Debian developer passed away

With deep apology, the free software community was Shocked to death of the famous developer Ian Murdock who passed away at age of 42 years, He was one of the biggest supporters of free software and open source, and the spiritual father of the project Debian and the essential developer ...
Ian Began in Debian development project in August 1993, and in the same year several preliminary versions of Debian was launched, and later it became runnable on every platform in this world, from embedded devices and even the International Space Station!

His focus was on the creation of a stable rock distribution based on of community culture software which are interrelated, ethically and technically, it's a distribution that believes in freedom of software.

Ian had a dream and lived it today, the Debian community remains incredibly active, with thousands of developers working hours and hours to bring the world a reliable and secure operating system.

And thereby lose the free software community and the open source high-profile symbol of symbols, which contributed to the existence of other distributions, which is why you are reading this post using Ubuntu or one of its derivatives ...

     

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MICRO FOCUS buy ATTACHMATE the owner of SUSE LINUX

Nearly two years ago, Attachmate Group announced the acquisition of Novell, sponsors SUSE Linux distro (latter supports the distribution openSUSE) compared to 2.2 billion dollars (and before that, bought Novell SUSE Linux in 2003, compared with 140 million dollars), everything went just fine and did not no change regarding SUSE and openSUSE, as you know, it's the Business.

Now and in the news again, Mirco Focus announced  for the acquisition of Attachmate Group for 2.3 billion dollars and therefore are acquired also projects Novell and SUSE Linux, the new company is a software company based in Britain - London, aims through the process to purchase these to provide products and related services for the Linux system and the field of hosting generally serve the objectives of the company.

Nils Brauckmann general manager of the SUSE Linux calls openSUSE Society , and said :

It is the Business as usual: no changes planned for the structural project SUSE or its administration, as there is no need to take any action by the community openSUSE as a result of this announcement, SUSE will continue to contribute to the open source community and will continue to list the projects in the field of business, and will remain supportive of the openSUSE project and society.

The situation will remain as it was with Suse and Opensuse .. the latest version of openSUSE (13.1) is very mature and you can download it from here.

     

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DEBIAN celebrates its twenty birthday

Debian celebrate its project over 21 years to its inception, making it one of the oldest open source projects in existence.

Debian is one of the most widely used Linux distributions around the world, and the most famous distributions based on them, and on top of Ubuntu, the Debian Linux distribution is more stable and stable at all so it described as "the rock."

We also know that Valve has created its own operating system for games SteamOS which is based on Debian, and this is evidence of the power of this distribution, which made ​​them the choice despite the presence of dozens of famous distributions.

Interestingly, the new policy is pursued by the developers of the project, as it will provide 6 years of support for Debian Wheezy, is likely to apply the policy on future versions as well.

Do you use Debian ?

     

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Top 10 Programming Code Editors for Linux

Programmers have common and known term called IDE ( Integrated Development Environment ), or the so-called script editor that helps you write the code, built, operated, organized and assist ; Here are the top 10 Programming Text Editor for Linux

1 . Komodo

Komodo is the Excellent IDE built on the Mozilla project the famous Komodo supports many programming languages ​​famous such as Perl, Python , PHP , C \ C + +, Ruby , JavaScript , TCL, CSS, HTML, XML, RHTM; Komodo has all features that you need and he has a very good interface and easy to use , but it is not free , but you can always get a free copy of the open source project through openkomodo.

2 . Eclipse

Eclipse is Celebrity editor for Java programmers with advanced features , also supports Python C \ C + +, it uses plugins, it is desirable for beginners , but it is an excellent option for advanced .

3 . CodeBlocks

Codeboks is a very good Editor, special for C \ C + + languages (you can use the Python by adding certain plugin) ; it includes everything you need for C and C + + , such as gtk and qt It supports more than an interpreter, it is the best option for C \ C + + programmers .

4 . NetBeans

Netbeans is a production of Sun, free and open source written using Java, It is known to be an excellent option for programmers of Java and graphical interfaces for Java , but also supports C \ C + +, Python , Ruby , Javascript , PHP , the only problem it is that it is not intended well .

5 . Geany

Geany editor is very lightweight and it supports C and Python and Perl and Pascal and Java ruby PHP and HTML , it's a small editor in size and very simple .

