Fortiter Et Recte
It has caused much controversy over the years, but it looks like GIMP 2.8 will finally get a single windowed interface. This is not exactly bleeding edge news, but perhaps this picture might shed some light on what it might look like.
Image taken from http://imgur.com/rUJmS.jpg – origin unknown.
It’s happening all around the world, but here is a report from Germany and Danmark about schools rolling out OpenOffice.org.
The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk is installing OpenOffice on some 1700 school desktop PCs, the administration announced yesterday. The first school where OpenOffice will be installed is the Lindegård school. At the school earlier today mayor Rolf Aagaard-Svendsen showed the first desktop running the open source suite of productivity tools. According to a report by the Danish IT news site Version2, the move to open source is intended to prevent students from using unlicensed software.
Meanwhile in Germany, trials of OpenOffice.org has begun as servers are migrated to Linux.
The city of Münster has started a pilot using OpenOffice in schools. The city’s IT department, Citeq, will also switch all of the 150 servers used in its primary and secondary schools over to GNU/Linux. Half of these have already been migrated to open source.
Hopefully we will see more of this as time rolls on!
A few months ago Tridge demonstrated Samba4 to Samba4 replication and now this goes one step further for real world use. Andrew Bartlett has just blogged about the Samba team’s recent efforts in Redmond working with Microsoft to get a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to replicate a Samba4 server.
He wrote:
As the days and nights dragged on, greater progress began, and the Windows 2008 R2 server being joined progressively accepted more and more data from Samba4. But just as things looked bright, another failure would rob us of victory, and Hongwei would be sent another trace to analyse…
But as the final minutes arrived, there was time for one final run… Cameras were at the ready, as we waited impatiently for the Windows DC to join, and it was with total shock that, with 15 seconds to spare (and tridge’s taxi no doubt already waiting), the Windows domain controller joined.
This was the first time that Samba4 had hosted an AD domain that a Windows DC found sufficiently acceptable to replicate the whole directory, and be comfortable to set itself up as a peer domain controller.
With this (after some refinement), we will be able to show Samba4 as a viable option to be peer domain controller in any AD domain, able to host such domains alone or in partnership with Microsoft’s Windows.
Great work Samba team, you are amazing!
Looks like Java 5.0 will not be supported beyond the end of this month, according to the Sun download page.
J2SE 5.0 will reach its end of service life (EOSL) on October 30th, 2009. Public releases of the J2SE 5.0 platform will be stopped at that time. To extend the service life of J2SE 5.0, Sun offers Java SE for Business, a service offering that provides access to ongoing security and bug fix updates for J2SE 5.0 as well as early access to builds on the other Java SE platforms.
Time to switch everything to 6.0, pay for a business contract, or go OpenJDK?
Soon we should see no more “Draft N” wireless devices as the final spec has finally been approved.
I wonder what happened to those CSIRO patents that were blocking the finalisation? Did CSIRO relinquish them, or come to some sort of deal? Was it dropped entirely?
