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FOSSFA & INWENT just announced about the long waited for FOSS Business Model Training. This Training will teach you how to do successful business based on FOSS , in other words how FOSS can generate money. Full Details and Call for Participant is found h3r3 Quoted from the announcement " Wanted: Future trainers on “FOSS Business Models for Africa” in East and Southern Africa Application Deadline is 30th May 2009 The ict@innovation program invites applications to participate in a Training of Trainers on “African FOSS Business Models”. These trainings are designed to enable interested persons, institutions and businesses to act as trainers on the subject of building a business with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Participants will receive intensive training on FOSS business models in Africa; learn how ICT enterprises can use FOSS as a business; obtain necessary business skills to establish and operate a FOSS Business in Africa; and acquire knowledge and skills ...

Oracle acquired Sun, yes indeed that is a major acquisition that will affect the IT world and OPEN SOURCE world as well. Sun Microsystems is a good participant in the FOSS world by their successful projects 1) OpenOffice 2) Java 3) NEtBeans 4) MYSQL I'm not sure what is the future for those successful corner stones projects in the FOSS world. for example what Oracle will do with Mysql. I agree that Mysql is not a major competitor to Oracle DB engine , but still I don't know. The mail sent from Jonathan I. Schwartz Current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems is listed b3low: " From: Jonathan I. Schwartz To: allsun@sun.com Subject: Today's Sun/Oracle Announcement Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:34:16 -0700 (07:34 EDT) Today's Sun/Oracle Announcement This is one of the toughest emails I've ever had to write. It's also one of the most hopeful about Sun's future in the industry. For 27 years, Sun has stood for courage, innovation, a willingn...

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Arduino is an Open Source Hardware Project with Open Source Software.It is an electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. It is programmable via CC code. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software on running on a computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). The boards can be built by hand or purchased preassembled; the software can be downloaded for free. The hardware reference designs (CAD files) are available under an open-source license, you are free to adapt them to...

New in this release "Wine 1.1.19" - Support for Visual C++ project files in winemaker. - Improvements to the Esound driver. - Many Direct3D code cleanups. - Fixes to OLE clipboard handling. - OpenBSD compilation fixed. - Various bug fixes. Bugs Fixed Bugs fixed in 1.1.19: 61 winemaker: Add support for the Visual C++ project files 3005 Bink video causes Alien vs Predator Gold to freeze untill killed 3697 Evil Genius does not run 3863 When i install the HPAD the everything is shown in HINDI not in ENGLISH 4175 The incorrect list window in the p-cad 2001. 5439 Menus don't collapse properly in Shareaza 6966 CSpy/IP Address: Cannot overwrite field text 7033 CSpy/Up-Down: Cursor in wrong position 7536 Gravity has database troubles 9187 BBC iPlayer installer claims IE6 is not installed 11958 Magic Workstation (mws play) Stops Displaying Cards 12292 Michelin Rally Masters: Application crashes when PAL_8 Texture and Mipmapping option...

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It sounds this blog is getting popular specially with LinuxToday. as this is the second time LinuxToday linkx to an article on geek2live. Today link is to MultiTrack Audio Editing Software. Thank you Linuxtoday fooks Link on Linuxtoday is h3r3

Egyptian Ubuntu Users had a successful meeting yesterday 03 April 200. That had many objectives with the main one , is getting some action in the Egyptian Ubuntu Users Group in Egypt. Interesting discussions have been raised from many prespective and actions items has been raised such 1) Host content that we will generate in Arabic on Ubuntu related websites ( ubuntuforums, launchpad ....etc) 2) Write an arabic FAQ. 3) Translate www.ubuntuguide.org These are only initial steps to get the wheel spinning. Ahmed Toulan and Mohammed Gamal agreed to start translating ubuntuguide together. asking for volunteers if any. Some of the names attended the meeting are : Mohammed Gamal, Mostafa Zaki, Ahmed Toulan , and Samer Azmy.

HP just announced that they are testing and considering Andriod as Operating System for some of their Netbooks as an alternative to other operating systems. Analysts said the move would allow HP to develop a low-cost netbook optimized for wireless networks that provides access to Web-based services such as Google Docs, but others questioned whether the Google software is ready for such a task. "Right now Android is barely finished for phones," said Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current Analysis. While it works well enough for T-Mobile's G1 smartphone, the software was released only last year and "the UI still feels half-finished," he said. HP stressed that it was still only testing Android, an OS based on the open-source Linux kernel. It has assigned engineers to the task but has made no decision yet whether to offer Android in products, said HP spokeswoman Marlene Somsak. The news was first reported earlier Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal. "We w...

Fedora 11 Beta Just released and I'm happy to blog on that. and in mean while will point to Fedora 11 Beta Screenshot link is h3r3 Released Notes of Fedora 11 Beta is h3r3