TIC4 - 09/01/19 - 14:17 Tropical Ice Cube Newsletter
Tropical Ice Cube Newsletter #4: Free, Khmer and Open. From: "Jean-Philippe 'Tropical Ice Cube' Monteiro" <jph@zenerves.net> To: pplug@googlegroups.com, barcampphnompenh@googlegroups.com Date: 09/01/19 - 14:17
This Week, the Mighty Penguins ventures into Closed-Source waters again, but you get it into Khmer!
TwitMe! Hook to http://twitter.com/tropicalicecube. Spread the newsletter! Send it to your friends, get them to register to the Phnom Penh Linux User Group (Yes, that is the PPLUG) at: http://groups.google.com/group/pplug
Visit http://tic.zenerves.net for a full list of available Open Source alternatives for your computing performance and pleasure + more info and help.
HOT NEWS:
A new Tropical Face is around: Get closer to the Penguins by making friend with Tropicalicecube Phnompenh on http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1154962303
Most of what advertised last week is available in Khmer, be it through the full install of openSUSE/KhmerOS Operating System, or as standalone versions for windows. See Latest Additions below for more.
These nice people at The Open Institute gave me 20 gorgeous-looking KhmerOS/openSUSE11 cd/dvd combo boxes last week - they are available for free, and Yes, I still have some! As usual, text me on 012 561 005 to grab yours.
UBUNTU is shipping boxed, official discs to the TIC! - It's acknowledged, I expect 10 of them anytime soon.
SHOWCASE: Distro Of The Week.
Sabayon 4: Work, work... and Leisure! Or is it the opposite? Sabayon is a Gentoo-based distribution. Read: Sabayon is based on something us mere mortal could never achieve to install, and even less to maintain. Sabayon in it's fourth stable incarnation makes it easy for you with an incredible level of polish, an astonishing wealth of boot up possibilities and may goodies. When you slip the Sabayon LiveDVD in, it will offer you to: - Boot in Live mode: - To install, with several windows managers to choose from; - To go straight into playing 2 different multiplayers shoot-them-up (Nexuiz and AssaultCube2, how's that about political correctedness); - And even to browse the web anonymously - no IP trace thanks to Anon.org, no hard disk cache thanks to LiveDVD mode. And that is not to mention GoogleEarth or SecondLife!
These features only should be enough to get you to... get seriously distracted from work! As usual, grab it from here at Tropical Central with a text message to 012 561 005.
LATEST Additions to the DISTROthèque Repository
FreeBSD 7.1 Official Stable release 2.1Gb Install DVD
Linux Specialised Distributions: NST - LiveCD with Network Analysis tools pfSense - 50megs BSD based firewall/gateway
OpenSource Software for M$: Firefox 3 - get rid of Internet Explorer! OpenOffice 3 - get rid of Word/Excell/etc! The Gimp 2.6 - get rid of Photoshop! Thunderbird 2 - get rid of outlook/outlook express VLC 0.9 - Well, VLC is better than anything else really.
And the Same in Khmer: [check http://www.khmeros.info for more] OpenOffice - full offoce suite Moyura, Email client Merkhala, Web browser + Unicode Typing Trainer for Windows and more.
Linux Distributions: Official KhmerOS release of openSUSE11 boxed CD and DVDs Slackware 12.2 i386 InstallDVD Sabayon 4.0
This Week recommended READINGS:
A New Hit in security infection on Windows machines! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7832652.stm
Europe's friendship with Penguins: Microsoft to face trial again http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/17/microsoft_ie_commission_law_breaker/ Tropical Ice Cube Newsletter #4: Free, Khmer and Open.
HOT NEWS:
A new Tropical Face is around: Get closer to the Penguins by making friend with Tropicalicecube Phnompenh on http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1154962303
Most of what advertised last week is available in Khmer, be it through the full install of openSUSE/KhmerOS Operating System, or as standalone versions for windows. See Latest Additions below for more.
These nice people at The Open Institute gave me 20 gorgeous-looking KhmerOS/openSUSE11 cd/dvd combo boxes last week - they are available for free, and Yes, I still have some! As usual, text me on 012 561 005 to grab yours.
UBUNTU is shipping boxed, official discs to the TIC! - It's acknowledged, I expect 10 of them anytime soon.
SHOWCASE: Distro Of The Week.
Sabayon 4: Work, work... and Leisure! Or is it the opposite? Sabayon is a Gentoo-based distribution. Read: Sabayon is based on something us mere mortal could never achieve to install, and even less to maintain. Sabayon in it's fourth stable incarnation makes it easy for you with an incredible level of polish, an astonishing wealth of boot up possibilities and may goodies. When you slip the Sabayon LiveDVD in, it will offer you to: - Boot in Live mode: - To install, with several windows managers to choose from; - To go straight into playing 2 different multiplayers shoot-them-up (Nexuiz and AssaultCube2, how's that about political correctedness); - And even to browse the web anonymously - no IP trace thanks to Anon.org, no hard disk cache thanks to LiveDVD mode. And that is not to mention GoogleEarth or SecondLife!
These features only should be enough to get you to... get seriously distracted from work! As usual, grab it from here at Tropical Central with a text message to 012 561 005.
LATEST Additions to the DISTROthèque Repository
FreeBSD 7.1 Official Stable release 2.1Gb Install DVD
Linux Specialised Distributions: NST - LiveCD with Network Analysis tools pfSense - 50megs BSD based firewall/gateway
And the Same in Khmer: [check http://www.khmeros.info for more] OpenOffice - full offoce suite Moyura, Email client Merkhala, Web browser + Unicode Typing Trainer for Windows and more.
Linux Distributions: Official KhmerOS release of openSUSE11 boxed CD and DVDs Slackware 12.2 i386 InstallDVD Sabayon 4.0
This Week recommended READINGS:
A New Hit in security infection on Windows machines! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7832652.stm
Europe's friendship with Penguins: Microsoft to face trial again http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/17/microsoft_ie_commission_law_breaker/
CONTRIBUTE!
T.I.C could benefit from your help: see http://tic.zenerves.net/faq.html#contribute to check how you can participate in this project and help spread Free Software further in Phnom Penh and Cambodia.
Sponsor!
Pacific Systems gave me a UNICODE Khmer keyboard! Thanks!
You too, Like PACIFIC SYSTEMS, can help. I am sure your company can find a way to see it's name valued in the Phnom Penh Open Source community. Share open source software, download them, advertise T.I.C - there are many ways, and I am sure I am talking to a quite creative audience here!
(http://www.pacific.com.kh - they have all kinds of good stuff that you can't find anywhere else)
NEXT WEEK:
Community Special - get help with Linux!
"Send a Text Message, Receive Linux for Free"
Getting your computer running Open Source, free software has never been so easy in Phnom Penh: Just send us a Text Message from your Mobile Phone, and get the Linux Distribution of your choice, for free!
Text me on 012 561 005 with either:
* Your request for Linux distro, with pick-up yourself at my office: I will reply with street
address and delay/time to pick up the disc;
or
* Your distro request with your street address and possible hours for delivery; cost is 1usd per
disc/dvd, Business Hours best.
This newsletter brought to you by
Jean-Philippe Monteiro
The Tropical Ice Cube
DISTROtheque Maintainer
twit: tropicalicecube
web: tropicalicecube.zenerves.net
mail: tic /AT\ zenerves.net
Face: Tropicalicecube Phnompenh
Mob: 012 561 005
--Slackware 12.2 / Enlightenment DR16--
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