6 . Codelite

Codelite is a strong editor and open source dedicated to C \ C + + programmers, it resembles Codebloks in many ways, but with fewer features and supports syntax for other languages ​​.

7 . MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop editor is primarily designed for C # language and the NET languages ; Mono enables developers to quickly create software desktop and asp.net, Mono enables developers to easily port NET applications that you have created using Visual Studio to Linux and to maintain the abstract code.

8 . Anjuta

Anjuta editor is flexible software dedicated C \ C + + on GNU \ Linux , it is designed specifically for the GNOME \ GTK and includes a number of advanced programming facilities , it also has the glade / gnome GUI designer / code generator, it is dedicated to the Linux system .

9 . KDevelop

KDevelop fully supports the following languages ​​: C \ C + +, Ruby , PHP , and is often used on the front of KDE and QT environment and many of its users has turned to QTCreator without forgetting that there are a number of KDevelop lovers .

10 . Gedit

Gedit is not originally IDE but it is originally a text editor , but a few additions to it becomes able to be an IDE and supports many languages.

What is your comment about this list ? What is the best IDE for you ?

     

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Turin, Italian city will provide eight million dollars when moving to Linux

State behind the state .. and the city behind the city .. turn to the world of open source, last of these is the city of Turin of Italy, which announced its intention to convert to open-source, to Ubuntu distro precisely, which will gradually convert more than 8300 computer from the Windows system and software closed to Ubuntu and free software, it is expected that the process takes a year and a half to be completed.

If the city remained on Windows and Microsoft Office .. had to pay about $ 29.5 million over five years, but with the transition to free software, it will pay only 21.4 million dollars .. which means providing more than 8 million dollars and this at the level of only one city in 8300 a computer belonging to the local authorities, and that this amount will be reduced too at the end of training sessions for staff and workshops and transport operations for the first time, then will become employees are able on their own to manage devices and run and will not return there are high costs and there is no annual amounts to be paid as in the past.

It is expected that Turin will become the first Italian city fully transmitted to the Free Software and Linux system .. In the case of the experiment succeeds, it is expected to continue to shift to the movements of free software in several other cities in Italy.

     

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XBMC turns into KODI

Giant open-source Media Player and is one of the most popular application on Linux, Windows, Mac, or even phones and Tablets, it is wonderful program; Kodi (which was called XBMC previously), as it announced the development team that the name of the program has been changed and transformed into Kodi .

But what the reason for the name change ?

XBMC was designed originally for Xbox devices, and was named Xbox Media Center, and then in 2008 the name was changed to XBMC to avoid illegal problems, and despite the name change to XBMC, but it is still some people think that the program may be designed by Microsoft.

And now To avoid these problems, the program's name was changed to Kodi.

Kodi is available for download on most systems known, and you can download it from here.

     

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Russian Ministry of Health abandon Microsoft and Oracle products and turn to Linux and PostgreSQL

The Russian government has announced its intention to replace the Microsoft products and Oracle to Linux and open source, at least in the Ministry of Health.

Russia imposed on a large number of sanctions from the European Union and the United States, and this move is a response to those sanctions. One of those ways is to stop authorities from buying more licenses from Microsoft or stop prolonging the duration.

According to a report posted on the official website gov.cnews.ru of the Russian government, the Ministry of Health intends to relinquish all proprietary software provided by Microsoft and Oracle, to replace them with open source.

Roman Safronov, deputy director of the Department of Information Technology at the Ministry of Health Says that this has actually been planning since 2011 with the creation of the federal services for the unified health information system in the state (EGISZ).

Because many of the deals coming on EGISZ Ltd. and our budget, we decided that we can not afford to pay for a license tens of millions of rubles a year. 

A large part of EGISZ working on open source software, including servers which use unix / linux, and stations Linux terminal, and application software and databases;, as well as the operations center at the Ministry of Health based on open source software. 

The migration to open source after abandoning Microsoft and Oracle, is not something that can be done quickly, but progress in the deportation of those computers to software should wait until 2015.

As for the rest of the government and other ministries, it is unclear whether this step will be implemented in them, too.

* Note: PostgreSQL is a database management system.

     

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Toulouse provided million euro with LIBREOFFICE

Toulouse, the fourth largest city in France, which is located in the southwest of France, announced that it has provided about one million euros, following its transformation into a set of office programs free and open source LibreOffice.

