OpenDesktop ....

open desktop 24

La filosofía del sitio es : “Creemos que juntos podemos cambiar el mundo y crear un escritorio mejor sin aplicaciones propietarias.”

Las páginas a integrarse bajo opendesktop.org son:

por tipo de aplicacion:

• kde-apps.org

• gtk-apps.org

• qt-apps.org

• cli-apps.org

• maemo-apps.org

por tipo de desktop:

• kde-look.org

• gnome-look.org

• xfce-look.org

• box-look.org

• e17-stuff.org

• beryl-themes.org

• compiz-themes.org

por distro:

• debian-art.org

• gentoo-art.org

• suse-art.org

• ubuntu-art.org

• kubuntu-art.org

OpenOffice ....

Para los que quieran apresurar el open office hagan esto:

Para utilizar los diccionarios, igual metanse en la siguiente pagina:

http://es.openoffice.org/lecturas/lecturas_0009.html

Ubuntu 7.10

Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 CD ISOs

25 de julio 2007

The Ubuntu development team on July 24 released the third alpha of Ubuntu 7.10 (aka "Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3"). The release is in the form of a live CD build whose ISO images "are known to be reasonably free of show-stopper... bugs," the team's announcement said.

In addition to providing the ISO images for Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3, the release included Alpha 3 ISOs for Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu -- specialized derivatives of Ubuntu 7.10 for KDE desktop (instead of GNOME), educational, and lightweight use, respectively.

Features included in the new alpha are detailed at Ubuntu's testing website. In particular, Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 is said to include:

• Gnome 2.19.5 and "a whole host of bug fixes"
  
• Power profiles for a more accurate picture of battery lifespan
  
• Rhythmbox 0.11.1
  
• AppArmor security framework by Novell (with mandatory access control)
  

CD ISO images are available for 32- and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 and its derivatives, targeting both desktop and server installations. For download details, visit these Ubuntu project sites:

• Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 -- standard GNOME version
  
• Kubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 -- KDE version
  
• Edubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 -- Ubuntu for classrooms
  
• Xubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 -- lightweight version with Xfce desktop, for old and low end machines and thin clients
  

Each of these Ubuntu variants has its own information-rich home page, located here: Ubuntu; Kubuntu; Edubuntu; Xubuntu.

The announcement stressed the need for users to be aware of issues before using any Alpha 3 version, including such problems as "occasional or even frequent breakage." The purpose of the alpha release, the announcement said, is to enable the team to gain help "in testing, reporting and fixing bugs."

October is the target date for release of stable versions based on Linux kernel 2.6.22, along with GNOME 2.20 or KDE 3.5.7, as appropriate, as well as a server edition that includes Novell's AppArmor security framework, the announcement said.

Read the complete release announcement here.

linus contra GNOME

Linus ya esta viejo vean solo lo que dice, yo uso GNOME y me vale caca

Linus versus GNOME Feb. 23, 2007

Analysis -- It's no secret that Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder, dislikes the GNOME desktop. In 2005, for example, Torvalds posted on the GNOME-usability list that "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE."

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Torvalds feels this way, in part, due to his perception that "This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do."

In a recent series of posting to the Linux Foundation's Desktop Architects mailing list -- a list for developers working on finding common ground, ala the Project Portland, for the various Linux desktop environments -- Torvalds went into more detail as to exactly why he prefers KDE's approach to the desktop, to that of GNOME.

In a Desktop Architects thread about printing dialogs and GNOME, Torvalds wrote,

There is a _huge_ difference between "being easy to use" and "_only_ being easy to use."

"Being easy to use" is important, because it means that there isn't a very high learning curve. That's _good_.

"ONLY being easy to use" is bad, because it means that once the initial learning curve is over, maybe you know the program, but you can't actually do what you WANT to do. And that's *bad*. That's *really* bad. It's actually much worse than being hard to use to begin with, in many ways.

And one of the problems Torvalds has with GNOME is: "Gnome people seem to think that once you 'got into it,' you never want to do anything more. Not true."

