Linux Education in America: Inspiration from Russia?

The reason that the Russian announcement is funny boils down to the perception over the years that Russia equates to totalitarianism, whilst here in America we’re all about Freedom and innovation. Yet our educational system — the very underpinnings of how we’re growing out future technological talent, is based upon the inversion of what one…

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Linux File System Layout [PIC]

the complete Linux File System Layout represented in an image, quite helpful to remember files locations

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Why Public Schools shoud use Linux

1. Its free (schools could save thousands)

2. It runs on an 8 year old PC (which most schools still use!)

3. Openoffice can open all type of documents

4. Easy, customizable interface

5. Security features that make you wonder why you even used windows

6. It can run windows applications too, and not many games (a big plus for some schools)

7. Small learning curve for students

8. Firefox

9. Supporting the Open-Source Community

I seriously don’t understand why schools don’t do this. If your school needs a PC lab, buy a whole bunch of Pentium 3 computers (or even Pentium 2) and run Ubuntu. It comes with almost everything a school computer needs. Kids in public school won’t know how to modify the system in any way and its completely safe to use.

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PC Linux OS gaining fast on Ubuntu for driver recognition

It looks like PcLinux OS is finally getting some deserved recognition, even from driver writers.

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HP to expand Linux PC offerings to other countries; US a “real possibility”

HP isn’t going to sit by and watch Dell ride the Linux train into Buzzville. The company is expanding its multi-nation pilot program, which is centered on customized Red Hat Linux implementations for desktop environments.

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What every programmer should know about memory

Unlike storage subsystems, removing the main memory as a bottleneck has proven much more difficult and almost all solutions require changes to the hardware.

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Wine-doors 0.1.1 released

Wine-doors 0.1.1 has been released with some minor changes;

Fixed bugs with file not found handling for applications such as dreamweaver
Added multiple URLs in a pack
Tweaked cairo renderer slightly
Added network detection via NetworkManager
Added proxy support to downloader
Lots of minor odds and sods

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The Most Powerful Linux Command that nobody uses!!

lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that’s just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application. The tool is aptly called lsof because it “lists open files”. And remember, in Unix just about everything (including a network socket) is a file.

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Fedora’s new theme – Nodoka

Since the first Fedora releases, Clearlooks has been the default theme; in fact, Clearlooks has been the default theme in a number of distros for a long time now. Aiming to give Fedora its own distinct appearance is Nodoka: based on its own theme engine it’s extremely fast, and when seen in combination with the rest of the artwork F8 is beautiful.

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Russia installing Linux in all schools.

Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication stated at a press conference. Experts and market participants consider the terms within which software is to be developed quite reasonable. According to Mr. Reiman, that might significantly reduce Russian dependence on foreign software.

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