Eee PC Makes Its Debut in Israel

Bezeq, Israels largest telecommunications provider, will start supplying ASUS Eee PC’s, according to Refael Fogel at The Marker IT.
Bezeq will supply the PC’s exclusively until April, and the Eee’s will be provided with Windows XP.
In April the Eee will be available through other retailers and will be installed with Xandros.
[via Lior Kaplan]

CentOS.co.il

http://centos.co.il launched on Friday to help promote the CentOS Linux distro in Israel.
The site is in Hebrew, and backed by the http://linux-israel.net team.
They offer free support in the forums or paid support from the company.

Mandriva Israel is Officialy Launching

Mandriva Israel, although operating since 2007, will officially launch on February 28th 2008.
Lets hope this with improve the Linux efforts in Israeli Schools.

Want to develop a new Open Source project?

Hi,
Zeev contacted me to help spread the word for a project he is looking to sponsor called “gKiosk”. gKiosk is intended to be a Gnome Photo Kiosk.
Although this is a product with a small niche, any new Open Source project is a good thing (in my opinion).
If you want to see the details and/or bid […]

Linux For Every Child

A new project was announced in Israel, “Linux For Every Child” or “LLI” (LLI is an abbreviation of the Hebrew name).
As part of the project, volunteers will be providing working computers installed with Linux to schools, clubs, hospitals, boarding schools and other organizations where computing services can be supplied to children.
Read more (in Hebrew).

The Israeli 2007 Welcome to Linux Series

The Israeli open source community is proud to announce the beginning of the series of presentations for Linux beginners. The lectures will cover basic topics in Linux in order to provide Linux home-use beginners with the necessary background. This year the series will take place in four centers: the Haifa Linux Club at the […]

Novell has decided to close the Israeli branch

Novell is making some structural changes, including closing branches (Israel, Belgium, Turkey, and more).
Read more at Globes

Open Source Links for 03-Sep-2007

Q&A: Jonathan Schwartz on Sun’s open-source business strategy - Matt Asay, CNet
Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth on Productivity and Linux - Lifehacker
HP launches RedHat Linux desktop PC - apcmag.com
Project Darkstar has gone open source! - Chris Melissinos, Sun

Another step towards mass adoption of Linux

I was very happy to read the slashdot conversation on the upcoming Ubuntu feature of failsafe mode:
“It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a […]

An easy start to Linux

I think that one of the least enjoyable parts of starting to use Linux is finding the applications you are used to using on Windows / Mac.
So, it is always nice when someone compiles a list (and there are quite a few of them) of useful Open Source apps for Linux.
The latest one I encountered […]

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