Showing posts with label linux news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linux news. Show all posts

Friday, January 1, 2016

Debian developer passed away

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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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Friday, September 4, 2015

Unity, Game engine has arrived to Linux

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Unity_On_Linux

It seems that the good news coming in on the penguin Linux day after day, of this news is the arrival of the game engine Unity to support the Linux operating system with the release of the beta version these days, which means that game developers now can create games using Linux, which previously was the Unity engine is limited on Windows and Mac only system.

If you do not know Unity is the development of many of the most popular games that could be played by one day platform.

This announcement may not be entirely surprising. In the month of January this year Unity announced its intention to provide version that runs on Linux, and this version remains just a trial version and there is no any guarantees on the continued support in the future unless there is an acceptable number of game developers on the Linux platform.

This version is based on a copy of 5.1.0f3, and provides the ability to export to :

- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- Web operator
- WebGL applications
- Android
- SamsungTV

System Requirements :


Unity is only available for 64bit architecture, it requires Ubuntu 12.4 or later, may be other Linux distributions with 64bit are capable of running Unity editor but officially supports Ubuntu.

To download the Unity Editor in deb format for Ubuntu in particular, and Debian-based distributions generally : through the following link.

To download the Unity Editor for other distributions in Shell Script through the following link.

     
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Friday, November 7, 2014

Release of openSUSE 13.2

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Release of openSUSE 13.2

The community of OpenSUSE distro announced the release of the final version, 13.2 after months of constant development, the new version comes with several updates, such as the Linux kernel 3.16 and GNOME Desktop 3.14, KDE 4.11 and 4.14,XFCE and the latest stable version of LXDE desktop environment.

Btrfs Filesystem has become is the default filesystem in openSUSE 13.2 for the root (/) while XFS is the default filesystem the Home folder (/ home), which is considered a significant change to the level of performance and speed, in fact, also been several improvements made to the package management application of openSUSE so-called "Yast2" such as removing support for GRUB Legacy and focus on supporting the GRUB 2 just as well to restructure Sticky distribution and make it more automatic in the performance of tasks, as well as to improve the formal aesthetic of the overall distribution and update all packets to the latest versions.

Speaking of KDE, Kda plasma 5 became available in the official repositories for anyone who wants to try it, and KDE 3.5 for those who wants to stay on it, GNOME Shell 3.14 is pre-existing and its applications, interface MATE 1.8 is also available official repository, also have been added several scientific applications to their own official repository such as Pythia and Yoda and Cadabra, in addition to many other features.

To download the version of openSUSE 13.2, click here.

     
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

The release of the final version of Ubuntu 14.10

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The release of the final version of Ubuntu 14.10

After months of continuous development, Ubuntu developers announced release of Ubuntu final release 14.10 of which, the new version did not come with any new features to remember it is just a version carries Last updated packages and bug fixes as well as to provide some additional packages to be installed through the official repositories, is not worth the upgrade to in fact especially as it is not LTS.

The new version came with Linux Kernel 3.16, Firefox and Thunderbird 33, LibreOffice 4.4.3.2, interface Unity 7.3, and the interface MATE becomes available for installation from the official repository and so on for the interface Unity 8, It has also updated the appearance a little bit by a new set of backgrounds for Ubuntu 14.10.

To download the Ubuntu 14.10 Click here.

     
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Monday, October 27, 2014

openSUSE integrated two projects (Tumbleweed and Factory) in one

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openSUSE integrated two projects (Tumbleweed and Factory) in one

openSUSE has always been of the distributions that Appeal to me, not for anything, but because they are adaptable and really has a lot of beautiful sub-projects for all categories of users, and one of these projects is the Tumbleweed project. 

Tumbleweed is a special repository for openSUSE that contains the latest available versions of the various packages, designed to the latest software and tools to provide users of this distribution, which is a very popular repository due to the number of packets in which it resides, once added to the distro openSUSE, the distribution is considered a Rolling Release like Arch Linux, now there is another named "Factory" project, a project of the Factory consists of two things: the official developmental versions of distro openSUSE (mean files iso for the project), in addition to the repository, the Factory, which is the other contains the latest developmental versions available from the packages, which also once added to your system, it turns into a rolling distro like Arch Linux (because you will have updates every day). 

The good news today for users of openSUSE is that both projects, Tumbleweed and Factory will merge under the name of Tumbleweed ! This means the unification of efforts in order to create a single repository contains the latest packages, programs and tools to be a good choice for anyone who wants openSUSE distro and be rolling at the same time, will also be the launch name "Tumbleweed Release" on the developmental versions name of the distro openSUSE, starting from 4 November 2014 the Factory repository will be re-directed automatically to the Tumbleweed repositories to be the merger process. 


Incidentally, the version of openSUSE 13.2 will be launched after 8 days, to follow the news here's the official website of the distribution : https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2



     
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Netflix on Linux

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Netflix on Linux

Netflix now works on Linux with no Wine tricks required. All it takes to start watching Netflix on Linux right now is Google Chrome and a quick user agent tweak, and soon won’t be necessary.

