‘I’m Linux’ Contest Rules:

• Open to anyone over 18 (due to legal and travel restrictions)
• Winner receives airfare/hotel and conference registration for Linux Foundation Japan Symposium in October 2009.
• Contest winner to be decided by a panel of judges picked by the Linux Foundation
• Each video needs to be no longer than 60 seconds in length
• Each video cannot violate our terms of service. (Don’t violate others’ intellectual property rights, don’t post anything offensive, etc.)
• The contest opens Jan 26 and will close at midnight pacific on March 15, 2009. Winners will be showcased at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.
• The prize: Airfare (from the airport closest to winner’s home to Narita, Japan) and accommodations (double occupancy) will be provided for three nights.

‘I’m Linux’ Contest Guidelines:

• In 60 seconds or less, showcase your take on "I’m Linux." This should be why you love it and should inspire others to use it. The video can be an extensive production, a plain testimonial or as simple as a screen capture with a voice over. Be creative, be authentic and have fun.
• While you may be inspired by the Apple or Microsoft commercials, it’s not a requirement to parody or make reference to them.
• Humor is always a good way to showcase your passion (and win a contest), but is not required.
• Judging criteria will be: originality, clarity of message and how much it inspires others to use Linux. The judges will also take into account community votes on the Linux Foundation video site such as number of favorites and starred voting, but that is not the sole criteria for winning.
• Enter as many unique entries as you’d like. Please do not submit duplicate entries. Any entry that violates copyright protections or the Linux Foundation Terms of Use will be disqualified and removed.
• Companies or communities can have their own entry but only one individual can win. (This means there can be multiple Ubuntu or OpenSuse entries but the person submitting the winning video gets to go to Japan. You can say who you’re representing in the video if it’s important to you.)
• Please vote for and comment on your favorites. This is a community contest.
• Enter the contest and vote on this site!

People who are willing to participate in ‘I’m Linux’ contest can upload their videos here at Linux Foundation website.

Source: The "I’m Linux" Video Contest

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The Adobe AIR runtime lets developers use web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.Now Users will be able to build AIR applications by using Web development technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, ActionScript and Adobe Flex. The same AIR installer runs on all three platform Linux, Windows, and Macintosh.

Features of AIR 1.5

• Includes Flash Player 10 capabilities
• Support for custom filters and effects
• Native 3D transformations & animation
• WebKit JavaScript engine
• SquirrelFish,to make JavaScript execute faster
• An encrypted database

System requirements for Linux

• Intel Pentium III 1GHz or faster processor, 512MB of RAM
• Recommended: Pentium 4 2GHZ or faster, 1GB RAM
• Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10, openSUSE 10.3

This product is available in 16 languages.

Adrian Ludwig said, group product manager for the platform business unit at Adobe-

"We’re experiencing nearly 100 million installations of Adobe AIR on Mac and Windows by the end of this year, that strength of platform across Mac and Windows is going to make it very easy for developers to build applications that will end up running on Linux as well."

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Ubuntu is a community developed operating system for laptops, desktops and servers. Ubuntu contains all the applications you’ll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

The updated features of Ubuntu 8.10 Beta (Intrepid Ibex) are listed below

• Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
• OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
• The GIMP 2.4.7
• F-Spot 0.4.4
• Pidgin 2.5.1
• Brasero 0.8.2
• Transmission 1.34
• Rhythmbox 0.11.6
• Ekiga 2.0.12
• Evolution 2.24.0
• Nautilus 2.24.0
• Vinagre 2.24.0

The advance features of Ubuntu 8.10 Beta (Intrepid Ibex)

1. Intrepid Ibex will be available in amazing desktop with better performance can work on any computer.
2. With the updated version you will be able to connect to Internet. It’ll support wireless connection also.
3. pam-auth-update : Intrepid Ibex has introduced new tool called pam-auth-update, it will allows you to manage the PAM authentication     configuration for both servers and workstations.
4. Totem: A Ubuntu movie player enable you to fetch digital content from BBC.

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Beta will be available in three forms for all type of users

1. Desktop CD: It’ll allow you to install Ubuntu on your computer based on your system configuration {PC (Intel x86) desktop CD and  64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD }, You will need at least 256MB of RAM to install from this CD.
2. Server install CD: It’ll  allow you to install Ubuntu permanently on a computer for use as a server{PC (Intel x86) server install CD  and 64-bit PC (AMD64) server install CD }
3. Alternate install CD: It will perform some functions like creating pre-configured OEM systems, setting up automated deployments,  upgrading from older installations without network access and LVM and/or RAID partitioning based on PC (Intel x86) alternate install CD and 64-bit PC (AMD64) alternate install CD.

Note: This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on October 30th, 2008.

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For Windows applications for which there is no suitable Linux-friendly version or alternative, Ubuntu 8.04′s KVM and Xen-based virtualization tools offer a free, built-in means of running Windows software from within an Ubuntu system.

Alpha 6 includes "Intrepid Ibex" and many more additional features that will help you to find the bugs and fixes it.

