There are now Pidgin 2.5.3 packages available in the Intrepid series of the Kiwi Linux PPA . You can pick the packages manually, aware that Pidgin is split in quite a few debs, or enable the archive. Only do the latter if you are also fine with upgrading to Open Office 3.0 since that is in there too.
The PPA is still unsigned. If you want the signed mirror at kiwilinux.org install this deb which will take care of adding the Kiwi and Medibuntu repos with their GPG keys into APT.
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* Adi s-a întors de la Ubuntu Developer Summit organizat la Googleplex și ne-a povestit la o întâlnire cum a fost.
Mmm, that's all folks! Vă urez activități mai multe și mai vizibile în 2009, care va fi evident, 'the year of the Linux desktop' ;)2View comments
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Acesta e primul post dintr-o serie care va cuprinde cele mai semnificative evenimente din țară legate de promovarea softului liber. Dacă aveți știri trimiteți-le mie și vor apărea în postarea următoare. Criteriile de selecție sunt ca informația să fie legată direct de FOSS local, nouă, și să pară utilă la mai mult de patru persoane.
* Alex Eftimie relatează despre prezentările celor de la Fundația Mozilla în liceele din țară, în particular cea co-organizată de ROSEdu și Ceata (un fel de Cosa Nostra din Regie)
* A fost lansată versiunea 8.12 a distribuției bazate pe Ubuntu și dezvoltate local, Kiwi Linux.
* A fost lansat saitul comunității locale de utilizatori openSUSE si SuSE Linux
* Au avut loc întâlnirile pe IRC pe luna decembrie din cadrul serilor deschise Ubuntu1View comments
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The first Kiwi Linux edition based on Ubuntu 8.10 is ready. The most significant changes from Ubuntu and earlier Kiwi Linux releases is the inclusion of OpenOffice 3 with up-to-date Romanian translations done using Narro and the Wubi installer on the CD. Apart from this, as usual, it has restricted media support and the Medibuntu repos enabled, firmware for the annoying Speedtouch 330 ADSL modem, a graphical tool for restoring a lost GRUB menu, the extended Compiz settings UI, and some more bits and pieces.
You can read the full release notes here.
Download mirros listed here:
http://kiwilinux.org/en/download.html
I'd like to thank those members of the Romanian and Hungarian Ubuntu teams who helped test the images and especially wubi in the past few days. And thanks to Alin for finding the puzzling bug in my wubi build (even if you only provide an x86 image, you need an amd64 entry in wubi) . Also, I am impressed by mingw32 and its ability to cross-build Windows binaries on Linux.1View comments
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I know that Lazyweb won't be reading this because just like Santa it is simulated by people, but I don't mind much as long as I get an answer.
Do you have experience in building a mostly static - that is not a blog - WordPress site in at least two languages? I'd like to get rid of the three-lingual static HTML on the Kiwi Linux site and use WP but I am not sure which of the many multilingual plugins for it is the most mature and easiest to install and maintain. The site should have a similar URL structure and layout with only the language code difference in the URL, and all content is written manually, so it is not the automatic translation plugins that I am after.
Any examples of existing multilingual WP sites which are not a hassle to maintain are fine too.
I'd like it to be structured more or less like the current site, but easier to modify.
thanks3View comments
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For software
Having used Vim for over 8 years, and it being the only application that I stuck to while changing distributions, window managers, desktop environments, browsers, mail clients and other bits, it was high time I 'bought a license' for it. The money actually goes to a children center in Uganda.
Assignment: come up with a parallel involving emacs and money going into Nigeria.Then look up both countries on the map if you do not already know where they are.
I have never directly payed for software before: when using Windows many years ago, it was (and to a large extent it still is today) normal for home users in Romania to just pirate it along with any other app they needed. I guess I have at least partially payed that back when purchasing a laptop with Windows ME preinstalled and purging it within a day and by having a percentage of my taxes continually being spent by our institutions on buying their software.
For content
Wikipedia is the only site I'd really miss if the Internet went the way of the parrot, so I felt that in this case too a donation could only begin to express my appreciation for the wasted tim^W^W value I got out of it during the years.
I have previously bought PDF or paper books after reading free online versions of them (sometimes earlier editions only), but that is different, you actually buy something new in that case.1View comments
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Until now, since 7.04, a new Kiwi Linux was released within days of a major Ubuntu launch, slightly deriving the original image for an even easier experience for newbies, Windows refugees and Romanian and Hungarian speakers.
With 8.10 however I broke this habit for a few reasons. I had much less free time at the end of October, Ubuntu came out very late in the month leaving very few days for testing, releasing and still being able to call it 8.10 without cheating, and not least, the Ibex seemed to have quite a few hardware support regressions on the computers I use.
So the next release will be 8.12, due in the first half of December.
It will include among others 8.10 updates, wubi that actually installs Kiwi and not Ubuntu, and OpenOffice 3.0.
The archives already have OO 3 (copied from scribblers PPA and with updated Romanian translations) and as another novelty the Jaunty archive is enabled long before release, so it does not break Kiwi users' setups who will wish to test the Ubuntu development branch.0Add a comment
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While Pidgin differs from most other projects in its pick of revision control tool (Monotone, and probably a good choice at the time they switched last year IIRC) it's not this choice in itself that makes it the hardest project to start 'following' from what I've seen so far.
Regardless of the tool and project, most initial checkouts look something like this
$VCS $GETCMD [$OPTIONS] $URL
and you get a directory with the source code ready to study and build.
Not for Pidgin.
There's a page that describes the method, including the script you run, and a link to the 210Mb tarball of the repo you download first in order to not tax the servers with getting all the history via Monotone itself.
Fortunately there's a mirror of this on github. Unfortunately it's not regularly updated.
I know the Pidgin developers are busy and probably grown used to Monotone but I still hope they will just switch to git sooner rather than later.
I suspect Open Office is even more annoying to get started on, but OO is a different category of project anyway.9View comments
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Stephen, while Connecticut failed at the specific aspect of democracy you mention, it sure beat California at common sense, decency and tolerance. You have just cheered for an unfortunate manifestation of a weakness of democracy, namely the tyranny of the majority.
By this logic, if 80% of the electorate voted for kicking the other 20% in the nuts we should be happy that democratic values are upheld. So I am inclined to believe that your and others' problem is not that the Connecticut decision was made by 8 judges, but rather the decision itself.
I have read plenty of argumented pro gay-marriage posts in the blogospehere, but nothing similar from the opposing side. Stephen or anyone care to write one up and explain what are the benefits in this case of making other people feel miserable :) ? I am truly interested in plausible arguments convincingly written up in one's own words and not just in links to websites.
thank you18View comments
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Ar fi foarte convenabil să existe câteva şabloane de documente pentru OpenOffice Writer, specifice pentru România. Tipare pentru cereri, chitanţe, facturi, documente standard ce se trimit prin şcoli şi ministere. Un astfel de set de documente puse în domeniul public, afişate pe situl ro.openoffice.org şi împachetate pentru distribuţii Linux ar reprezenta un argument în plus pentru OO, să nu trebuiască scrise de la zero în cazul utilizatorilor noi.
Deci cei care au aşa ceva sunt rugaţi frumos să le pună undeva online şi să lase un comentariu, să vedem cum le putem aduna şi organiza. Nu trebuie să fii programator să ajuţi la îmbunătăţirea şi răspândirea softului liber :)1View comments
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