Christian F.K. Schaller, a senior GNOME developer, responded, "GNOME offers a lot of customization options, but some of them requires you for instance to get extra applications to easily get to. An often used such add-on for power users is Devils Pie." In addition, "there are many more such add-ons available and of course a lot of things a power user can tweak using gconf-editor." Schaller also invited Torvalds to give GNOME a try for a month.

Torvalds angrily responded, "Why the hell do you have to point to bogus programs that don't actually do what I want?" Torvalds continued, " I *know* what I want. I *know* gnome doesn't support it. How do I know? I've used it. I looked at the code. I talked to the original author of the code. The author, and the code, all agree: gnome doesn't do what I want."

"I want something very simple: I want to configure my mouse button window events," explained Torvalds. "That doesn't sound so bad, does it? Everybody else can do it, gnome does not. My laptop has a two-button mouse, which means that I want the right button to do something more useful than show me the menu that I never use."

So what did Torvalds do about this problem? He "actually wrote the code to fix the thing," and "sent the patches off to add the capabilities" to GNOME.

This drives Torvalds up the wall, because he feels "gnome people always make *excuses*. It took me a few hours to actually do the patches. It wasn't that hard. So why didn't I do it years ago?"

As the thread continued, it became clear that the underlying problem is that Torvalds and the GNOME project have contradictory design goals. Torvalds wants to increase users' access to the system to give them the maximum possible power, while GNOME aims to increase the system's usability by making it as easy to use as possible. For GNOME, this means limiting access to the system from the GUI.

As Schaller put it, in a blog note on the discussion, the general GNOME policy is "'no GUI options before thinking'. This policy did come into effect with GNOME 2.x and it came about both due to UI [user interface] design usability discussions, but also as a result of seeing our config menu's get clogged with options which mostly where there due to bugs, missing features and a heterogeneous deployment environment below GNOME."

In another note on the list, Schaller argued that, "My feeling was that you where extrapolating from your one missing feature that GNOME offered no configurable features."

Torvalds agreed. "Sure I was. No question about that. But I'm not exactly extrapolating from a single feature. It was just one _I_ happened to care about, but others care about other features, and looking at the bugzilla discussions, I notice that people there argue about removing *other* config options."

"For _me_ it was one missing feature," Torvalds continued. "But that's not what I use to extrapolate from. I use the *fact* that Gnome has in the past removed other features, and is *still* apparently talking about removing yet more config options from view."

"WHY?" Torvalds asked. "It's a disease, I tell you. The apparent inability to accept the fact that we're not all a uniform gray paste."

To this, Schaller responded: "Ok, so the 'standard' GUI tools of GNOME is what everyone who installs GNOME sees and gets, so the thinking has been that we should keep the default preferences and configuration tools without to many items in order to make navigating them quick and easy as the items which are there are things which are meant to be critical for people to be able to adjust."

"I think part of the problem why this has grown to such an issue for people who don't follow GNOME closely has been that maybe we have failed in GNOME to package and present the power user tools actually available in a good way," conceded Schaller.

That still doesn't answer Torvalds' concern about having control easily available for users. "This is why you want graphical tools (that are there by default, so that you don't have to know enough even to know to get them) to configure stuff even for 'experts.' Because I'm an expert Unix user, but that doesn't mean that I'm expert in some Gnome internal configuration issues. I know what I want, but that doesn't mean that I know how Gnome does it," said Torvalds.

Christopher Blizzard, a Red Hat software developer and one of the designers of the OLPC project's (One Laptop Per Child) Sugar interface, summed up the conflict in his note to the list.

"I was in a meeting the other day where we were discussing this very issue in the context of OLPC. In that meeting it was called 'the Ramp.' The problem is described as 'how do you keep something simple, but grow it to fit the level of experience of the user'," said Blizzard.

"In GNOME I think we've done a very good, and somewhat painful job, of creating something that's very simple and very usable for someone who sits down in front of the machine," Blizzard continued. "I say painful because we've had to remove a lot of things that people were very used to in order to get a base experience that's pretty good. But the thing that I think Linus is stumbling over is that canyon. How does he figure out how to get what he needs, which does exist in GNOME, without having to learn everything there is to know about GNOME?"