Immigration to Liber Office was one of the key projects of the town in its new digital, and has begun the process of migration to it in 2012, and after that the decision was political in order to shift in 2011, and it took about a year and a half to complete, and from this day 90% of desktop computers (and used by more than 10 thousand people) is now working with LibreOffice.

The story began when Pierre Cohen was elected as mayor of Toulouse in 2008, a person who specializes in information technology and work on policy and digital special focus on open source, him and his colleague Erwane Monthubert are the reason behind the transition of the city of Toulouse to open source in 2011.

Not only Liber Office; but most official Websites of Toulouse are working with free software, such as: toulouse.fr and toulouse-metropole.fr and data.grandtoulouse.fr.

There is a clear trend in European cities to abandon the products owned and move to open source, in the vicinity of Spain Valencia and the Canary Islands abandoned MS Office and this led to save millions, along with many other European cities that we have mentioned in the past; will join the "Cote d'Azur" to the list transgender soon a region in France, in the state of Marseille, as the French capital, police developed its own operating system based on Ubuntu, and the list is endless, and we hope to turn more to the culture of open source and free software.

     

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Britain adopts ODF unifying format documents and abandon Microsoft formats

The British government announced the unification of file formats for documents in the public sector towards ODF, abandoning a Microsoft formats.

ODF (short for Open Document Format - open document format) will be this formula is the standard uniform and standard documents and government documents, as well as formulas PDF and HTML.

This decision comes after a long and controversial first started in 2011 and led to the occurrence of consultations have been concluded in February.

This step is inconsistent with the heavy pressure from Microsoft, as the Microsoft Insisted to Britain to use a format OpenXML (OOXML) as the format uniform - so the format used in Word documents Word documents - but critics responded, saying it not en Open source format.

This is because the British government delayed the adoption of ODF format is because of the constant pressure from Microsoft to Britain, as suggested by some sources.

The responses consultations about file formats tend overwhelmingly towards the open source format ODF as a standard.

The Executive Director Government Digital Service, Mike Bracken said :

I've made ​​reactions clearly how important it is to choose the right way, using open standard and this means that people will not pay Costs imposed on them for display or just dealing with information from the government, it's a big step forward, and I'm happy with it. 

The government mentioned the benefits of adopting this new approach :


- Citizens will not be back, companies and voluntary organizations need specialized software to open \ view or dealing with documents and government documents.

- People who work in the government will be able to participate in and deal with the documents in a unified coordination; This limits the problems of different formats.

- Non-governmental organizations will be able to choose the most ideal applications and cost-effective and convenience.

     

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After the transition to the open source .. Munich, has saved more than 10 million euros

Munich, has provided more than 10 million euros of the money, after the transition to Linux and open source software.

The first phase Munich Began the migration for Open Source in 2006 as some workstations and a small percentage of computers that uses Debian distribution with OpenOffice and Firefox and Thunderbird.

And then in 2008 it has switched from Debian distribution to Debian based on the Ubuntu called "LiMux", having been the realization that Ubuntu and its derivatives are the best platform to achieve the desired requirements.

LiMux 4 is the current version of the German distribution based on Kubuntu 10.04, and the next version LiMux 5, it will be based on Kubuntu 12.04, which will be adopted soon.

In 2013, it was announced the final stage of migration as a whole, a shift to fully open source, resulting in a saving of more than 10 million euros.

This figure includes both the cost of renting a staff of foreign companies to help manage and implement solutions, in addition to the internal costs of investment in training, management and support.

- The amount of money required for the transition to open source = 23 million euros.
- The amount of money required to upgrade \ buy licenses for Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office = 34 million euros.

As you can see, the amount of expenditure is still present in both, but remains less in open source, and gives the save and clear, and in the future will increase the amount of savings.

These figures also do not take into account the long-term savings, which ensures further savings soon.

The Munich city of at the top of the cities that pushed to use the open source, as the last year distributing CDS of Ubuntu 12.04 for free to Windows XP users.

     

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Top YouTube channels that discuss Linux

Recently, YouTube users has increased more than ever, the network containing the largest knowledge base of different media, and thus the large number of channels and passages, making it difficult for you to determine the appropriate channel that you want to participate from among the millions, this is also the case If you're a fan of Linux who want to subscribe to Linux channels to follow the news, discussions and information about Linux and open source.

