Now that is fun! When you look at the KDE4 trunk statistics the Germanic minority language Low Saxon is more complete than the German translation/localisation of KDE. Back in 2004 I attended the Linux Information Days in my home town Wilhelmshaven as a speaker, where Heiko Evermann presented his project to translate KDE into low [...]
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KDE makes me feel so platt
Posted in Desktop Experience, National Operating System, tagged KDE4, lox saxon, nds, Partitschoon, plattdeutsch, translation on October 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ecuador approves ODF
Posted in National Operating System, standards, tagged odf, inen, iso/iec, 26300 on April 15 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ISO/IEC 26300 was approved by INEN as a national standard for Ecuador:
PNTE INEN-ISO/IEC 26300:2009 Tecnología de la información – Formato de documento abierto para aplicaciones de oficina (Open document) v1.0.”
Congratulations!
Kyrgystan and .ky
Posted in National Operating System, tagged .ky, domain, Kyrgystan, PTO on March 7 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Plans of the Kyrgystan Patent and Trademark Office to take over the .ky domain name registration process is discussed by Elena Skochilo. Currently the granting process is managed by a private company name asiainfo.ru.
More details on the Russian National Operating System
Posted in National Operating System, lxde, tagged lxde on February 15 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev – the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. At a key meeting with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA, he announced support for a Russian Fedora association and for Red [...]
National Operating System in Cuba?
Posted in National Operating System, tagged Cuba, development, Microsoft, security on February 12 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently also Cuba develops its own national operating system, Reuters reports.
The government views the use of Microsoft systems, developed by U.S.-based Microsoft Corp, as a potential threat because it says U.S. security agencies have access to Microsoft codes.
The remarkable aspect about the move is the domino effect. More an more nations develop their own [...]
Putin rejects Dell’s sales pitch
Posted in National Operating System, tagged Davos, Dell, Education, National Operating System, Putin, Russia on February 12 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Putin explains their educational project to get computers in schools and the quality of their programmers.
Dell: How can we as an IT sector help you broaden the economy as you move out of a crisis and take advantage of that great scientific talent that you have?
Putin: We are not invalids. We [...]
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