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Roundup of Linux Distributions for the Schools

Nov 172011

An important field where GNU/Linux is gaining ground is that of schools, both primary and secondary.

I think it’s important to teach children and young people that there is a whole world of open source software to explore, and that not everything that is connected to a computer means Windows and/or proprietary systems.

There are specialized distributions to help teachers in making their students know at this world, in this article we’ll see an overview of these distributions.
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How to make dmesg timestamp human readable

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Nov 132011

After the update to Ubuntu 11.10 my wireless goes up and down, and so i’m trying to debug this problem looking into dmesg.

But this brought me to another small issue, dmesg prints timestamps in the form of seconds.nanoseconds since the system booted. And no, there seems to be no -h option to make it human readable. so you should check your boot time and make some calculations to see where the events logged are happened.

This don’t seem so useful !
Let’s see how to have these information in a better format.
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OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice – Two excellent choices

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Nov 122011

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Frank Harris-Smith

Just over a year ago the open source Office Suite world was disturbed by indecision, much the same way world stock markets have been upset by uncertainty today. Oracle had purchased Sun Microsystems and with it the “ownership” of the open source office suite OpenOffice.org.

Being unsure of what Oracle would do with OpenOffice.org a number of the key developers at OO.org left and formed the Document Foundation. They named their fork of the OO.org code “LibreOffice”. “Libre” meaning “little or no restriction.”
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Some changes on Linuxaria.com

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Nov 122011

Dear readers, in these days I’ve worked “under the hood” on the website, and hopefully this will improve your experience on linuxaria.com

The first thing that you have probably already noticed it’s that now the site uses more width on the screen, I’ve made some changes on the theme and now it should use a variable width of your screen (98% to be exact) with some exception for resolutions above 1600 and resolutions below 800, that use these 2 values as limit.

But that’s not all, I’ve tweaked the site with 2 WordPress plugins: W3 Total cache and WPtouch, let’s see in details how this has changed the site.

update for 2 Italian floss: Xplico and UbuBox SalentOS

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Nov 082011

I received two emails, from two project managers of open source projects that I’m following, both gave me the good news of an update of the product and so i’m glad to present you in this post the update of two excellent software which I have already spoken Xplico and Ububox SalentOS
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