Free software

On the line of my latest post about Linagora, a European data researcher recently published the results of a study concluding in that the European Community is saving 450 billion euros per year thanks to Open Source software. In the same orientation, the APRIL (French Association for digital freedom) published a study reporting the substantial savings of the French Government thanks to Open

Linagora won a call for tender with the French Ministry of Finances for around 15 millions €, covering the maintenance and development for 260 different pieces of software! Congrats. Let's hope Chamilo gets included too :-) See the original article on Le Journal du Net, in French, here: http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/dsi/open-source-linagora-avec-bull-signe-avec-la-dgfip-1012.shtml

In Ubuntu, the shipped Firefox 15 comes with the new embedded HTML5 PDF reader disabled. It is easy to enable though. Go to "about:config", search on "pdf" and switch the "pdfjs.disabled" entry to "false". Restart Firefox and test it pointing to some PDF URL. In case it does not work, have a look at the "Portable Document Format (PDF)" type to action association in "Edit->Preferences->Applications" and set it to the internal Firefox preview.

Tagalog is the national language of Philippines and, although it's now written mainly in latin fonts (as Wikipedia reports), it can also be found written using the Baybayin script.Well, somehow, it seems difficult to find any relevant information on how to display Baybayin fonts in your browser in Ubuntu.

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