Lilux-info October 2005

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by Thierry Coutelier

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yet Another Online Petition. Should Microsoft Office support the OpenDucoment format? http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/ - -- Thierry Coutelier Président LiLux asbl 7, Rue Jacques Sturm L-2556 Luxembourg Office:+352 710725 608 Home:+352 406776 http://www.lilux.lu/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDZjZWPOfrcNNQX7oRAvGWAJ0TvYgbJul/W+UYc6oAfnraM27dIwCZAd/b bJjzbwQJXOXPaLWp5iotvz4= =UEIn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

18 years, 6 months

Le libre, c'est bien le Perou !

by Michel Maria-Sube

see: http://fr.news.yahoo.com/25102005/308/le-libre-c-est-bien-le-perou.html and also: http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/Le_logiciel_libre_cest_le_Perou.ht and other good news (links) M.

18 years, 6 months

Next meeting 3rd of November, 20h00 at the LGL

by Alain Knaff

As the rooms are unavailable this week, we plan to hold our October's meeting the first week of November. Any volunteers for presentations? Alain

18 years, 6 months

Ubuntu !?

by Serge Marelli (LiLux)

Hi, I was wondering whether anyone would be interrested in ordering Ubuntu/Edubuntu/Kubuntu CDs for the v:5.10 (Breezy Badger) as we did a while back for the older v:4. For those who don't know Ubuntu, here's the link : http://www.ubuntu.com/ (I still have a few v:4 CDs for MacIntosh, AMD64 and x86 and they're nice !) So it might be cheaper (for the Ubuntu people) to ship one larger bunch of CDs to one person in .lu than ship 10 or 20 isolated CDs. Of course some prefer to download and burn their own CDs. Serge -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, architect and author (1743-1826) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg ----------------------------------------------------------------------

18 years, 6 months

Das Linux der Noten

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, The german magazine "Der Spiegel" has an article about "Das Linux der Noten" - "The Linux of the (music) notes": http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,380198,00.html Lots of stuff on music and alternative dissemination methods. Try the fish for a translation. Greetings, Eric

18 years, 6 months

Luxie Locale

by Steve Clement

Hi, has anyone a: lu_LU locale on either BSD or Linux? I know how to do it on FreeBSD to custom make a Locale file (mklocale) Under (Free)BSD there's no fr_LU (on Linux there is) and I wanted to take that as a template. Anyone got a good howto? thanks, STeve C -- ION Network Solutions Steve Clement Unix System Administrator 209, rue des Romains L-8041 Bertrange Tel: +352 261 276-2 Fax: +352 261 276-9 mailto:steve@ion.lu http://www.ion.lu

18 years, 6 months

[Fwd: [Patents] FOSS luminaries call to worldwide vote against software patents]