1. The Linux Action Show

2. Sparty

3. InfinitelyGalactic

4. Jakejw93 

Do you follow one of these channels ? Do you know other helpful channels ? Tell us in a comment below.

     

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Knowledge and Linux .. one thing, in fact

If you're one of the lucky people who use Linux - without intolerance, of course - you might know that there is a hidden advantage of the features of your use of the system is far from the truth in the technical framework, namely, the love of knowledge.

In past time we used to download cracks and serials for Windows softwares that we use, we are used to download games and movies, but no more, no less, days and hours have been lost without doing anything useful in fact, whether for himself or for others.

Now with Linux the situation is completely different, there are a lot of things that you must explore to be able to use the system and therefore you will not stop using Google to find the answers that you want, we always hear this phrase "Google it" which is told by Linux Geeks, that proves that no one can feed you a knowledge from gold spoon, but you get it on your own, you Linux user not Princess Diana, you don't need someone to hold your hand in order to cut off a street with you.

This trip makes the individual thinking Out of the Box, as soon as the individual begins to search for information he will begin to learn something useful to him rather than to spend all his time in playing games for example, he will start to search for something like interfaces and server of display, programming and development and localization .. In the end, up to the stage of the search for knowledge everywhere, this changes the way of thinking of the individual Overall, his outlook on the way things are different, and the method of analysis of other things also vary even outside the sphere of technical, Linux is not just an operating system, It's also a Philosophy (Open source).

On the other hand this does not mean that everyone who use Windows and Mac are fools (of course not), but the proportion of those differ, of course, for example, every 100 Windows user are not fluent in using their computers and understand the difference between the server and the website, but Linux users : most of them are. This does not mean all of course, there are millions of professionals who use the closed-source applications or systems and there are many newbies who try out Linux just to enjoy the beauty and some effects (like Compiz), but the ratio varies as we said previously.

How about you ? Did your way of thinking has changed after you changed your system :)

     

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Stunt Rally : open source car racing game

Stunt Rally is a car racing game open source that works on both Windows and Linux, the game offers more than 153 stage race, and is still currently under continuous development in the 2.3 version.

You can learn more about the game from the following video :

To download Stunt Rally, Click here.

     

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Steve Ballmer tried to prevent Munich from moving to Linux

Munich, Germany city, it's not only one of the largest cities in Europe, but is also one of the first cities which had decided to abandon the Windows operating system, and the transfer of all the computers to the Linux system, in a large project with more than 15 thousand computers.

The plan of this migration, has begun since the last decade, and that the transition to a distribution called LiMux distribution official in the city of Munich; has served as evidence that open source products are able to replace the Microsoft products.

In spite of this, however, that this is faced considerable opposition, not only from internal officials, but also by organizations abroad, claiming that the move to open source may not be a successful investment.

Perhaps one of the biggest opponents, he was the "Steve Ballmer" (Executive Director of the above Microsoft Corporation), who is responsible for Microsoft's business in the city of Munich, when he decided to dispense with Windows.

An article which was published on opensource.com website, and citing information provided by the "Peter Hoffman," the head of the project LiMux, the Steve Ballmer himself decided to travel to Munich to discuss the mayor to convince him using Microsoft software instead of open source.

- Hoffman says:

Steve Ballmer has tried to convince the mayor that it would be a bad decision if you go to open source, it is difficult to manage and adopt it. 

But some members of the City Council gave him a strong response, saying :

How a person thinks, even if he is from a giant company, could have come here and simply, believing that he could change our decision?! 

What happened after that, was very funny, especially in the skills of Palmer in negotiation; Hoffman adds:

He was president of our municipality is prepared to hold a meeting with Steve Ballmer, and because English is not his native language, he asked the translator "What I'm saying if you do not have the right words to say to him?"; Replied the interpreter: "Be quiet, and after finishing his talk, little thought then say, "what can you offer us is not it?" and then during the meeting, the head of our municipality has nothing to say to Palmer, except to repeat the words, "what can you offer us is not it?" several times, and years later, Palmer has deeply impressed by the extent of the difficulties faced in the negotiations. "

In the end, Munich decided to turn to the Linux, and Microsoft has lost one of the most important battles in history; it is clear to us now evident that Munich is perfectly fine without Microsoft products.