But for now we have to do some tweaks to make it works.

What we need to play Netflix on Linux

- Having the last Google chrome

- NSS 3.16.2 or greater

- Hacking The user Agent by installing and using this extension : "User-Agent Switcher" and pasting these text lines as you see in the image bellow :

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36

netflix on linux - user agent

Soon It will not require any tweaking and we will get rid of this extension, so we can watch Netflix without any complications.


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Saturday, October 4, 2014

MICRO FOCUS buy ATTACHMATE the owner of SUSE LINUX

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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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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

DEBIAN celebrates its twenty birthday

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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.

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Sunday, August 10, 2014

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

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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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Valencia Schools provide 50 million dollars due to LINUX

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Valencia Schools provide 50 million dollars due to LINUX

Valencia is located east of Spain and the largest city in the country, announced that its schools have been transformed into Linux, specifically to the Lliurex distribution created by Spain for those schools, which is based on the Edubuntu educational distribution, and Lliurex is used in more than 110 thousand computer teachers.

The process of transmission of Valencia Schools for Linux to save about 36 million euros (equivalent to approximately $ 50 million) over the past nine years.

Lliurex distribution is managed by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration; during the installation process, users can choose between several options differ in their suitability for use, there is an option for use in schools or homes, and another for small and medium-sized businesses. The Lliurex and one of the many free software projects in the autonomous region of Valencia, Spain.

Instead, there are about more than 120 thousand desktop computers in Valencia which uses LibreOffice including schools, courts, and have the government said last year that the use of LibreOffice will help provide 1.5 million euros a year (the equivalent of nearly two million dollars) .

Not only this, there is also another area in western Spain called "Extremadura", which also uses her own Linux distribution called linex installed on more than 70 thousand computer teachers in the region.

     
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Ubuntu expands in India

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Ubuntu expands in India

India is the fastest growing market for open-source operating system Ubuntu, thanks to links \ alliances with leading vendors of computers, and the increasing reliance on cloud applications and web solutions in the country where institutions see the  that Ubuntu is very good at such things and things.

Linux has grown by 50% from last year in India, and perhaps this is thanks to a partnership with Canonical my company Dell and HP, to attach to the system operated with certain models of those Laptops displayed in India.

India is the fastest growing market for us for adoption on Ubuntu, it's definitely one of our main markets globally. - Prakash Advani: Regional Director for Canonical in Asia and the Pacific. 

As many companies have moved to cloud storage, and this means that Ubuntu has become more important for them, and also said: that people are switching to Ubuntu because it is simpler to understand and easy to install and use. - Sanchit Vir Gogia. 

We chose Ubuntu because it is stable, and does not require the struggles of viruses Unlike Windows, it is very safe and cost-effective. - Mahesh Pawar. 

To ensure that it comfortable for users, JustDial company began conducting training in the field of basic awareness about Ubuntu.

If some users insisted on the use of the Windows system, we will educate these people how they can use the Ubuntu system more efficient. - Pawar. 
We seek to make important applications running on open source operating systems. - Srikanth Raman: Director of Information Technology at Narayana Hrudayalaya. 
In last two years, Ubuntu was able to penetrate the government and education sectors with some great bargains, such as the deal of 15-lakh where bought Delhi University 61 A computer installed upon Ubuntu also bought the province of Assam Omitron 28 thousand computers; as the company JustDial transferred substantially all its computers amounting 4500 computer to Ubuntu, for their use of the CRM system that works from the browser.

Ubuntu has also seen a growth in the consumer sector of users who opt for cheap versions of laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu, and there are about 850 stores in the country sells Laptops HP and Dell pre-installed with Ubuntu system.

     
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Saturday, August 9, 2014

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

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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.

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Toulouse provided million euro with LIBREOFFICE

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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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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Russia : 110 thousand dollars to those who penetrate the TOR network

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Russia : 110 thousand dollars to those who penetrate the TOR network

The Russian Interior Ministry substantial offers financial reward, 110 thousand dollars to anyone who could penetrate the network or the program known as the famous Tor to encrypt and hide your identity on the Internet; so as to eliminate the identities of network users of Tor.

Saying that the goal of this command is : "to ensure the country's security and defense."

The contest is open only to the Russians, and applicants need to pay about 5480 dollars to provide for the contest, which is open until 20 August

Earlier this month, the Council of the Russian parliament, the law firms are obliged to contact store personal data of users Russians in the country.

According to the Guardian, the more Russia is the fifth country in terms of the use of the Tor, with the presence of more than 210 thousand people actually benefit from the service, they are anyway growing steadily.

Tor is developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy, then became widespread globally purpose of concealing identity, and relies on a network of thousands of volunteers around the world who are turning to their computers relays to pass confidential data encrypted through.

And is being used by journalists and the enforcement officers is legal or positive things, but it can also be used for the purposes of illegal and unethical and negative exist in the "deep web \ dark  network", and that there is no room for expansion where in this article, but you can read about here.

To follow up, the Ministry of Defence in 2013 and it is still one of the biggest supporters of the development kit Tor, those developers who are considered independent research center is a nonprofit, and who keep the tools used to allow all access to the Tor.

