Re: Russian TV Channel Built on Top of GNU/Linux

[Guest dont.pullout@yahoo.com]

On Sep 8, 8:12 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com> wrote:

> IBM and ZAO Medit Profi Team Up to Transform Russia's Channel 5

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> | Founded on the Linux operating system, Channel 5's solution includes IBM

> | WebSphere Portal Enable, IBM System Storage, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

> | Extended Edition, and IBM System x servers.

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> http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070907/0299109.html

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> Meanwhile, on the corrupted side of Earth:

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> BBC Iplayer "should be multi-platform"

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> | Many believe that using Microsoft software helps feed a Giant Vole currently

> | kept in a secure basement in the Seattle area. Once the Vole reaches critical

> | mass it could devour half the western world, many fear.

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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42205

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> Related:

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> Electronics firms plan Internet televisions

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> | The new televisions will use Linux operating systems instead of

> | Microsoft Windows, it added. That feature is aimed at cutting the time

> | needed to boot up and reducing the risk of virus infection.

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> http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Parody_of_Al_Gore_Film_tied_0803.ht...

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> TV Makers to Collaborate on Internet TV Standards

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> | The new sets reportedly will be based on the Linux operating system.

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> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/52614.html

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> | The Japanese consumer electronics companies aim to develop

> | broadband-enabled televisions that can download and display videos from

> | the internet wihtout the need for a separate set-top box or computer.

> |

> | They plan to establish a common standard for aspects of internet TV,

> | based on a Linux operating system.

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> http://informitv.com/articles/2006/08/05/internettvplans/

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> Second Linux-alliance formation in struggle for schools

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> | A competitor to the recently created OS Linux software developers' alliance

> | is to appear in the near future. St. Petersburg Company Linux Ink has

> | developed a project within which the domestic open-source community

> | participants are suggested to enter an alternative consortium. It is to forge

> | active PR-operations and close cooperation with educational institutions, the

> | organizers say. They also offer their own development methods for

> | Linux-products, which are to be used in Russian schools.

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> http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F08%2F31%2F264502

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> Linux-alliance sets free school software in Russia

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> | Russian Linux software developers have created an alliance to jointly

> | participate in tenders to supply schools with open source software. The total

> | number of specialist entering the alliance has exceeded the given number in

> | Mandriva and Ubuntu Canonical producer, all in all. In case of successful

> | pilot project implementation the open source software is to be installed in

> | every Russian school together with Microsoft and other propriety software.

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> http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F08%2F22%2F263432

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> Open source software gets a chance in Russia

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> | CNews found out a pilot open source software project was to be launched in

> | the educational institutions in Tomsk Region and Tatarstan. According to the

> | Ministry of Communication plans, in case of its successful implementation up

> | to the 2009 year end an alternative software package is to be installed in

> | all the Russian schools. The main domestic Linux distributors have got

> | interested in the pilot project.

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> http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F07%2F26%2F260436

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> Russian government to finance Linux version for schools

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> | Russian Ministry of Finance approved RUR 3 bln financing from state budget

> | for software on school computers.

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> http://webplanet.ru/english/2007/07/24/russian_soft_en.html

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> Experiment: first schools install Linux

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> | "If the results are positive, the committee will suggest installing

> | Linux in all schools", Igor Bazlov added.

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> http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/06/05/253453

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> Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare

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> | Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it

> | appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped

> | off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.

> |

> | [..]

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> | According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed

> | software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,

> | Ekho Moskvi reports.

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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460

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> Linux and Windows in Russian schools

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> | I just noticed this blog entry (in Russian) from an advanced Linux

> | user, where he offers free help to every teacher (or their boss)

> | who'd like to start teaching Linux, and gives a few links to

> | other such projects, such as "The winter Linux school for teachers"

> | (in Russian) organized by ALTLinux together with a few other

> | institutions. A few other projects do exist. Hopefully, such

> | projects, together with the "antipiracy" campaign will lead to

> | more Linux and open source in Russian schools.

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> http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/070130-080943.html

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> Russian Government Will Migrate to OpenSource

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> | Russia decided to follow after EU countries, where opensource

> | solutions are more spread then in Russia. Currently, some Russian

> | companies can offer their own Desktop Linux OS (the major companies

> | are ASPLinux, ALTLinux, Linux-Online and LinuxCenter).

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> http://danays.blogspot.com/2006/12/russian-government-will-migrate-to...

 

 

Seeing as the govt can barely keep the lights on 24x7 in parts of that

country, St Petersberg for one, this is quite an accomplishment.

Of course since the current administration seems to be moving back to

cold war days, Linux and open source is the perfect operating system

for the KGB.

 

What better way to spy on it's citizens than by embedding all kinds of

*wonderful* code into their Linux systems.

I find it interesting that FSU, China and North Korea seem so

interested in Linux.

I wonder why that is?

(actually I don't, but I'm trying to be positive).

Devon