Sunday, June 29, 2014

Steve Ballmer tried to prevent Munich from moving to Linux

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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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Monday, June 23, 2014

The release of The Orange Box device system with Ubuntu

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The canonical company in collaboration with the TranquilPC company have produced the first computer cluster running on Ubuntu by default, it has been named The Orange Box.
Before we speak about hardware features, we must first know the meaning of the word computer cluster :The sentence computer cluster used to describe two computers or more that are connect together often part of a network of LAN so that work in parallel to process data, where the data is divided into small parts which every computer from the cluster process its data and have been sent to the central server which receives and collect all Data coming from every computer in the cluster. To learn more, Visit the wiki.

The Orange Box

The Orange Box

The Orange Box


     
This device provides a great platform and where in just a few minutes you will see the power in hardware provisioning and synchronization service with all of Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape, Openstack, Hadoop, CloudFoundry and many other technologies so that it can be a server for Steam. You can think of some other ways for this device or HDK (Hardware Development Kit) Set up as an example of the orange box using MAAS and Juju and receives a cloud service built.

Features :


The Orange Box

The Orange Box




Hardware features of this device :

10 motherboard of type Intel NUC.
10 processors core i5-3427 2.8 GHz frequencyRandom memory (RAM) and a capacity of 160 Gb DDR3 type.
10 graphics cards, Intel HD Graphics 4000.
10 hard disks with a capacity of 120 Gb and type of SSD becomes totaling 1.2Tb.
D-Link DGS-1100-16 with 802.1q VLAN support.
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter.
Intel Gigabin Ethernet slot.
USB ports and HDMI in the back of the device.

Buy the device :


You have the device through the network. The price of the machine is £ 7,575 and the price change by the change of hardware options desired. To request the device and obtain more information, please visit the following page .
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Linux distributions with Lxde Desktop environment

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linux distributions with Lxde Desktop environment

LXDE is a free desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX platforms, such as Linux or BSD . The name stands for " Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment ".LXDE X11 Desktop Environment uses Openbox as default manager and it aims to provide a lightweight and fast desktop based on independent components that can be used in other environments.
! Well, in my case, I have to say that for me is the best desktop environment other than openbox , of course , if they like what it light : b .

Most popular linux distributions that comes with LXDE by default :

Of course they are a lot, but we chosen the most popular ones.
Let's begin ~

1: Lubuntu

 

based on debian / ubuntu, the best distro for me until I get to the 13.10 version u_u ... but I'm not one to say that , Lubuntu is an Ubuntu variant fast distribution , lightweight and energy saving using desktop LXDE (Lightweight X11 desktop Environment). Is thought to have undemanding system requirements and is designed primarily for netbooks , mobile devices and older PCs . in my case I recommend it 100 % for netbooks.


Link : http://lubuntu.net/


Lubuntu

 

2: LXLE


debian / lubuntu Based distro , recommended for desktop , lightweight and easy to use based on presenting Lubuntu LXDE desktop environment . Compared to its source distribution , LXLE has a number of unique features : It is built from the editions of Ubuntu LTS ( versions of long term support ) , covers the daily needs of most users by providing a good selection of default applications and useful adds modifications and adjustments to improve performance and functions . I recommend it for family computer because it has a lot of programs.


Link : http://lxle.net/

LXLE


3: Peppermint OS


debian / lubuntu Based distro, aims to be super quick and undemanding to system resources . Using Mozilla 's Prism technology Peppermint integrates seamlessly with web -based applications or in the cloud. Other features of the distribution include automatic updates, easy step by step installation , a neat and friendly user interface , and increased mobility by integrating directly with Cloud-based applications. For me It's the best stable lxde distro :) recommended .

Link : http://peppermintos.com/


Peppermint OS


4: KNOPPIX

 

Debian based distro is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU / Linux software, automatic hardware detection , and support for many graphics cards , sound , SCSO and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix can be used as a Linux shows , educational CD, rescue system , or be adapted and used as a platform for demonstration of commercial software products . No need to install anything on a hard disk. Because the fly decompression , the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it. : D ,besides being super fast , and work on ANY pc: D.




Link : http://www.knoppix.org/



KNOPPIX


5 : WattOS


Linux distro based on debian, and soon it will move to debian / ubuntu, the racial struggle to be as efficient in energy use as possible so that it can be used in low capacity computers recycled . What I liked was his key role , " energy " as is consuming minimum amount of energy , it is perfect for old computers and all any laptop, so I like this distro , battery spends the uffffffffffff lentox : 9.


Link : http://www.planetwatt.com/


WattOS


     
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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 AIO

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Ubuntu 14.04 AIO

During the month of April, the canonical company released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and shortly also released Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, Lubuntu 14.04 LTS, Kubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS as a result of the multiplicity of tastes about interfaces and default applications and other matters relative to the appropriate Liberals Penguins, for Linux freaks (like me) who prefer to collect different versions or for who have weak internet connection. We must download 5 separated Linux distributions and burnt them separately on CD or USB Flash, and It's hard somehow.

Ubuntu AIO DVD Has All Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Flavors on One Disk


Ubuntu 14.04 DVD AIO AIO symbolize to All In One and it contains Ubuntu and all its flavours collected into one iso with size of 4.40 GB of course.

ubuntu AIO


This Disc is grouped by "Milan Rajčić" in an attempt to make it easier for users such as me.

We turn now to the download links :

Standard Version (14:04): characterized by the fact that the distribution Ubuntu and Kubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME come only with 64 bytes, and Xubuntu and Lubuntu come only with 32 bytes.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AIO

Copy i386 14.04: all distributions come with 32 bytes.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AIO i386

Copy (12:04): characterized by the presence of Ubuntu 64 and 32 bytes, and the rest of the flavours come with 32 bytes except Kubuntu that come with 64 bytes. For Ubuntu GNOME is not existed.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AIO 

     
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