MobaLiveCD es una herramienta desarrollada por Mobatek, con la cual se
puede ejecutar una distro GNU/Linux desde Windows. MobaLiveCD utiliza
el sistema de virtualización de Qemu y cuenta con 2 combinaciones de
teclas. Ctrl+Alt para capturar el mouse y Ctrl+Alt+F para cambiar a
pantalla completa.
La herramienta es portable, o sea, no necesita instalación, puede
ejecutar una distro en formato ISO como en un CD y pesa solo 1.5 Mb.
Se que algunos puristas, de linux, no compartiran la idea de que se
anuncie este tipo de programas, pero si lo miramos desde la
perspectiva de que a un usuario de windows, le facilita probar linux,
lo cierto es que lo considero razonablemente correcto.
MobaLiveCD-->
http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/
I ¿Qué es Linuxmil?
• Un proyecto surgido de la Comunidad del Software Libre, que impulsa
el desarrollo de un Sistema Operativo propio y el empleo de
herramientas GNU, que garantice: Seguridad, Independencia Tecnológica,
e Interoperabilidad en la Conducción.
http://www.somoslibres.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3094
Liberan un Sistema Web de Apoyo a la Docencia, el conocido SWAD, bajo
GPL
El Sistema Web de Apoyo a la Docencia, el conocido SWAD de Antonio
Cañas, profesor del Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de
Computadores y subdirector del CEVUG, ha sido liberado con una
licencia Affero GPL.
SWAD por tanto se suma a otros sistemas libres de gestión del
aprendizaje, y te lo puedes descargar directamente de aquí, está
escrito en C y consiste en un único ejecutable que funciona como un
CGI, lo que permite generar la página en muy pocos milisegundos. Con
la liberación será mucho más fácil que todas las universidades que lo
usan, y los propios usuarios de la UGR, puedan añadirle nuevas
características o adaptarlo a sus circunstancias particulares;
asimismo, también será más fácil usarlo en proyectos de fin de carrera
u otros proyectos de investigación.
Junto con SWAD, que representa un esfuerzo de más de una década de
programación y refinamiento, se han liberado una serie de módulos
usados habitualmente desde él.
Más información: http://swad.ugr.es/
ver tb moodle
tag Distro para invidentes Tiflolinux.org distro ciegos distro
invidentes minusvalidos disminuidos creación de grupo de ayuda para
colectivos necesitados
Adriane Knoppix, proyecto que se basa en la creación de una
distribución Linux orientada a las personas ciegas o con problemas de
visión. Adriane Knoppix es el nombre de detrás de "Adriane Knopper",
la esposa de Klaus Knopper, el desarrollador de Knoppix. Adriane
tiene
impedimentos visuales, y ha estado asistiendo a Klaus en el
desarrollo
del software.
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educacional
Quantian es un CD tipo Knoppix dirigido hacia la ciencia, basado en
clusterKnoppix.
GIS Knoppix1 es una distribución basada en Knoppix centrada en el
software GIS. Entre otras herramientas GIS incluye GRASS, MapServer,
PostgreSQL, MySQL, QGIS, JUMP y MapLab
Knoppix STD (security tools distribution) es una distribución a
medida
de Knoppix que se centra en las herramientas de seguridad
informática.
Incluye herramientas licenciadas con GPL en las siguientes
categorías : autenticación, craqueo de contraseña, cifrado, forense,
firewall, tarro de miel, detección de intrusión, utilidad de red,
prueba de penetración, Servidores, Packet sniffer y ensamblador,
asentamiento de seguridad y herramientas inalámbricas.
Desde que Apple cambiara la forma en que los usuarios se comunican con
sus móviles y tras la aparición de Android, el sistema operativo para
móviles de Google, Nokia persigue una plataforma de aplicaciones
única, para continuar en la brecha tecnológica y aprovechar su
situación privilegiada en el mercado de móviles, muy por delante de
cualquiera de sus rivales en cuanto a número de unidades.
