Carlo Daffara (http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/) the author of FLOSSMETRICS/OpenTTT which was adopted by the International Open Source Network (IOSN) ASEAN+3 and InWEnt Capacity Building International of Germany in their fosstoolkit project (includes a section on FOSS in healthcare) has come up with a Linux desktop named EveryDesk!
Read the rest of the article at: http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=435
Read also Some EveryDesk Use Cases which includes a use case for healthcare among others.
Said to boot fast in just a few seconds and lightweight (about 500+ mb).
From: Linux Magazine http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Peppermint-Linux-OS-1.0-Released
May 11, 2010
The cloud-friendly, web app-centric Linux distro is now available.
Another day, another Linux distro. Peppermint OS 1.0 uses Mozilla Labs’ Prism technology to fully integrate with Cloud and web-based applications such as Hulu and Gmail. The OS is built on Linux Kernel 2.6.32, Xorg 7.5 GUI and Openbox 3.4.10 for window management.
Peppermint 1.0 uses Mozilla Labs’ Prism to create Web apps that run as single site browser windows (SSBs).Custom front end code integrates the SSBs into the desktop environment.
From: http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-edition
Help spread the news! Ubuntu 10.04 Code Named: Lucid Lynx will be officially released April 29, 2010.
This is the latest news from: http://www.ubuntu.com/:
Long-term support (LTS) version of popular desktop operating system generally available on 29 April
LONDON, April 27, 2010: Canonical announced today the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution, which includes three years of support through free security and maintenance updates. It will be available for free download on Thursday 29 April and will be pre-installed on a range of machines from a number of manufacturers in Summer 2010.
The desktop edition of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will feature extensive design work, faster boot speed, social network integration, online services and the Ubuntu One Music Store.
“Ubuntu 10.04 LTS challenges the perceptions of the Linux desktop, bringing a whole new category of users to the world of Ubuntu,” said Jane Silber, CEO, Canonical. “Changes like the new look and feel and the addition of a music store, layered on top of our relentless focus on delivering an intuitive and attractive user experience for new and existing Ubuntu users — these are the bridging elements to the mainstream market that our community, our partners and our users really want. Long-term support makes Ubuntu 10.04 LTS very attractive to corporate IT as well.”
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Android now running on iPhone. This is good news! I don’t have an iPhone and doesn’t plan on having one precisely because I prefer free-and-open-source-software-based phones. But now this may change 
.
Here’s the link to Programmer David Wong’s “Linux on the iPhone” blog showing a screenshot of the Android boot and some background on his project.
David Wong also posted on his blog: Android running on iPhone links to pre-built images and sources for those wanting to try running Android on the iPhone and the following youtube video:
Hope a lot like me will be interested in this and will benefit from this sharing.
From: Open Source Observatory & Repository Europe
[http://www.osor.eu]
http://www.osor.eu/news/it-children-hospitals-saving-money-by-using-open-source
by Gijs Hillenius — published on Apr 21, 2010
— filed under: [T] Deployments and Migrations, [GL] Italy
Italian children hospitals are saving money by using the ‘Smart Inclusion project’ using open source technology and offering access to for instance medical data and e-learning applications. According to a statement from the Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, hospitals can save about 1000 Euro per PC and about 500 per thin client.
The project uses the Linux open source operating system.
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From the email release
of lpi-discuss@lpi.org
LPI and IOSN Introduce New Exam Proctor Program
(Sacramento, CA, USA: April 22, 2010) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced a program of exam proctor training and exam labs undertaken with the cooperation of the International Open Source Network (IOSN: http://www.apdip.net/projects/2003/iosn). LPI’s affiliate in Korea, LPI-Korea (http://lpi-korea.org/), undertook training of 19 new proctors from the nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to be followed by local exam labs throughout the next year–commencing on May 1 and 22, 2010 with scheduled exam labs in the Philippines. The IOSN was formed in 2003 as a network of Asian Pacific centers of excellence and is a long time collaborator with LPI. The IOSN is based at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Center in Bangkok, Thailand and this recent initiative with LPI was supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC: http:www.idrc.ca) and the Aga Khan University (http://www.aku.edu).