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After the sale of WhatsAsp .. Telegram, the messaging application open source has a huge number of downloads

After Facebook company has bought WhatsAsp application with value of estimated $ 19 billion dollars , the users of WhatsAsp around the glob were concerned about the privacy policy may especially to its reputation in the field of privacy is bad and poked it, so the migration to other applications has taken place. The most prominent of these new applications," Telegram " open source application , which a lot of users have moved to it because of the strength of encrypted and similarity of the advantages of WhatsAsp and more ...

Up to this time , Telegram received more than 5 million new user and the migration still continue its process , it is the highest downloaded applications at all on the iPhone in 48 countries so far , after the company unveiled the evening of February 23 through twitter account official .
Telegram did not have this issue before, as we note in October 2013 that the number of active users does not exceed a hundred thousand per day, rose suddenly.

Telegram has not escaped from those cuts , Telegram stops due to the intense pressure on the server resulting from the increased number of users significantly , and the company said they are adding more servers and hire more workers to accommodate the largest number of users.

The company says : " We were expecting million as maximum , but it the registration started with 5 million users in a crazy and we were not ready adequacy ."

Telegram launched the iPhone in August 2013 and then on Android in October, the headquartered of the company is in Berlin , the application is developed by both the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Woodruff founder of Russian Social Network "VK".

" Telegram was built for all the people as an application messaging reliable , Telegram provids generous donations through a fund Digital Fortress Therefore , we have enough funds until the present time ; and invite users to donate if it is needed , or we'll add properties driven by new non- essential to the program ."

Telegram enjoys very high flexibility because it is open source , as developers can create new software based on Telegram which will perform the same function with the another new name.

Did you switch to the Telegram ? What do you think about it ?

     

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Clean your system from temporary files with Bleachbit

Clean all cache files from whether Linux or Windows by Bleachbit.

It is a tool for removing junk files, cache files, unwanted packages, etc ...

The open source Bleachbit contains an advanced features such as shredding files, in order to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of removed files by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

To install it in Ubuntu/Linux Mint :

sudo apt-get install bleachbit

In Arch Linux :

sudo pacman -S bleachbit

     

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ReactOS Project. The Windows open source

ReactOS aims to create an open and free replacement for the Windows NT family of Microsoft operating systems, without breaking compatibility with applications and drivers code. The NT architecture has always had great flexibility and dominance in the ICT industry , with its latest incarnation being Windows 8.

The project aims to enhance the strengths of the NT family and at the same time avoiding their vulnerabilities of old versions , maintaining a light environment in which computer resources are directed to what really matters , programs .

ReactOS 0.3.16 is still under constant development ( alpha phase ) so it is not ready for everyday use.

You can help the ReactOS project making it known through word of mouth, monetarily contributing to the ReactOS Foundation or devoting your time in the project ( submitting a patch , helping with translation , writing in community forums , and so on) .

Official web site : http://reactos.org

     

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PyCharm : New open-source Editor application for Python

PyCharm Editor software is a new IDE from JetBrains , open-source , built specifically for Python programmers language.

It has a lot of wonderful features that improve productivity so much, watch the video above.

PyCharm is available in two versions : the first free open source ( a community ) , and the second is the professional which comes with some additional features for developers Web and supports : (Google App Engine, Flask, Django, web2py, CoffeeScript and other templating languages, Remote development, SQL and more)

For installation on Ubuntu ; download this package, and then unzip ( extract ) and then run the file pycharm.sh.

Note : that you 'll need to install the Java Oracle JRE (1.6 +).

Run the following commands , so the program will work.

sudo apt-get purge openjdk * && sudo add-apt-repository ppa: webupd8team/java && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

     

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Britain is planning to leave MS Office and move to open source

British ministries are looking to provide tens of millions of money annually through the abandonment of expensive software produced by Microsoft Corporation .

Britain says it can reduce a large proportion of expenditure during the transition to open source software , or software that can produce files open source (open document format - ODF) , such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice and Goolgle Docs.

It is set formats ( formats ) documents so that they are unified and standardized across Britain to help break what it calls the " oligopoly " and improve communication between the civil servants .

" We want to see a greater range of software used , up to enable civil servants to access the information they need and that they can get their work done without having to buy software licenses . "

This will help government departments to share documents and documents with each other simply .

Still many countries around the world turn to open source and proprietary software denouncing .

What do you think?

     

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