"If we're ever going to grow beyond our small community, I think that what GNOME has done is important" added Blizzard. "You have to have a very simple base to start with. ... Building a system that's simple and friendly and works well is where we start. But we do need to figure out how to grow with our users in an unobtrusive manner. I don't think that any of us have figured out how to do that, and you're paying the price for it."

What, as desktop Linux users, do you think about this matter? Would you rather have an easy-to-use universal interface, like GNOME, which makes customizing the system harder? Or, the more power-user stylings of KDE? Let us know in the talk-back thread listed below.

DEBIAN EDU proyecto llamado Skolelinux 3.0

Skolenlinux 3.0

Yo diria que es "algo" parecido al edubuntu, incluye soporte a las instituciones educacionales, estaria bien que enseñaran algo de eso en México

Skolelinux version 3.0 (codenamed Terra) is now available for free download, the project's Oslo, Norway-based team announced on July 22. The distribution supports educational institutions in over 50 countries and has become part of the Debian project, where it is known as "Debian Edu."

Skolelinux 3.0 is based on Debian 4.0 ("Etch"), making it compatible with the LSB 3.1 (Linux Standard Base) specification, according to the release announcement. It's based on a 2.6.18 kernel and a KDE 3.5.5 default desktop manager.

According to project spokesperson Anders Kringstad Hanssen, "Skolelinux now [provides] more than 80 applications selected for pedagogic uses, supporting more than 50 languages. Many new applications are introduced in addition to popular classic as GCompris, KDE-Edu, Iceweasel (unbranded version of Firefox) and OpenOffice.org."

Skolelinux offers "full support for networked thin clients, LowFat (diskless) clients, workstations, and laptops," Kringstad added.

The project's website touts the following Skoelinux features and capabilities:

• Customized for use within the educational sector
  
• Simple to administer and maintain.
  
• Enables pupils to get their own user name and manage their own files and access web services
  
• Includes OpenOffice.org office suite
  
• Available in numerous national languages
  
• Delivered and can run as a supported service from ISVs (independent software vendors) in many countries
  
• Runs on both new and old hardware; enables re-use of older workstations
  

Skolelinux installation and source code are both distributed in the form of a single DVD ISO file, which supports i386, PowerPC, and AMD64 architectures. Links for download the free DVD ISO (4.4GB) or four CD ISOs are available at the Debian Edu download page, http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download.

Documentation is only available in English at the moment, and has some rough edges that will be patched in the weeks ahead and included in an interim release that also supports more languages, the project said.

For further details on the project, read the Skolelinux 3.0 release announcement, http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2007/07/msg00538.html. A roadmap for the project's next milestone, convergence of http://www.linex.org/ (in Spanish) into Debian Edu, is available http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/LinEx2DebianEdu-Roadmap.

Leer archivos rar en ubuntu

Para poder descomprimir los archivos con extension .rar lo unico que debeis hacer es escribir estas dos lineas:


sudo apt-get install rar
sudo ln -fs /usr/bin/rar /usr/bin/unrar


luego inmediatamente podras ver tus archivos que no podias ya que ubuntu no se mete en lios, no todo es a pata como el logo

Firefox 2.0.0.5

Mozilla today released Firefox 2.0.0.5, the latest update to the group's flagship browser. The update patches eight security vulnerabilities, three of them "critical" and two "high," the group said.

Most existing Firefox 2 users will be alerted to the new version by the software update feature built into the browser. Firefox 2 users who "check for updates" manually (from the Help menu) will see a message saying "Firefox 2.0.0.5 -- It is strongly recommended that you upgrade Firefox as soon as possible."

