Sunday, February 15, 2009
Cuba launches its own version of Linux for desktop computers
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Cuba launched the operating system 'Nova', its own distribution of Linux, as part of a national strategy to encourage the progressive migration of its statewide network to the 'software' free, informed the local press on Thursday and their designers.
"Cuba now has a proprietary tool to advance the migration of various institutions to 'software' free ', the newspaper Juventud Rebelde said, stressing that Nova is a Cuban distribution of GNU / Linux", with an interface friendly and easy to understand for newbies.
Nova, "while not completely free since it contains some private drivers, has multiple uses, such as the Open Office word processor, the Mozilla Firefox browser," said Angel Goñi, a member of the group of teachers and students of Computer Science University of Havana (UCI), who designed it.
The Cuban system was presented to the International Convention Informatics 2009, meeting until next Friday in Havana, attended by 2,000 delegates, including 800 foreigners from 49 countries.
The Office for Informatization of Cuba in 2004 a design strategy to ensure the progressive migration of the network state sistemma Linux operating Cuban andalusia, thereby eliminating the presence of almost exclusively on Microsoft Windows machines.
The strategy includes actions of organization, techniques, design of a legal framework as well as training and the gradual change of the systems from Windows to Linux.
The Linux operating system differs from similar in that its Windows source code is completely open, and therefore can be modified and distributed by the user as many times as you like.
The reading aloud of the book is a challenge
0 comments Posted by Lesbond at Sunday, February 15, 2009
The U.S. Authors Guild announced on Friday that the new role of the electronic book from Amazon, Kindle 2, read aloud, provide a "significant challenge" for the publishing industry.
"We are studying this issue closely and keep them informed," the guild said in a message to its members on its website authorsguild.org.
"This presents a significant challenge for the publishing industry," said the union on Thursday, noting that sales of audio books exceeded 1000 million U.S. dollars in 2007.
The union warned its members to ensure that the use made of the rights of Amazon books was part of his contract with the publishers.
"While the matter is resolved, Amazon may be undermining its market while exploiting their audio e-books," he added.
"Combining e-books with audio books was something that was discussed at length in the industry," said the message. "It's a good idea, but should not be conducted by a distributor of electronic books."
Amazon launched the Kindle 2 in a press conference in New York on Monday. Besides being thinner and faster than the previous model, the Kindle 2, a slim electronic tablet which can store about 1,500 titles in less than 300 grams, also has a function of reading aloud.