MeeGo busca convertirse en una plataforma de aplicaciones y servicios
que consiga reunir un gran catálogo en poco tiempo y competir así con
la App Store y el Android Market. Así, desde su inicio, contará con
las comunidades existentes de Maemo y Moblin, que ya han desarrollado
numerosas aplicaciones. Así, usando MeeGo en el desarrollo de
aplicaciones, significa que el programador solo tendrá que desarrollar
las aplicaciones una vez y desplegarlas en un gran abanico de
productos, incluso en plataformas Symbian.
Más en Público.es.
http://www.linuxav.net/index.php/2010/02/intel-y-nokia-y-viceversa/
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eBox Technologies ha anunciado el lanzamiento de eBox Platform 1.4 ,
una distribución para servidores basada en Ubuntu, que ofrece una
administración fácil y eficiente de la red informática para las
pequeñas y medianas empresas. eBox Platform puede ser una pasarela de
red, un gestor de amenazas unificado (UTM), un servidor de oficina, un
administrador de infraestructuras, un servidor de comunicaciones
unificado o una combinación de todos ellos. Todos los servicios están
basados en la misma tecnología y están completamente integrados.
Como parte de las nuevas características y mejoras que incorpora, eBox
Platform 1.4 ofrece funciones SaaS, tales como copia de seguridad
remota y llamadas de bajo costo vía VoIP a teléfonos móviles y líneas
terrestres. Dos de las nuevas características más importantes en la
nueva versión son el soporte para servidores LDAP maestro-esclavo y
sincronización con el Active Directory de Microsoft. Además , las
nuevas características incluyen un nuevo módulo de correo web, soporte
de PPPoE, soporte Multi-WAN para pasarelas configuradas sobre DHCP y
PPPoE , nueva versión de Samba (3.4.5), actualizaciones de DNS
dinámico a través de DHCP y un nuevo módulo RADIUS .
Tienes más detalles del lanzamiento de la nueva versión en el
Comunicado de prensa (en inglés). Para ver las características
técnicas, consulta el anuncio de la publicación de eBox Platform 1.4 y
el registro de cambios de la versión 1.2 a la 1.4 (en inglés).
Descargar: ebox_installer-1.4.iso (600 MB, MD5).
Via: Distribution Release: eBox Platform 1.4 - DistroWatch.
PD: Entrada publicada originalmente en mi blog, eBox Platform 1.4:
Servidor Linux para la PYME
http://softlibre.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=10/02/04/2348220&from=rss
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http://www.loculinux.org/
distro para locutorios
LocuLinux1.0es una distribución de Linux basada en Ubuntu 9.10 es
decir la Karmic Koala, que se ha desarrollado para cubrir un mercado
poco explotado de Linux, que son los locutorios o también conocidos
como cibercafés.
El problema actual de este tipo de establecimientos es que debido a la
inversión inicial en la compra de ordenadores debe sumarse la licencia
del software a instalarse, es decir que lo que se instala tiene que
ser totalmente legal ya que es un servicio que se ofrece al público en
general.
El coste de la licencia de los sistemas operativos más utilizados
eleva el coste de la compra de los ordenadores y ocasiona que este
tipo de software se instale de manera no legal.
Ahí es donde entra LOCULINUX, al ser una distribución de Linux, esta
carece de coste en la licencia por ordenador o por número total de
usuarios, ya que está basada en la licencia GNU que en resumidas
cuentas nos dice que podemos distribuir libremente el software o
incluso modificarlo a nuestro criterio.
LOCULINUX posee todas las aplicaciones necesarias para poder
instalarse en este tipo de establecimientos, desde Programas de
Ofimática (Procesador de textos, Hojas de Cálculo, Presentaciones),
Mensajería instantánea, etc.
Esta es la primera versión de LOCULINUX, su instalación es muy
sencilla, puede ejecutarse directamente desde un DVD LIVE o instalarse
al disco duro del ordenador.
