millions of euro on proprietary software, drawing flak from the country’s budding open source movement. “This government is out of touch with reality.”

Fedora 11 Leonidas is Hardly a Spartan Linux has been released, it has faster performance and new security, virtualization, desktop and server features. Here are top applications that you can add to your fedora 11

Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” released! The team of LinuMint announced today the release of Linux Mint 7 “Gloria The 7th release of Linux Mint comes with numerous bug fixes and a lot of improvements. In particular the menu system, the … Continue reading →

 OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source open software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. You can adjust openoffice to your needs by adding more … Continue reading →

The freenx-server (on F10) is not working fine , here a little howto for configuring it. Valid for freenx-server 0.7.3 for Fedora 10 Before starting, you should be sure that you have a running and working ssh daemon.

Question : How to  convert RHEL5 to Centos 5,x ?   (tutorial updated 11/11/2009) Answer : Some times you have to change from paid world to the free world, this is the way to convert your paid or your non licensed … Continue reading →

Socialist Party in Spain wants open source on school laptops Spain’s socialist party (PSOE) wants the laptops that are to be disseminated to 420,000 school students in September to be equipped with open source software.

The USB Linux installation enables you to install a portable Linux operating SYSTEM on a flash drive or USB key no larger than your thumb (thumbdrive). This portable Linux operating system can then be run from any computer that can … Continue reading →

Plonegov Italy officially launched  The Italian chapter of Plonegov, an international project to develop open source e-government applications using the Plone open source content management system, was launched officially today at a conference in Sorrento, in southern Italy.

Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you’ll ever need, from word processing and email applications, … Continue reading →