LINUX WORLD NEWS LINUX WORLD NEWS SPANISH DEBIAN DEVELOPERS MEET AGAIN RINGING IN THE NEW Not so long ago, sound working know- “How to became a Debian developer”, LINUX YEAR ledge of English was a serious installa- and the “Debian GNU/ kFreeBSD” work- We don’t know how many Linux user tion prerequisite for the Debian distri- shop offered new information for the groups world-wide threw parties on New bution. Ironically, this very distribution advanced audience. Year’s eve 2005, but Taiwan’s capital Tai- has now developed into the distribution The developers were not only given pei definitely saw one of the more note- with the stron- “food for thought”, but worthy. It was a new year count-down gest momentum also free accommoda- party, with Linux users using different in Spain, as a tion and meals, thanks clock applications to count down. base for local off- to the generous sponsors Now for your New Year’s resolution shoots such as and organizers at Hispa- (if you haven’t made one): find out how MoLinux, Gnu/ fuentes and Caja de many different clock apps exist in 2006 LinEx and Gua- Guadalajara, the Cas- (and tell us by the end of this year)! dalinex. tilla-La Mancha au- As a conse- thorities (the people be- quence DebConf- hind MoLinux) and His- YES TO COMMERCIALIZATION es, the meeting palinux, the association According to a survey of the Norwegian of Spanish of Spanish Linux user bi-monthly magazine “Linux magasi- Debian and groups, who also pro- net”, Norwegian Linux users are in favor Debian deriva- vided Wi-fi access and of the growing commercialization of the tive developers, computers with Debian Linux and open source sector. 70 percent went into its sec- preinstalled at the of the answers were positive, about 20 ond round at venue. percent were dissatisfied with this devel- Guadalajara, De- http:// www. debian. org. opment. cember 16-18, es/ debconf-es2/ The same survey inquired about the 2005. DebConf- (Spanish) Linux distributions people work with. es II featured talks about the new fea- http:// www. guadalinex. org/ (Spanish) Based on the response, Ubuntu (25 per- tures of upcoming Debian versions and http:// www. linex. org/ (Spanish) cent) seems to dominate Norwegian included a great bug-squashing party, http:// www. molinux. info/ (Spanish) Linux machines, followed by Suse and with many a patch uploaded to the http:// www. linux-magazine. com/ issue/ Debian with 20 percent each. Mandrake/ Debian package repository. New and 40/ Linux_World_News. pdf Mandriva, Red Hat/ Fedora and Gentoo would-be Debian contributors learned a http:// www. hispalinux. es/ (Spanish) share the remaining 35 percent. lot at workshops that covered topics http:// www. hispafuentes. com/ (Spanish) http:// www. linmag. no/ article/ such as “Debian’s infrastructure” or http:// cajaguadalajara. biz/ (Spanish) articleview/ 103/ 1/ 17/ 2006: THE YEAR OF DESKTOP LINUX IN TAIWAN The Taiwanese Research, Development pected to skyrocket in 2006, particularly Spurred in part by a highly publicized and Evaluation Commission (RDEC), the with the much more robust CJK input proposal in Massachusetts mandating department in charge of defining stan- and font display support provided by the OpenDocument compliance for govern- dards for governmental procurement of OpenPower Information Company (Red ment documents, Taiwan aims to extend hardware and software, emphatically an- Hat’s Taiwanese master the OpenDocument format from nounced at the end of year 2005 that they distributor) and the the government-to-government would be pushing the OASIS consor- Tainan County Educa- (G2G) stage to the government- tium’s Open Document Format for Office tional Network Center, to-business (G2B) stage in 2006. Applications (OpenDocument) as a the home of B2D GNU/ http:// www. rdec. gov. tw/ dp. global standard format for government Linux, whose latest desk- asp?mp=4 documents. top and server version, http:// www. openpower. com. tw/ Currently, Linux is mainly deployed in Jacana, was released products. php (Chinese) server markets, but desktop usage is ex- December 31, 2005. http:// b2d. tnc. edu. tw/ (Chinese) 12 ISSUE 64 MARCH 2006 WWW.LINUX - MAGAZINE.COM.