Posee dos entornos de ejecución para programas desarrollados en la
plataforma Win Os, el Wine y el PlayOnLinux, este último permite
ejecutar la mayoría de los juegos comerciales o demos de estos
directamente desde nuestro LOCULINUX.
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The Linux ecosystem is a complex entity. On one hand everyone gets
along and benefits from work done by others, while on the other
there’s often animosity and conflict between distributions and their
communities (remember when Ubuntu came along?).
People often complain that there is simply too much choice in the
Linux world and that we’d all be better off if there was just one, or
two. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
The multitude of Linux distributions exists for a reason. They exist
because not one single distribution can satisfy the desires of every
user on the planet. Different people like different ways of doing
things. Not only that, the distribution that one might want to use for
a server won’t necessarily suit a laptop. So thankfully there are
thousands of distros to choose from.
In the Beginning
Of course it wasn’t always that way. GNU had a beginning, Linux had a
beginning and so also the first distribution had a beginning.
That’s right, the first official distribution was called MCC Interim,
back in February of 1992. It was the first distribution able to be
installed on a computer, shipping the Linux kernel with a GNU user-
land. Within that same year, a new (and popular at the time)
distribution was created, called Softlanding Linux System (known
simply as SLS), which in turn spawned Slackware, created by Patrick
Volkerding. To this day, Slackware remains the oldest surviving Linux
distribution.
By the time Slackware came onto the scene, there were already half a
dozen Linux distributions. A few months later however, on August 16th
1993, one of the most important was about to emerge all on its own,
which today takes the crown for the oldest surviving independently
developed Linux distribution. Meet Debian. Debian was not a fork of
any previous work, but an independent project in its own right,
created by Ian Murdock. Entirely community driven, Debian remains the
largest non-commercial distributor of Linux.
Almost one year after the birth of Debian, in 1994 the third and final
member of the most influential distributions arrived on the scene, Red
Hat Linux. This distribution was originally created by Marc Ewing but
shortly thereafter merged with Bob Young’s company, ACC Corporation,
creating Red Hat Software. From the very beginning, Red Hat Linux was
designed with the corporate world in mind. It was and is a commercial
implementation of a Linux distribution, built upon free software.
Begetting
Together, these three distributions are the pillars of Linux, the
giants. They have each lead the way, creating technologies and
methodologies which we take for granted every day. They have forged
the path to make Linux distributions what they are today.
Not only are they the three oldest surviving, they have each in turn
spawned an entire range of operating systems. Certainly there have
been other important independent distributions along the way such as
Arch, Crux, Gentoo (from Enoch), Linux From Scratch, Puppy, ROCK, Tiny
Core, Yoper and a great number of others. However, the following image
of Lundqvist and Rodic’s GNU/Linux distro timeline illustrates just
how influential these three distros have been.
According to DistroWatch, sixty-six distributions have been created
from Slackware. Red Hat Linux has spawned around forty directly (with
another eighty or so coming from Fedora), while grand daddy Debian
makes it two hundred and fifty! At the end of the day, the majority of
Linux distributions which exist today are at some point a derivative
of one of these three.
These three distributions really couldn’t get much more different. Of
course the core is the same in each; a Linux kernel, GNU user-land as
well as various desktops and applications. Aside from the required
similarities, how do these distributions differ? As you’ll see, each
one encompasses a unique perspective, which shows just how important
diversity is!
Slackware - The Dictatorship
In many ways, Slackware was and is a one man show. Patrick Volkerding
created the distribution and he still controls it today. Certainly, he
has a fantastic team surrounding him and a dedicated community behind
him, but he is the one who calls the shots.
The distribution itself revolves around simplicity and tries to remain
as Unix-like as possible. It does not heavily patch its packages,
rather shipping products which resemble upstream as closely as
possible. Slackware leaves the user in charge and gets out of the way.
