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- ‘Insane jealousy’ made niece set aunt on fire
When delivery counts
The Age – Jun 23, 2005
The distribution includes more than 1000 piecesof software – standard desktop applications such as wordprocessing, spreadsheet applications, internet access applications,web server software, email software, programming languages andtools and several games. In keeping with the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto -that software should be free of charge – they suggested that wemight even offer some to our friends. We promptly forgot all about it but, sure enough, some timelater we got 10 Ubuntu CDs – well, 20 actually – in the mail. Theyeven paid for the postage. That is a reflection of the fact that Ubuntu is funded byCanonical, set up by the South African security expert MarkShuttleworth, who made an awful lot of money when he sold Thawte toVeriSign… We promptly forgot all about it but, sure enough, some timelater we got 10 Ubuntu CDs – well, 20 actually – in the mail. Theyeven paid for the postage. That is a reflection of the fact that Ubuntu is funded byCanonical, set up by the South African security expert MarkShuttleworth, who made an awful lot of money when he sold Thawte toVeriSign. That also explains the rigorous development schedule that isincreasingly making Ubuntu the most popular derivative of thewell-regarded Debian. 1distribution, “Sarge”, was.
Wenn der altersgraue Igel schafft….
ZDFheute.de – Jun 24, 2005
Ubuntu-Linux: Freies Betriebssystem macht die erste Million in Deutschland Sven Hahn Freie Betriebssysteme wie Ubuntu jagen Microsoft immer schneller Marktanteile ab. In Deutschland soll inzwischen mehr als eine Million Computer mit der kostenlosen Software laufen und l?st engagieren sich nicht mehr nur Idealisten f?inux & Co… Nach dem Start pr?ntiert sich die Bildschirmoberfl?e ?sichtlich. Die Programme finden sich in der oberen Leiste: Anwendungen, Orte und System, dazu die typischen Symbole f?en Firefox-Internetbrowser, das Mail-Programm Evolution und die Hilfe. Einfache BedienungEinfach hei? bei Ubuntu auch: Man konzentriert sich aufs Wesentliche, und die meisten Privatnutzer werden auch nichts vermissen. Das B?rogrammpaket ist Openoffice, dazu bietet Ubuntu Programme f?as Verwalten von Kalender, Addressbuch, E-Mail, Bildern, Musik und Videos. Ubuntu basiert auf der Desktop-Oberfl?e Gnome und Debian. Infobox LinuxDas freie Betriebssystem Linux ist das bekannteste Beispiel f?o genannte Open Source-Software. Open Source (offene Quelle) bedeutet, dass der Kern des Programms frei und kostenlos verf?r ist.
‘Insane jealousy’ made niece set aunt on fire
Independent Online – Jun 23, 2005
Ngqola told the magistrate’s court that she had agreed to pay her aunt’s funeral expenses. Sentencing Ngqola to 15 years imprisonment for the murder, acting Judge Ndita said she disagreed with the argument, put forward by Ngqola’s counsel, that her conservative background and belief in witchcraft should “count in her favour” in sentencing. “This is not to say that the court does not take cognisance of the traditional values of African people,” she told Ngqola, “but, at the same time, the values of humanity, ubuntu, are also the core values of the traditional African families you claim to come from. ”
“Your conduct defies the very humanity that is inherent in the African society you claim to come from,” she said, adding that Ngqola had sought to destroy a family by cruelly and brutally killing “a person who they looked up to”. It was clear that the murder had been carefully “planned and premeditated”, but Ngqola’s youth – and the fact that she had shown remorse by pleading guilty to her aunt’s murder in the Khayelitsha magistrate’s court – served as mitigating factors in her sentencing.
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