The ODF Alliance today greeted with scepticism Microsoft’s announcement of its intention to include support for the OpenDocument Format in the first half of 2009. “The proof will be whether and when Microsoft’s promised support for ODF is on par with its support for its own format. Governments will be looking for actual results, not promises in press releases,” said Marino Marcich, managing director of the ODF Alliance.

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What is rdesktop?

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0.

Key changes:

• Fix for potential vulnerability against compromised/malicious
• servers (reported by iDefense)
• Fix for crash with recent versions of X.Org
• Fix for connection to Windows 2008 Server
• ALSA driver added
• Sound drivers can now be selected at runtime
• Smartcard support (Alexi Volkov <alexi@my…>)
• Send physical mouse buttons rather than logical ones

Where I can get rdesktop?

rdesktop available here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz?download

The New York Stock Exchange and its European subsidiary exchanges are running their trading systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat announced Wednesday, as it unveiled a new marquee customer.

Linux has been known to be in use at several New York financial services firms, but few have stepped up to the podium to testify on the value of their implementations. As a result of mergers and acquisitions, the New York Stock Exchange has migrated over the last few years fromHP (NYSE: HPQ)-UX to IBM (NYSE: IBM) AIX to Sun Solaris to Linux. NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007. Unlike some trading companies that suggest Linux is running their secondary systems, Rubinow emphasized that Linux is running the NYSE’s mission-critical trading systems.
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PyQt v4.4 has been released. This version fully supports Qt v4.4.0.

• Added support for Qt v4.4.0 including the new QtHelp, QtWebKit, QtXmlPatterns and phonon modules.
• Added support for QMetaObject.invokeMethod(), Q_ARG() and Q_RETURN_ARG().
• Added support for QObject.staticMetaObject.
• Added support for QScriptEngine.newFunction().
• The pyqtSignature() decorator now supports the specification of the types of return values.
• Added support for slots that return values.
• Any Python object can now be wrapped as a QVariant.
• pyqtProperty() now supports DESIGNABLE, SCRIPTABLE, STORED and USER (based on a patch from Ulrich Berning).
• Added __repr__ support to QByteArray, QChar, QDate, QDateTime, QLatin1Char, QLatin1String, QLine, QLineF, QPoint, QPointF, QRect, QRectF, QRegExp, QSize, QSizeF, QString, QTime, QUrl and QUuid (based on a patch from Giovanni Bajo).
• Added the –pyqt3-wrapper argument to pyuic4 to generate a PyQt3 style wrapper (from a patch from Ulrich Berning).
• Added the musicplayer.py and capabilities.py Phonon examples.
• Added the diagramscene.py example from Rajev Sebastian.
• Added the systray.py example from Daniel Harding.
• Added the Qt Designer multi-page widget, PyDateEdit and PyDateTimeEdit plugin examples from Ulrich Berning.

Mark Shuttleworth, head of Canonical and founder of the Ubuntu project, has called on other Linux developers to synchronize releases of new versions of their distros.

He also pledged to deliver the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu, version 10.4, in April 2010 - unless, of course, Red Hat, Novell and Debian decide to co-operate on a synchronized release at a different time.
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Authorities Standardization in Brazil, South Africa and Croatia approve ODF as the national standard. More info you can find:

Brazil: http://homembit.com/2008/04/odf-is-now-a-brazilian-standard-nbr-isoiec-26300.html
South Africa: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365
Croatia: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7563/469

Ubuntu is a great server and desktop distribution for the GNU/Linux® operating system, but did you know that it’s also ideal for handheld and mobile embedded devices? Ubuntu’s latest release, Gutsy Gibbon, now includes support for the embedded and mobile spaces with the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded (UME) project. Get to know the UME project, and find out how to get started.

In this tutorial

Introduction to the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded (UME) project, its architecture, and its use
How to install and test the Hildon desktop
How to build a development environment for a mobile device
Other mobile platforms

Please read tutorial on the developerWorks site.

Yesterday Mark Shuttleworth wrote about next Ubuntu LTS release. The next LTS release of Ubuntu will be 10.04 LTS, in April 2010. Please read more information in the Mark’s blog.

What is Gambas?

Gambas  is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™ (but it is NOT  a clone !). Read the introduction for more information.

10th May has reached a new version of Gambas. Changelog of this version you can read here.

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My name is Alex. I work in IBM in Lotus Service Department. I created this blog for the sharing my experience in Ubuntu and for writing news about Ubuntu/Linux. I shall be very glad to see you in the readers of my blog.

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