by Thierry Coutelier

French version: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=678 German version: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=677 FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE LUMINARIES CALL ON WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY TO VOTE AGAINST SOFTWARE PATENTS IN THE "EUROPEAN OF THE YEAR 2005" INTERNET POLL Richard Stallman, Tim O'Reilly, Alan Cox, Rasmus Lerdorf and Monty Widenius endorse Florian Mueller's candidacy "because he runs on a NoSoftwarePatents ticket, and that is the message we want to reinforce" Brussels (20 October 2005) -- A group of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) celebrities has weighed in on the election of the "European of the Year 2005" by calling on "software developers and users around the globe" to vote for Florian Mueller, the founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, in a public online poll. The illustrious consortium consists of--in alphabetical order of last name--Alan Cox, Red Hat Fellow and Linux kernel maintainer; Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP programming language; Tim O'Reilly, book publisher and conference organizer; Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation (who in 1984 began the work that produced today's popular GNU/Linux operating system); and Monty Widenius, creator of the MySQL database. In a NoSoftwarePatents press release, the community leaders today expressed their support for the voting recommendations that NoSoftwarePatents.com has published in more than a dozen languages: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/vote.html Participants in the poll are required to make a choice in each of ten categories, and the voting list provided by NoSoftwarePatents.com explains the role that various candidates played in the software patent debate so that voters can reward the opponents of software patents and penalize pro-patent politicians. On 22 September, Florian Mueller was nominated for the most prestigious award in EU politics, the "EV50 Europeans of the Year". The jury thereby recognized his political efforts against a legislative proposal that in his opinion would have legalized software patents in Europe. The European Parliament rejected the bill on 6 July by a landslide of 648-32 votes. Mueller, who stressed that he owes this nomination "to our entire community and especially to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)", is credited with founding a multilingual campaign website, speaking out in the media and at public events, and lobbying MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) as well as governments and parliaments in select EU member states. The European Voice, a major EU-focused weekly, is now conducting an Internet poll in which Mueller runs against such famous contenders as U2 frontman Bono, Bob Geldof, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, and political leaders including British prime minister Tony Blair, the outgoing German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, and Schroeder's successor designate Angela Merkel. The poll is open to the worldwide public until 11 November. Mueller's endorsers pointed out that the FOSS community has played a particularly active role in the fight against software patents, but that software patents "threaten us all because they don't discriminate based on programming language, operating system, or licensing model". The group is "disconcerted by early reports" that the EU is now looking at alternative ways of giving software patents a stronger legal basis in Europe, such as an EU community patent regulation. The press release underscored the fact that "this is a campaign for a cause, not for a person": People are asked to vote for Mueller "because he runs on a NoSoftwarePatents ticket, and that is the message we want to reinforce". The NoSoftwarePatents.com label is right next to Mueller's name on the ballot (http://www.ev50.com/poll). The endorsement furthermore stated: "Some other nominees also stand for valid concerns and noble causes. However, those issues and individuals have already received a lot of coverage in the mass media, while the implications of software patents to the whole world, including developing countries, still require much more public awareness. In the sense that software patents monopolize mental steps, they are also a human rights issue." Mueller is confident that he can win the title of the "European of the Year" against his famous competitors in the light of the "indisputable e-campaigning power of the anti-software patent movement". In addition to a campaign statement and voting recommendations, the website provides an email form that allows supporters to spread the information (http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/notify.html), and banners (http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/banners.html). The two main slogans of the electoral campaign are "Vote against software patents" and "Vote for your right to program". Should he win the popular vote, Mueller said that "everyone is a winner". He promised "to donate the Microsoft-sponsored prize money to the FFII", without which he says he "probably wouldn't have become involved, let alone succeeded, in this political battle". The EV50 winners will be announced on 29 November. A gala evening at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels will be hosted by former European Parliament President Pat Cox, who was hired by US corporations to lobby for software patents in the build-up to the 6 July vote. The EV50 awards are supported by Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. Sponsors include PR and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller, software maker Microsoft Corporation (a major owner and backer of software patents), and pharmaceutical giant Novartis. The European Voice is a publication of the Economist group. NOTE: Florian Mueller founded the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign in 2004 with the support of three corporate sponsors (1&1, Red Hat, MySQL AB), and managed it until March of 2005. He then gave his website to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), the leading European pressure group that opposes the patentability of computer programs. CONTACT INFORMATION Florian Mueller florian.mueller(a)nosoftwarepatents.com -- Thierry Coutelier Président LiLux asbl 7, Rue Jacques Sturm L-2556 Luxembourg Office:+352 710725 608 Home:+352 406776 http://www.lilux.lu/

18 years, 6 months

practical tool for switching networks

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, for those of you using KDE on a notebook, and "feeling the pain" of switching from one network to another regularly, there's a nice tool available, netGo: http://netgo.hjolug.org/ You can define multiple profiles, and just switch them around by clicking the tray icon. Quicker than using scripts IMHO. Greets Eric

18 years, 6 months

LinuxDays 2006 pool

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, a poll has been started on the LinuxDays website, asking for your vote on the subjects you'd like to see in conferences or tutorials. Feel free to submit your choices at: http://www.linuxdays.lu/Polls/LxD2006_TopicPoll Greetings, Eric

18 years, 6 months

[Fwd: Vote for Rocard/Mueller for the "European of the Year" award]

by Thierry Coutelier

Dear Supporter of Noepatents.eu.org, Let me thank you for your participation in our web demonstration in the spring. As you know, our efforts ultimately led to the rejection of the proposed software patent directive by the European Parliament. We now have the next opportunity to demonstrate the unpopularity of software patents, and to draw attention to our cause. For the most prestigious awards in EU politics, the "EV50 Europeans of the Year Awards" by the European Voice (an EU-focused weekly newspaper), the jury has nominated two software patent critics, Michel Rocard MEP and NoSoftwarePatents.com founder Florian Mueller. With the power of the Internet, we would like to ensure that our candidates win, and nominees who are in favor of software patents (such as EU commissioner McCreevy) lose. Please participate in the public Internet poll, and you can find voting recommendations and further instructions here: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/vote.html Please display a banner on your website: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/banners.html There is a convenient way to inform your friends by email: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/notify.html Those materials are available in 12 languages. The language can be chosen from a pull-down menu at the top of the page, or in the list of languages at the bottom of each page. Thank you for your continued support, -- Henrion Benjamin <bh(a)udev.org> Noepatents.eu.org

18 years, 6 months

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