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One of the best proof to the growing acceptance and superiority of the Free and Open Source Software model is NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) use of “Open Source software release” under the NASA Open Source Agreement or “NOSA”.
NASA believes that by releasing their software codes as “Open Source” it will increase software quality, accelerate development, maximize awareness, increase dissemination in support of its education mission.
From NASA’s Open Source Website: http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/
The motivations for NASA to distribute software codes Open Source are:
* To increase NASA software quality via community peer review
* To accelerate software development via community contributions
* To maximize the awareness and impact of NASA research
* To increase dissemination of NASA software in support of NASA’s education mission
Current Open Source Projects
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Some people have been asking me if the posting I did in the past entilted: Setting-up IBM Thinkpad X40 Laptop on Ubuntu Linux to connect to the Internet via 3G/GPRS using Nokia N70 works with newer versions of Linux on other laptops / notebook computers and connected to other mobile phone brands / models.
Yes, it still works with the latest versions of Linux and other laptop computers using different mobile phones. Just to share them to those interested, I will make a listing on what devices it worked and will update this posting once I discover new ones:
Laptop / Notebook Computers:
Mobile Phones:
I tried all of them both on Globe, Smart and when I was in Laos, the local network named Tigo. Nowadays I usually use Ubuntu but I’m sure it will work in other Linux distros as well. Aside from the set up I used in the posting: Setting-up IBM Thinkpad X40 Laptop on Ubuntu Linux to connect to the Internet via 3G/GPRS using Nokia N70, I also tried them using GPRSEC (a graphic user interface dialler) and wvdial (command line dialler). I will write on how to do them on gprsec and wvdial next time. GTG. Cheers!
The top 10 Windows Malware listed by Microsoft based on their MSRT, or Malicious Software Removal Tool covers only 1,776,569 machines according to an article: Microsoft Lists Top 10 Windows Malware in Security Watch. The article further states that “The downside to it is that it searches for and removes a list of malware that is small compared to that of a real anti-malware product.”
The country data (also covering only top 10 countries) of 4,057,285 machines makes it clear that there are a lot of machines not counted in the top 10 list. And since this covers only top 10 countries and only those cleaned by MSRT excluding those undetected and unremovable, makes us think that there are a lot more Microsoft Windows machines around the world that are infected. This shows that Microsoft has lot bigger problem when it comes to malware. And yes, we’re better off with Free and Open Source Software especially Linux OS.
More of the article and data including list of top 10 Microsoft Windows Malware and top 10 Countries can be seen here: Microsoft Lists Top 10 Windows Malware in Security Watch
With Google’s Linux-based Android powering the HTC Magic (Now in the Philippines through Smart Communications. I also heard Globe is offering HTC Magic and its available in Globe’s outlet in SM Mega Mall — this has to be verified since HTC Magic is not included in the Globe’s website’s list of phone offerings as of today), Nokia is following suit in the use of Linux for its new phone.
The use of Linux will be in parallel with Symbian in Nokia’s high-end product range. Symbian also an open source software and the main platform in Nokia’s phones “controls half of the smartphone market volume — more than its rivals Apple, Research in Motion and Google put together,” according to the article: Nokia Unveils First Linux Phone in Channel Insider.
Although the celphone giant has kept a stable total market share, it is losing “share among more expensive models to the likes of Apple” and this “high-end products are important for Nokia because the company has not only lost market share there but its average selling prices have declined faster than the industry average.”
And “analysts see Linux as a key for Nokia to gain back ground in the coming years” since the focus of business now have shifted from just selling phones to providing “services and software following Apple and Google’s entrances to the market in the last two years.”
Reference: Nokia Unveils First Linux Phone in Channel Insider
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