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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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