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Scott Beamer

Linux Today - Editor's Note: Ubuntu Is Not Our Savior - 0 views

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shared by Scott Beamer on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • And no matter how superior Ubuntu becomes, Gentoo, Slackware, Red Hat, Fedora, and Debian are more important because they are the primal Linuxes. Everything else flows from them. They are the progenitors, and are essential. Let's also remember non-Linux FOSS operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. From these also come herds of wonderful things such as routers, firewalls, drivers, network stacks, and stout high-demand servers. (Take a look at the top servers on Netcraft.)
  • Scott Beamer on 16 Jun 09
     
    There is more to Linux then the almighty Ubuntu
Marc Lijour

Open Source has no bearing upon Software Security - Community does - Unscrewing Security - 1 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • There's no reason to believe that Apple's iPhone iOS is better or worse than Android from a security perspective - at least from the perspective of openness. There may be more fundamental architectural issues to distinguish the platforms but (again) they both have Unix-like heritage, so they both start from a good place.
  • Security quality is disjoint from openness. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is clearly and famously not less secure than closed / proprietary software - but neither is FOSS necessarily more secure than proprietary.
  • Marc Lijour on 24 Jan 11
     
    There's no reason to believe that Apple's iPhone iOS is better or worse than Android from a security perspective - at least from the perspective of openness. There may be more fundamental architectural issues to distinguish the platforms but (again) they both have Unix-like heritage, so they both start from a good place.
Marc Lijour

The official web site of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala - 0 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The Director of IT@School, K. Anvar Sadath said, "Building collaboration and sharing practices are essential factors for the well being of societies and proprietary software often deny that."
  • The Kerala IT Education Department believes that sharing is an important virtue. However, sharing a proprietary software would be a violation of the End User License Agreement (EULA).
  • Thinking about the massive cost involved in setting up the IT infrastructure based on Windows, it was better to have the OS and applications realigned for Linux and other free software.
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  • Enabling Linux and FOSS based education in 2,738 high schools brought along its own set of challenges. In the first phase, over 40,000 teachers had to be trained for over 90 hours on Linux based systems.
  • Creating a single curriculum based on GNU/Linux was another issue to counter because there were many distributions of the OS
  • the Free Software Foundation of India suggested developing a custom distribution for IT@School and eventually created the distribution with funding from the Kerala State IT Mission
  • IT@School has managed to get concession on broadband rate for all schools
  • Resources which are available under GPL and Creative Commons can straight away be customised to their requirements. This builds innovation and networking without much financial burden
  • wants Kerala to become a FOSS destination. With 90% literacy rate
vas_kut

screencasters.heathenx.org - 0 views

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shared by vas_kut on 28 Jul 16 - Cached
  • vas_kut on 28 Jul 16
     
    inkscape tutorials.
Scott Beamer

Pinguy OS - 4 views

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shared by Scott Beamer on 26 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Scott Beamer on 26 Sep 10
     
    Pinguy OS an out-of-the-box working operating system for everyone, not just geeks This OS is for people that have never used Linux before or for people that just want an out-of-the-box working OS without doing all the tweaks and enhancements that everyone seems to do when installing a fresh copy of Ubuntu or other Linux based Distro's.
Scott Beamer

Google Chrome Alpha builds for Fedora - 0 views

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shared by Scott Beamer on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Scott Beamer on 19 Jun 09
     
    Nuff said.
Scott Beamer

qwit - 0 views

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shared by Scott Beamer on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Scott Beamer on 16 Jun 09
     
    Qt4 cross-platform client for Twitter
Scott Beamer

Murrine themes for GNOME/XFCE - 0 views

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shared by Scott Beamer on 18 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Scott Beamer on 18 Jun 09
     
    Features: * Modern, Clean, Shiny desktop experience. * Antialiased widgets using Cairo libraries. * Highly customizable trough an optional GUI, the Murrine Configurator. * Good rendering speed. * Animated progressbar, radiobuttons and checkbuttons.
Scott Beamer

Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe - 0 views

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shared by Scott Beamer on 12 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Scott Beamer on 12 Jul 09
     
    Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained [Linux-based] boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
  • Scott Beamer on 12 Jul 09
     
    Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
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