Linux & Open Source

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BrOffice Chega ao Varejo

Published: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:55:03 +0000 Updated: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:55:03 +0000 |

Ia a um grande hipermercado na região da avenida Pacaembú em São Paulo quando me deparei com essa loja de Internet no estacionamento. A palavra “compatíveis” me chamou a atenção.

Entrei para perguntar.

— Companheiro, o que é esse Word compatível ? — Ah, é um programa aí que é compati… [...]

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Linux por todo lado

Published: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:29:13 +0000 Updated: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:29:13 +0000 |

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Linux expande seu uso como plataforma crítica para hospitais e comércio. [...]

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Linux no SERPRO

Published: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:45:20 +0000 Updated: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:45:20 +0000 |

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Não é novidade para ninguém que o SERPRO usa Linux massivamente.

Mas só para constar, hoje fui na unidade de São Paulo e logo na recepção, o PC da moça do cracha rodava Linux. Bisbilhotando a tela, vi no taskbar o Firefox, Thunderbird e a aplicação que cadastrava visitantes rodava dentro do Lotus Notes, tudo [...]

Linux & Open Source ● Web 2.0

NO Gimp, YES Picasa

Published: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:57:45 +0000 Updated: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:57:45 +0000 |

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While all Linux blogs are talking about new Gimp 2.4, I’m very happy with Picasa.

Yes, I know they have different purposes but Picasa does everything I need with my photos. It is intuitive, powerful, extremely easy to use, fast and nice.

You may say F-Spot is the OSS equivalent but I couldn’t spend more [...]

Linux & Open Source ● Web 2.0

Upgrade to WordPress 2.3

Published: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:59:38 +0000 Updated: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:59:38 +0000 |

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I upgraded yesterday my dear blog software to WordPress 2.3. From now on I’m using an easy and practical method that updates the software directly from the Subversion repository.

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How to Make Linux Distributions

Published: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:29:43 +0000 Updated: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:29:43 +0000 |

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To make a Linux Distribution is funnier and easier than you think. Just watch this video.

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Linux Pin-ups and Anime

Published: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:04:40 +0000 Updated: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:04:40 +0000 |

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Have you seen this? Juzo-kun has created beautiful girls to represent Linux distributions. They were later labeled by Wayne Richardson.

Full version of this graphics, separated by distro, are here.

Cross-culture things like that are cool. Now lets just wait for a Pin-up version.

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IBM Brazil Linux Technology Center

Published: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:16:39 +0000 Updated: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:16:39 +0000 |

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This is an old picture I just found in some deep folder here. Taken June 30 2006 in IBM Hortolândia site after my presentation to this team about IBM commercial vision of Linux.

The LTC team in Brazil is much bigger now.

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Linux & Open Source ● OpenDocument Format

IBM Now Officially Supports OpenOffice.org

Published: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:11:49 +0000 Updated: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:11:49 +0000 |

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IBM joins the OpenOffice.org community to develop and promote OpenOffice.org technology. [...]

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Índice Linux Journal, Agosto de 2007

Published: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:56:56 +0000 Updated: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:56:56 +0000 |

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Linux Journal Index, 08/2007 [...]

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Índice Linux Journal, Julho de 2007

Published: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:02:49 +0000 Updated: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:02:49 +0000 |

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Número de teclas necessárias para recuperar um documento no FBI: 13 Custo em milhões de dólares do systema Virtual Case File (VCF) do FBI: 170 Número de gerentes de TI no systema VCF em 40 meses: 15 Custo estimado, em milhões de dólares, do Sentinel, que vai entrar no lugar do VCF: 425 Número [...]

Essays ● Linux & Open Source

Escolhendo uma Distribuição Linux

Published: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:58:29 +0000 Updated: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:58:29 +0000 |

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Como escolher a melhor distribuição Linux para a sua empresa? Este artigo ajuda a organizar as idéias definindo prioridades para uma melhor escolha. Inclui uma comparação inédita entre Red Hat Enterprise Linux e SUSE Linux. Onde se enquadram distribuições totalmente gratuitas como Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora e outras? [...]

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Linux no Bradesco ?

Published: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:38:22 +0000 Updated: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:38:22 +0000 |

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Um flagra numa agência do Bradesco. O gigante financeiro do Brasil usa Linux sim. [...]

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Linux as a Standard Compared to OOXML

Published: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:52:18 +0000 Updated: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:52:18 +0000 |

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A small analysis of Linux mindset and ecosystem compared to OOXML versus ODF mindset and ecosystem. [...]

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Basic Subversion Repository Management

Published: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:22:51 +0000 Updated: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:22:51 +0000 |

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(This is a shared personal note, suggestions are welcome.)

Create a Subversion repository for a project, say The SVG Blog Icons:

Create the repository on the hosting panel with a project name (e.g. Blog Icons) and project ID (e.g. blogicons). Import the files: bash$ cd src/ bash$ ls blogicons bash$ export EDITOR=vi bash$ svn [...]

