"An estimated 45,000 students from a province in Indonesia have
enhanced their education and computer-usage knowledge through a pilot
program using Linux and openSUSEthat is expected to become a
nationwide educational program.
>From 2009 to 2014, the project called “Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) Utilization for Educational Quality Enhancement in
Yogyakarta Province” used openSUSE and created material with Linux to
enhance educational quality and equality inYogyakarta Province
schools."
-- source: http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/832417
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'Security firm ESET has published a report on new malware that targets
Linux-based communication devices (modems, routers, and other
internet-connected systems) to create a giant proxy network for
manipulating social media. It's also capable of hijacking DNS
settings. The people controlling the system use it for selling
"follows," "likes," and so forth on social media sites like Twitter,
Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and Google+. Affected router manufacturers
include: Actiontec, Hik Vision, Netgear, Synology, TP-Link, ZyXEL, and
Zhone. The researchers found that even some medical devices were
vulnerable to the worm, though it wasn't designed specifically to work
with them.'
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/05/26/1854207
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
"After struggling for the past several years, Mandriva has finally
gone out of business, and is in the process of being liquidated. The
company was responsible for Mandriva Linux, itself a combination of
Mandrake Linux and Conectiva Linux. When Mandriva fell upon hard
times, many of the distro's developers migrated to Mageia Linux, which
is still going strong and just putting the final touches on its next
major version (5).'
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/05/26/2157243
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
"Have you ever thought of making your own Linux Distribution? Every
Linux user in their journey to Linux thought of making their own Linux
distribution, at-least once. Even I was not an exception as a newbie
to Linux land and have given my considerable time developing my own
Linux Distribution. Developing a Linux Distribution from scratch is
called Linux From Scratch (LFS)."
-- source: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/how-to-develop-own-custom-linux-distrib…
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
"The Zimbra Collaboration Server is a mail server, collaborative web
application and a web based mail server admin console in a single
application. It provides LDAP, antivirus, antispam, collaboration
features and a ajax webmail client. Zimbra is easy to use for
administrators as well as end users due to its fast Ajax based web
interface."
-- source: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-14-04-zimbra-server/
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
Hi,
At last nights wlug meeting I did a show and tell of my recent adventures with downloading and installing Debian 8 Live + non-free.
I had encountered a problem with the Gnome3 desktop in that the Debian Installer application, which displays itself in full-screen mode, was not positioned correctly. As a result the Debian Installer applications "continue" and "go back" buttons are off the bottom of the display.
Today I bumped into Ian Young, who provided a solution to this Gnome3 / Debian Installer problem. The workaround is to type Alt+Spacebar to open up a menu. Then select "Move to Workspace Down". The debian installer is placed into the second display workspace and in full-screen mode it is now positioned correctly so all pushbuttons may be accessed.
I've tested out the Debian8 Installer on the KDE, xfce, LXDE, and Mate desktop environments and they position the Debian Installer window correctly.
Also at last nights meeting I suggested the following command to copy the .iso file to a USB stick as device sdc...
$ sudo dd if="debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-gnome-desktop nonfree.iso" of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync
An alternative to this, which I tested out OK today is...
$ sudo cp "debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-gnome-desktop nonfree.iso" /dev/sdc
...wishing you all the best with Debian8.
cheers, Ian.
I’ve been hitting an occasional display freeze that matches this
description <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7675146.html>. Looks
like a known problem with the 3.16 kernel. I thought things had got
better with a system update I did 11 days ago, but this afternoon the
freeze recurred.
Unlike the previous times, killing all my user processes succeeded in
unfreezing the display, so I was able to log in again without rebooting.
Hi everyone
We have a meeting tomorrow:
"git - from novice to master. Lawrence D'Oliveiro will introduce you
to the distributed revision control system git, demonstrating the
basic commands and also more advanced actions."
http://www.meetup.com/WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup/events/222463816
Unfortunately, due to work commitments, I won't be able to make it.
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/