It traditionally doesn’t make heavy use of a package manager and while
it can install, upgrade and remove packages, it does not track or
manage dependencies. This task falls to the system administrator (or
user), and is one of the most striking differences between Slackware
and the other two.
For these reasons, it is often considered a “harder to use”
distribution, but fans of the distribution see these as necessary
tools of power and flexibility. Nevertheless, Slackware is well
regarded among the community and very stable.
Recently it gained support for both 64bit and ARM architectures, but
prior to this was heavily focused on 32bit only. It only supports one
major desktop environment, KDE, although others such as GNOME are
supported by the community.
While many other newer distributions are adding additional layers of
complexity to make things easier, Slackware is staying true to its
UNIX roots, offering a simple yet powerful, highly configurable
system. For more insight into Slackware, take a look at our interview
with developer Eric Hameleers.
Debian - The Proud Community
Debian has a long, proud history. It is comprised of a worldwide
community of volunteers, including over one thousand developers all
working together to create the best possible operating system from
free software. Debian is unique in that it is ruled by its
constitution, social contract, free software guidelines and policy
documents. As such, the structure of the organization is very
official, with an elected leader, secretary and technical team.
Leadership elections are held every year.
Unlike Slackware, the Debian leader does not have absolute power. In
fact by way of a general resolution, developers are able to reverse
decisions, remove the leader and even make changes to the
constitution. Developers may also vote on important issues affecting
the project (such as whether to include binary firmware).
Debian revolves around a fully blown package management system,
comprising several important components. This system not only performs
expected tasks such as installing and removing packages, it also
automatically handles dependencies. This was a core component of
Debian very early on, setting it apart from all other distributions in
its time. Debian uses the famous .deb package format as opposed to the
plain tarballs of Slackware and RPMs of Red Hat. In many respects,
package management is key to Debian. The project has strict guidelines
on developing software, and finely tracks packages to ensure a
consistent system state over upgrades. The utmost importance is put on
ensuring packages are built and work correctly.
All of Debian’s releases are named after characters from the Pixar
film, Toy Story. Debian is known for the high quality of their
releases, which are often delayed. The project maintains three main
branches, stable, testing and unstable (called Sid). Although the
official desktop is GNOME, the project supports just about every
desktop and window manager in existence. This is another stark
contrast to Slackware, which only officially supports KDE.
Also unlike Slackware (which until recently only supported a single
architecture), Debian supports eleven different architectures with
another five on the way. It also comes with over 25,000 packages,
ready to be installed via their package management system. Due to its
reliable nature and wide support for numerous architectures, Debian is
widely used on desktops, servers and embedded systems.
When you consider the scale of what the Debian project achieves, it is
truly remarkable. This solid foundation and structure has contributed
greatly to Debian’s success and made it an excellent choice for
derived distributions such as Ubuntu.
Red Hat - The Commercial Presence
From the get-go, Red Hat Linux has been about commercialization of
Linux. To this end, it has been a great success, selling subscriptions
for support, training and integration services. A majority of its
popularity owes to the fact that it is widely used as the supported
Linux distribution of choice in a corporate environment. There are
hundreds of Red Hat Linux courses available and for the longest time
“Linux” was often synonymous with “Red Hat.”
It’s important to make the distinction between Red Hat’s official
commercial Linux offering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and others
such as Fedora. RHEL is only available in binary form when purchased
from Red Hat, unlike our two other distributions. The entire source
code for the operating system however, is entirely free and from this
numerous other distributions have sprung (such as CentOS).
The majority of the development work on RHEL is done by Red Hat
employees. Unlike Slackware and Debian, this distribution’s
development is primarily founded in the Red Hat sponsored community
distribution, Fedora. Although a stable and exciting distribution in
its own right, Fedora is essentially the testing ground for new
technology which will find its way into Red Hat’s commercial
offerings.