Events ● Linux & Open Source

San Francisco Linux World Day 3

Published: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:58:49 +0000 Updated: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:58:49 +0000 |

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Browse the full album.

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Events ● Linux & Open Source

San Francisco Linux World Day 2

Published: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:34:48 +0000 Updated: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:34:48 +0000 |

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Second day started with Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian presentation. He made it light talking about Lenovo Thinkpads will ship with SUSE Linux, mixed [open and closed] source challenge for enterprises, how is easy to make security with their AppArmor, the role of virtualization on reducing power consumption in data centers.

He put Linux application availability [...]

Events ● Linux & Open Source

San Francisco Linux World Day 1

Published: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:58:01 +0000 Updated: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:58:01 +0000 |

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1999 was the year I went to a Linux World & Expo event (blog notes in portuguese) for the first time, in Raleigh, NC. The small capital was chosen probably because of the strong Red Hat presence in that region.

A lot of things have changed since then. Red Hat doesn’t have a booth this [...]

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How to Get Attacked

Published: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:38:47 +0000 Updated: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:38:47 +0000 |

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I noticed Oded’s blog was attacked which makes me remember some things:

I was once invited to analyze a Linux machine that was invaded. I ended up writing an article about it to the brazilian Linux Magazine.

The problem with the machine was a VERY weak root passw0rd. We could also find the tools they [...]

Events ● Linux & Open Source

Linux World San Francisco Semana que Vem

Published: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:21:27 +0000 Updated: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:21:27 +0000 |

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Esta é a minha 4 semana nos EUA e tenho um monte de coisas para contar e mostrar aqui no blog, mas via ficar prá depois.

Já que estava por aqui, vou também para a Linux World semana que vem em San Francisco e pretendo contar com detalhes o que estiver acontecendo por lá.

Então [...]

Chronicles ● Linux & Open Source

Joomla! or Drupal ?

Published: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:59:12 +0000 Updated: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:59:12 +0000 |

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I went to this Buffalo Billiards bar in Austin, TX with some friends.

Right in the next table there was some folks playing billiard and wearing t-shirts written Joomla! Day 2007. I asked one of them:

“OK, so which one is better? Joomla! or Drupal ?” “You can choose whatever you want, they are both [...]

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Índice Linux Journal, Junho de 2007

Published: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:52:29 +0000 Updated: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:52:29 +0000 |

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Número de bilinários no mundo: 946 Número de bilinários na Índia: 36 Aumento de biolinários na Índia no ano passado: 12 Posição da Índia entre países com bilionários: 1 Número de bilionários no Japão: 24 Posição de Bangalore entre os que fazem buscas sobre “Linux” no Google: 1 Posição de Tókio entre os que [...]

Chronicles ● Linux & Open Source

You Win

Published: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:21:08 +0000 Updated: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:21:08 +0000 |

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At the entrance of Red Hat office in São Paulo…

Linux & Open Source

Platforms

Published: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:00:10 +0000 Updated: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:00:10 +0000 |

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In an internal account planning meeting:

“So what about to offer another architecture option for their SAP with Linux on Intel/AMD ?” — I said. “No no. A customer of this size can’t have such a critical application in Intel/AMD platform. System P [with AIX] is more reliable.”

Then I had to explain that Intel/AMD [...]

Essays ● Linux & Open Source

Quando Abrir o Código Fonte

Published: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:13:26 +0000 Updated: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:13:26 +0000 |

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Num evento promovido na Universidade Federal de São Carlos eu fiz uma palestra longa sobre middleware IBM em Linux. No final os estudantes fizeram ótimas perguntas sobre carreira, trabalho, tecnologia e uma das mais interessantes foi essa do título.

A resposta rápida é: se um software fechado ainda traz lucro para seu dono não há [...]

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Install Java on Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE with RPM

Published: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:07:18 +0000 Updated: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:07:18 +0000 |

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A concise guide on how to correctly install Java in RPM-based systems with the JPackage standard. Get Java correctly integrated into Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE and others. [...]

Linux & Open Source ● Multimedia

Fedora Post-installation Configurations

Published: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:31:03 +0000 Updated: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:31:03 +0000 |

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A short and practical guide on how to install proprietary technologies on Fedora Linux. Get MP3, DivX/Xvid, MP4, AVI, Flash, and fonts installed easily on Fedora Linux. [...]

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Índice Linux Journal, Maio de 2007

Published: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:37:05 +0000 Updated: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:37:05 +0000 |

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Bilhões de dólares que operadoras de cabos vão gastar até 2012 melhorando a capacidade de redes digitais: 80 Milhões de dólares cotados por uma facilidade de Internet de alta velocidade baseada em fibra ótica, em São Francisco: 500 Aumento de porcentagem em assinaturas fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) no Japão: 88 Milhões de assinaturas FTTH no Japão, [...]