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Submission + - PJ rides again (groklaw.net) 2

Submitted by thorpie on Sunday July 27, 2014 @04:46AM

thorpie writes: There is a new headline link on Groklaw, from July 22 2014 — U.K. Cabinet Office Adopts ODF as Exclusive Standard for Sharable Documents.
Is she back? or is it a one off?

Submission + - Valencia Linux school distro saves 36 million euro (europa.eu)

Submitted by jrepin on Saturday July 26, 2014 @05:56AM

jrepin writes: The government of the autonomous region of Valencia (Spain) earlier this month made available the next version of Lliurex, a customisation of the Edubuntu Linux distribution. The distro is used on over 110,000 PCs in schools in the Valencia region, saving some 36 million euro over the past nine years, the government says.

Submission + - GNU Guix 0.7 released (gnu.org)

Submitted by davexunit on Friday July 25, 2014 @10:42AM

davexunit writes: GNU Guix, the purely functional package manager and distribution of the GNU operating system, has made a new alpha release. This release features an installation disk image of the GNU system for i686 and x86_64 platforms, 130 new packages, and an improved developer's API.

A description of Guix is provided in the full release notes:
In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. It also offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, with Guile Scheme programming interfaces.

Submission + - Switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice saves Toulouse 1 million euro (europa.eu)

Submitted by jrepin on Friday July 25, 2014 @09:15AM

jrepin writes: The French city of Toulouse saved 1 million euro by migrating all its desktops from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. This project was rooted in a global digital policy which positions free software as a driver of local economic development and employment.

Submission + - EFF releases wireless router firmware for open access points

Submitted by klapaucjusz on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @02:29PM

klapaucjusz writes: The EFF has released an experimental router firmware designed make it easy to deploy open (password-less) access points in a secure manner. The EFF's firmware is based on the CeroWRT fork of OpenWRT, but appears to remove some of its more advanced routing features.

Submission + - U.K. Cabinet Office Adopts ODF as Exclusive Standard for Sharable Documents (consortiuminfo.org)

Submitted by Andy Updegrove on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @02:10PM

Andy Updegrove writes: The U.K. Cabinet Office accomplished today what the Commonwealth of Massachusetts set out (unsuccessfully) to achieve ten years ago: it formally required compliance with the Open Document Format (ODF) by software to be purchased in the future across all government bodies. Compliance with any of the existing versions of OOXML, the competing document format championed by Microsoft, is neither required nor relevant. The announcement was made today by The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude. Henceforth, ODF compliance will be required for documents intended to be shared or subject to collaboration. PDF/A or HTML compliance will be required for viewable government documents. The decision follows a long process that invited, and received, very extensive public input – over 500 comments in all.

Submission + - Inside Linux creator Linus Torvalds' home office (linux.com)

Submitted by LibbyMC on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:11PM

LibbyMC writes: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has given a personal video tour of his workspace, filmed by the Linux Foundation. It also includes behind the scenes laughs and footage, as well as a closer look at what he keeps on his desk and what he does between kernel releases.

Submission + - X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: The much anticipated Xorg Server 1.16 release is now available. The X.Org "Marionberry Pie" release features XWayland integration, GLAMOR support, systemd support, and many other features. XWayland support allows for legacy X11 support in Wayland environments via GL acceleration, GLAMOR provides generic 2D acceleration, non-PCI GPU device improvements, and countless other changes.

Submission + - Dropbox switches to Qt for Linux client (themukt.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:35AM

sfcrazy writes: A Dropbox user Nicholas v. pointed it out on the forums: "Very excited about the rewrite for linux. It’s been a long time coming. Hopefully we’ll end up getting some of the glitz and glamour of the other platforms as a result. (Oh – and also very excited that it’s Qt!)" I checked it out on my Plasma system and it really looks far better than earlier.

Submission + - Mozilla Launching Cheapest Smartphones in India: Is it a Gamechanger (zopper.com)

Submitted by Jitendravaswani on Thursday July 17, 2014 @05:37AM

Jitendravaswani writes: Mozilla Launching Cheapest Smartphones in India: Is it a Gamechanger. According to the reports, Mozilla is about to launch inexpensive Firefox OS Smartphone’s in India at $50 (Rs 3000)

Submission + - Detailed review of Plasma 5 (themukt.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @10:01PM

sfcrazy writes: The much awaited Plasma 5 has been announced today, which marks a new chapter in the story of KDE software. Plasma 5 is the next generation desktop by the KDE community; it’s the evolution of KDE’s desktop which started taking a new shape with the release of ‘revolutionary’ KDE 4.0.

Submission + - NSA Admits Retaining Snowden Emails, no FOIA for US press (matthewkeys.net)

Submitted by AHuxley on Saturday July 12, 2014 @04:19AM

AHuxley writes: The http://thedesk.matthewkeys.net... reports on a FOIA request covering "... all e-mails sent by Edward Snowden"
Remember how Snowden should have raised his concerns with his superiors within the NSA?
Remember how no such communication could be found?
Remember how one such communication was released but did not seem to be raising direct concerns?
Well some record of e-mail communications seems to exist but they are exempt from public disclosure under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Submission + - The Q Platform uses Linux/OpenWRT to Control LED Light Bulbs and Stream Audio 1

Submitted by dmtaub on Friday July 11, 2014 @08:16AM

dmtaub writes: The Q is the only Open Source platform for music and light control on the market. In addition to using a smartphone to play music, set alarms/alerts, and trigger scenes, the Q will have a scripting IDE on the router configuration web page for aspiring programmers to play with light and sound.
There are only a few days left on the Kickstarter ( http://kck.st/1pCusil ) so now's the time to show support for a hackable smart-home platform that integrates music with colorful LED light bulbs.

Full disclosure: I am one of the co founders. Even though I am not working for them anymore, I still really want to see open-source, hackable LED lighting make its way to the masses.

Submission + - CentOS 6.5 vs. CentOS 7.0 NAS Performance Comparison (flexense.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 10, 2014 @02:42PM

Submission + - New Project to Get a Linux Distribution to run under Google's NaCl Sandbox (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 10, 2014 @09:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: Currently there is several challenges to getting Linux to run in the NaCl Sandbox inside Chrome.
I decided to approach an Google NaCl engineer with the idea. To say the least they are very interested in getting the broader community to work on fixing the following problems: Currently NaCl doesn't support pipes, most signals, nor symbolic links. Also supporting traditional fork is not currently possible in an efficient way. A custom spawn call is used. Forking and vFork are also are open ended issues. I think this would make for several great topics of master's thesis but have not found any place anywhere where one can submit ideas to that gets the attention the idea deserves. I have created a project here https://sourceforge.net/but have gotten no traffic on the idea at all. Slashdot users, how would you gather contributors to a really cool open source project?

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