Unlike Debian, Red Hat gained a comprehensive package management
system rather late in the game. At its core however, it revolves
around packages in the RPM format, which are handled by various low
level tools. Today, installing packages on Red Hat is as painless as
it is on Debian, with support for dependency tracking and many fancy
features to ensure a consistent state.
Red Hat is the leading contributor to both the Linux kernel and X.Org.
It is also responsible for many other great pieces of software which
we take for granted, such as D-Bus, HAL, Policykit, NetworkManager,
PulseAudio (cough cough), Liberation Fonts, Palimpsest and really far
too many to mention.
Red Hat is a great advocate for free software and have released a
Patent Policy which they use to the benefit of free software. Their
business model has been a huge success and is often used as a prime
example of the ability to make money from free software.
Concluding
Perhaps you never realized just how unique the history of Linux
distributions is, or how all of these distributions came about.
Hopefully this has provided at least some insight into our rich
heritage. Whether it is a package management system, modern
applications, culture or philosophies, the existence of these distros
has been invaluable in shaping the Linux environment as we know it
today. Each one of them continues to play a very important role in the
continued success of our platform of choice.
Despite their sizable differences, these giants are more popular today
as they ever have been. It’s also refreshing to know that even though
there are hundreds of active distros available, none has come along
yet which has been able to knock any of these three from their place.
It’s obvious that these three distros still have a lot to offer, even
with their differences. In fact, perhaps it’s because of their
differences that they remain so strong. There’s no such thing as one
size fits all in the computer world and we should be celebrating the
differences that exist, along with the choice and freedom that brings.
Thanks to these three distributions, we have a rich culture and
history to build upon for years to come.
Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes. We stand on shoulders of giants.
Christopher Smart has been using Linux since 1999. In 2005 he created
Kororaa Linux, which delivered the world's first Live CD showcasing 3D
desktop effects. He also founded the MakeTheMove website, which
introduces users to free software and encourages them to switch. In
his spare time he enjoys writing articles on free software.
AstroGarrobo, LiveCD de astronomía
24 de Enero de 2010 por Klomiz
AstroGarrobo es una de esas distros temáticas que ponen todo su empeño
en ofrecer un conjunto de herramientas concretas para una afición o
tema en particular. Esta está basada en Open SUSE y su temática es la
astronomía.
El proyecto surge en Nicaragua, y se crea por la necesidad de
compartir conocimientos con los aficionados al tema.
Cuando daban charlas sobre astronomía y enseñaban el software que
usaban, mucha gente les pedía copias, pero al ser software privativo
no podían proporcionárselas. ¿Solución? Buscar alternativas con
software libre. ¿Las encontraron? Vaya que sí. Hasta el punto de crear
una distro exclusiva de Astronomía.
El LiveCD se compone básicamente de:
* Un disco Live CD: Insertando el CD en la unidad lectora y
arrancando la computadora, podrán cargar el software y ejecutar las
aplicaciones sin necesidad de instalar nada.
* Software Simulador: Celestia, KStars, Stellarium y Where Is M13?
* Conectividad a Internet: Navegador Firefox, clientes FTP y otras
herramientas, en el caso que el usuario decida instalar la aplicación
en su computadora.
* Enlaces a varios sitios Web: ANASA, LIADA, Astronomers Without
Borders, Sidewalk Astronomers, Space Tweep Society, La Foto Diaria de
la Luna, AstroGarrobo…
* Capacidad de instalación en la computadora, si el usuario lo
desea.
* Documentación para la utilización de los programas, así como
material que permita tener un conocimiento básico del cielo.
Me parece una idea fenomenal, y a los aficionados a las estrellas les
va a parecer mejor aún. No hay nada como tener conocmientos e ideas
sobre algo y tener la libertad plena y absoluta de compartirlos con
quien quieras.
http://www.pillateunlinux.com/pillateunlinux/astrogarrobo-livecd-de-astronomia/#more-7543