Author: John
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Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is Ready, Want Pi!
The Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix provides a complete software environment for the Raspberry Pi, a $35 computer system designed to spur interest in computer science, software development, and electronic technology among young people. This software release marks an important milestone in Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology’s (CDOT) applied research in building open source…
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Scratch on Linux
MIT has Scratch on Linux. Check the site for more details. It is interesting to note that Scratch runs on Squeak. Debian / Ubuntu Package You can download the latest Scratch package for Ubuntu from our Download page. The source code for this package is hosted on Assembla, as is the list of bugs. If…
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Linux: Where the Jobs Are
From a post By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld Check out the full post for links to related articles and a wealth of other information. Numerous studies have emerged over the past few years indicating that Linux skills are a hot item in the IT hiring market, but on Tuesday the Linux Foundation will publish a brand-new…
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How to teach undergrads how to become open source contributors without writing any code
Posted 21 Feb 2012 on OpenSource.com by Sebastian Dziallas This is the story of a college class taught inside an open source community. Last fall, I taught Release Engineering to a small group of undergraduates at Olin College, an engineering school a few miles outside Boston. The goal was to teach them how to…