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BOSS is a GNU/Linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS for enhancing the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the country. The NRCFOSS is promoted by the Department of Information Technology, MC&IT, Government of India to address the issues related to FOSS in the Indian context and to explore how FOSS can play the twin roles of helping to bridge the digital divide as well as strengthening the Indian software industry.

S. Ramakrishnan, director general, C-DAC said:

“C-DAC is committed on developing software solutions that are technologically advanced, yet providing value to Indian user community. Our constant endeavor to increase the adoption of computing among a wide cross section of Indian users, especially those in government first time users and Indian language centric users.”

List of applications this version includes -

• GIMP
• PDF Viewer (including an Edit function)
• RSS Feed Reader
• Firewall
• Firefox 3.0
• Instant Messenger
• Bluetooth for short range communication
• Desktop sharing and Remote Desktop Connection
• CD and DVD Burning tool
• Package Manager
• Strong support for Printers, Digital/Web, Cameras and for Scanner

Also with this release, a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between C-DAC and NIC (National Informatics Center). This action has been taken with the purpose of implementing BOSS Linux on eGovernance applications developed and maintained by the NIC.

About BOSS Linux:
BOSS Linux tries, and succeeds in being the optimal choice for government employees from India. The needs of this kind of users involve mostly office applications, like spread sheet or word processor, and of course, accessing multimedia and the Internet, all of them done in a safe environment. BOSS Linux has been proved to excel with this sort of tasks, while being absolutely free to install, use, modify and distribute.
Another trait of BOSS Linux is that it brings technology to more people than ever before, by supporting many Indian languages and being very easy to install and use. These advantages and more make BOSS Linux the OS of choice for a great number of Internet cafes owners, as it is cheap, friendly, language-supportive and a more than adequate replacement for unlicensed proprietary software.

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• gcc 3.4.6
• BIND 9.4.2-p1
• Sendmail, bzip2 and OpenSSH 5.0p1.

The pcc compiler has been added (i386). GNU cpio has been replaced with the BSD licensed version. cpdup and mksh have been added. There are IPv6 fixes.

Lucas Holt, main developer of MidnightBSD said

Users who install kde from the ISOs will be able to enable graphical login on bootup. A script now runs on the first boot asking to enable bsdstats and ‘graphical desktop environment’. If the script finds kdm, it will enable it automatically. If you select yes without KDE, it will install and enable slim login manager. I would greatly appreciate users installing bsdstats so that we can get a better idea on usage.

List of features you will get in MidnightBSD 0.2.1 GCC 3.4.6 Bind 9.4.2-p1 Sendmail Bzip2 OpenSSH 5.0p1 PPC compiler added (i386) Removal of gnu cpio for BSD licensed version cpdup added IPv6 fixes mksh added

Five major points of MidnightBSD are:

1. Setup a binary update system. Therefore, users do not need to compile patches or new releases to get security updates or bug fixes.
2. Integrate GNUstep into the system, but maintain BSD licensing on its own code whenever possible. The kernel and most userland software must be BSD licensed.
3. Create an easy to use BSD-powered desktop environment, with basic functionality and a full graphical administration interface.
4. Incorporate new technologies from other BSD projects that may interest desktop users, such as OpenBSD’s OpenNNTP, OpenSSH, and wireless drivers.
5. Create its own ports system, based on the popular FreeBSD ports.

Source : MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE

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The PC -BSD team states

This release marks the first PC-BSD based on FreeBSD 7-STABLE and the KDE 4.1 desktop, and also provides many new ways to install, including DVD, USB and Network/Internet installation choices. Our PBI site has also been updated with a wide variety of software ready for PC-BSD 7, with more being added weekly.

Advance Features

• FreeBSD 7-STABLE
• FreeBSD Ports-3
• FreeBSD System Source
• KDE 4.1
• KDE Language Packages
• KDE Educational Games 4.1
• KDE Toys 4.1
• KDE SDK 4.1
• OpenOffice 2.4.1 PBI
• Opera 9.51 PBI
• Firefox 3.0.0.1 PBI
• K3B 1.0.4 PBI
• Xorg 7.3

Its main goal is To hide the complexity of FreeBSD and to deliver an alternative to Linux on the desktop.The web-based software installation infrastructure called PBI. Also, a new version of the PBI Builder software has been made available today. This update will allow the building of PBI files & modules for the upcoming release of PC-BSD 7. The team is currently releasing weekly Alpha ISO’s, that allow us to test out the new features, and fix bugs associated with the switch to a FreeBSD 7 and KDE 4.1 base

PC-BSD version 1.5.1 is now available for download as both ISO and updates from version 1.5. This version provides updates to the default port set, as well as numerous bug fixes to the system tools & utilities.CodeWeavers has made the announcement that an experimental build of CrossOver Games is now available for PC-BSD users. This unsupported edition will allow users to test out playing Windows games on their PC-BSD desktop.The 1.5 Live CD, users who want to try PC-BSD without having to install it, or those who want to use PC-BSD for testing/developing purposes can now download the 1.5 VMware image.

System Requirements

• Pentium 4 or higher
• 512MB of Ram
• 12GB of free Hard Drive space (either partition, or entire disk)
• Network card
• Sound card
• 3D accelerated video card (NVIDIA or Intel)

Download PC-BSD 7 Beta 1

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