The Mozilla Security Advisories web page lists eight patches, three of them critical (red) and two high (orange). The advisories are:

• MFSA 2007-25: XPCNativeWrapper pollution (moderate)
  
• MFSA 2007-24: Unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents (high)
  
• MFSA 2007-23: Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer (critical)
  
• MFSA 2007-22: File type confusion due to %00 in name (low)
  
• MFSA 2007-21: Privilege escalation using an event handler attached to an element not in the document (critical)
  
• MFSA 2007-20: Frame spoofing while window is loading (low)
  
• MFSA 2007-19: XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout (high)
  
• MFSA 2007-18: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (critical)
  

The previous release (v2.0.0.4; May 31, 2007), fixed five vulnerabilities, one critical.

The Firefox 2.0.0.5 Release Notes have more details about the new release.

Firefox 2.0.0.5 is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X in a wide variety of languages for free download, here. It's a 5.7 MB file and typically takes about 20 to 40 seconds to download on a broadband connection.

For those wishing to be on the cutting edge of the browser wars, a Firefox 3 alpha (Gran Paradiso) is available for testing purposes. You can grab that one here.

run vmware

Esta lista de comandos utilice en mi ubuntu edgy y funcionó, vmware funciona para virtualizar sistemas dentro de otros sistemas
Hice otro tanto com el Virtual box pero no jalo

sudo aptitude install make gcc-3.4 g++-3.4 linux-headers-`uname -r` qemu

sudo apt-get install wget

#Esto es para instalar Qemu si ya lo teneis no lo necesitas instalar

#Se baja VMware

http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmplayer/VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.tar.gz

tar xvzf VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.tar.gz

cd vmware-player-distrib

export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4
export CXX=/usr/bin/g++-3.4

#Se exportan las libreria

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

sudo mkdir -p /opt/vmware

sudo chmod 1777 /opt/vmware

mkdir /opt/vmware/WindowsXPPro

cd /opt/vmware/WindowsXPPro

qemu-img create -f vmdk WindowsXPPro.vmdk 6G Formating 'WindowsXPPro.vmdk', fmt=vmdk

#Ahora editamos el WindowsXPPro.vmx

gedit WindowsXPPro.vmx

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "WindowsXPPro.vmdk"
memsize = "192"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "WindowsXPPro.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileType = "file"
floppy0.fileName = "cdboot1.img"
floppy0.startConnected = "True"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
displayName = "Windows XP Pro"
guestOS = "winxppro"
nvram = "WindowsXPPro.nvram"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61 43-fd 73 ef 46 56 4c 23 7b"
uuid.bios = "56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61 43-fd 73 ef 46 56 4c 23 7b"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:4c:23:7b"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = "WindowsXPPro.vmss"
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

#Grabamos una imagen del disco la nombramos asi: WindowsXPPro.iso

#La colocamos en la carpeta: /opt/vmware/WindowsXPPro

#Ahora podemos abrir el VMware, buscamos el archivo:
WindowsXPPro.vmx y lo ejecutamos el pinche Güindos se instala y listo.

Luego talves podeis eliminar la imagen iso

software libre

Cuando somos unas personas que no conocemos nada de computadores vemos que hay empresas que muestran su producto a la venta; y eso es lo que esta de moda, luego uno compra para probar que tan bueno es ese productoque hemos adquirido y no quedamos algunas veces satisfechos, pensamos que nos han visto la cara, luego queremos ver que hay detras de todo aquello <> no sabemos que es, entonces queremos saber si hay alguna alternativa y la hay

http://alts.homelinux.net/
http://linuxappfinder.com/
http://www.cdlibre.org/
aqui podeis encontrar software para GÜINDOS

http://www.ubuntu.com/
Esta es la distro de linux que estoy usando y no se cuando voy a cambiar
pase de mandrake 10.2 luego mandriva 2006 y ahora ubuntu edgy ya la voy a cambiar por la festy fawn y luego por la 7.10 de octubre y la que le sigue todavia no se

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#How_to_list_mounted_devices
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_Mount_Windows_Partitions
guia de ubuntu dispositivos y particiones de discos

http://www.fsf.org/
free software fundation


http://www.desktoplinux.com/news
para que vean que nada es mentira

http://www.debian.org/
Para que vean que no les tengo mala fe los paquetes de ubuntu son de debian los famosos .deb los del ubuntu deben ser .ubu suena mas original