In addition, it is mentioned that the leaked documents by the "Edward Snowden" published, explained that the NSA "National Security Agency" unable to break through the Tor network or spy on the users of the network.

     
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The release of version 2.2 of the application Minitube

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The release of version 2.2 of the application Minitube

MiniTube launches its update - an application to watch Youtube clips without the need for a web browser or Flash Player - version number 2.2, brings some set of fixes to the problems operating in some videos, and minor improvements.

In this version it is possible to opt out of a particular channel "unsubscribe" by the right mouse button in the subscription and then set the desired choice; and the possibility of the appointment of videos that he has seen 'as watched'.

The other thing is the terminal command to end the operation, with procedures identical code for Unity and GNOME 3 lists each application.

The developer of the application "Flavio Tordini" says that MiniTube will soon be upgraded to QT5.

minitube play stop action 2


# To download MiniTube on Ubuntu, choose what suits you best :

MiniTube 64-bit 
MiniTube 32-bit

     
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The release of Ubuntu 14.04.1

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The release of Ubuntu 14.04.1

Canonical released the first update package "1" to a Ubuntu 14.04 available for download, and if you are using Ubuntu 14.04 you can update your system as soon as access to the new version 14.04.1.

Ubuntu 14.04.1 comes up with fixes for problems, packages, and security updates to the system since its launch in April, and moreover, support has been improved hardware support, and increase stability,. 

You can see the rest of the changes of 14.04.1 on the Ubuntu wiki.

You can download Ubuntu 14.04.1 from here.


     
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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

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After the transformation of 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 kde desktop

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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Monday, July 28, 2014

Interested in topics such as Tor, Tails or Linux Journal? NSA consider you as extremist

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interested in topics such as Tor, Tails or Linux Journal? NSA consider you as extremist

In a new report revealed by "XKeyscore snooping program" on leaked confidential documents concerning the activities of the National Security Agency, the U.S. NSA, says that the agency was using a secret program to classify all of the cares matters such as project Tor or Tails distribution and all who read the magazine Linux Journal is placed under a certain type of observation, but even that the agency was interested in pursuing both protection and privacy matters in general and especially those who cares about Linux and open source.

XKeyscore is a collection of software to collect and analyze the data used by the NSA has been detected for some of them by Edward Snowden, what has happened recently is that it has been detected on the source code for one of these programs (in fact is the rule file) used by the NSA in tracking operations , and discovered the above information according to which track all of the cares of security and privacy on the Web in general and some Ips specific pertaining to network Tor, according to a report carried out by the security experts Germans about the file leaked the tracking process does not belong to people reel off or goals for NSA, but anyone looking for a issues related to these areas.

Some searches that are tracked are any searches containing words such as 'linux', 'USB', 'CD', 'secure desktop', 'IRC', 'truecrypt' or 'tor', there are also websites are tracked all visitors such as Linux Journal, or those who are looking for services such as stealth and HotSpotShiled MegaProxy and FreeNet and many other websites, so that in fact are classified distribution Tails specializes in protection as "software developed by radical extremists across the Community."

Some countries, such as Canada, Britain, AustraliaNew Zealand and the United States are beyond the scope of tracing operations carried out by the NSA, the other countries around the world appears to be "despised by" seeking NSA hard to keep track of looking for such a things outside of these five countries known as the "Five Eyes".

Matters raised about tracking NSA is not new, but is the new track them down for this particular group of users and track them to the readers of Linux Journal and other websites .. Maybe they finally understood that open source has reached a stage make users security really is not able to track them through and this perhaps trying to track them down when they try to download these software from the beginning by the search and other websites .. can you reply on this news ?

     
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

China has banned MS OFFICE in government facilities

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China has banned MS OFFICE in government facilities

Republic of China has banned the use of Microsoft Office software in parts of the central government and some sections of the secondary, for the benefit of the national program.

China believes that this procedure is a significant step in terms of information security, in the wake of the ban on the installation of Windows 8 in government institutions.

The government did not give any explanation tray and details about this work in particular.

It is noteworthy that China is the most country in the world that uses Windows XP and Microsoft products, making Microsoft lose a lot of market share.

     
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Elementary OS change the name of the next version of Isis to Freya

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Elementary OS change the name of the next version of Isis to Freya

Developers of elementary OS distro Announced changing the name of the next version from Isis to Freya, the reason why the developers did this change is to not be similar to the name of the "Islamic state in Syria and Iraq" (Daash), which is summed up in English as well as Isis into thinking people that there is a relationship between the two.
Elementary clearly unrelated to the group of armed known as Isis, we do not believe that people are confused because of similarity of names, but we wanted to clarify this ambiguity occurring for not getting confusion to people in the coming days, Freya beautiful name expresses the love, therefore we have chosen .. says Developers on Google Plus.
This precedent of its kind in the fact that the Linux distribution changed its name to not only similar to the armed organization in the Middle East, politics has became perhaps the intervention in every area, even in the field of free software.

     
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