Posts Tagged ‘opensource’

A not so christmas-connected topid today as I’m going to write down a few lines on how-to install the open source statistical tool and relative developement libraries R on CentOS release 4 and 5.
Personally I’ve tried it successfully on CentOS 5.
CentOS today does not provide any build of this tool in it’s official and [...]

Just a quick post to spotlight this initiative: http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu
If you’re curious on why a renewal of such kind of petition is needed here in Europe – probably after having signed the first and seen it’s success – you can visit THIS LINK (in english) to know better what’s going on.
And oh, spread the word [...]

Today I’ve joined the 75613 (and counting) people petion to ask the national members of ISO to vote “NO” in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:

There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, [...]

Recently I’m studying some manuals to help the strategy decision of updating our 15 HP machines cluster to a more recent version of the operating system, splitting it in 2 functional branches.
One for GRID like calculation and one for a proprer application cluster.
Since the systems now runs something between Red Hat AS [...]