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Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party (Karmic Koala)

Estaremos celebrando o lançamento da versão do Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala no sábado dia 07 de novembro na Faculdade Guararapes em Piedade – PE.

O evento terá o suporte da Fuctura – O Centro de Treinamento Oficial do Ubuntu no Brasil.

A intenção das entidades organizadoras deste evento é divulgar e difundir a nova versão do Ubuntu na região e a importância e os benefícios da utilização de Softwares Livres em casa e no trabalho. O evento é gratuito e se divide em palestras e mini cursos e a formatação criada permite que você participe de todo o evento, assim como assisti-lo on-line. Leia mais…

Comunidade do Ubuntu-br-pe, Let’s make it rock!!!

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Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party (Karmic Koala)

The Ubuntu Brazilian team will be celebrating the release of the Karmic Koala this Saturday the 7st of November at Faculdade Guararapes in Piedade – PE.

This event will be supported by Fuctura – The Official Ubuntu Trainning Partner in Brazil.

The intention is to promote and disseminate the new version of Ubuntu in the region and the importance and benefits of using open source software at home and at work. The event is free and will  be divided into lectures and short courses and  the event format allows you to participate in all lecutures and courses , as well as watch it online.

Let’s make it rock!!!

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Latinoware 2009

For three days, Foz do Iguaçu was the Latin American’s capital of free software – Latinoware. From Thursday to Saturday, Latinoware 2009 met 4 thousand people who participated in lectures and 40 courses and short courses to industry, taught by experts from around the world.

As usual, the Ubuntu’s stand was one of the most visited by the audience.

What’s the outcome when you get together ubuntu-br, ubuntu-sp and Fuctura – The Official Ubuntu’s training center in Brazil? Success! You may always expect success when these three groups join efforts.

There, people found information about how to get the Ubuntu Professional Certification – UCP, information about games, troubleshooting, system installation, community, got cd copies, etc.

During the event, we received the invitation to speak at the 4th Santa Catarina’s Free Software Congress that will take place on 25 and November 26 2009, in Santa Catarina.

There was also a stand of the Brazilian Air Force showing the process of migrating to free software at the Air Force Command, using Ubuntu as their operating system. They stepped into our stand and we had a conversation about the community and how we would help them.

Here are some pictures:

Looking forward for the next one.

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Sony Ericsson MD300 in Ubuntu Karmic + Network Man...

Good news.

Now I can connect using my Sony Ericsson MD300 through Network Manager on Karmic.

The developers did a great job and I would like to say thank you for the good work they have done.
The packages are:

• network-manager_0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1_i386
• modemmanager_0.2.git.20091013t230502.c77dbb7-0ubuntu2~nmt1_i386

Update your system and be happy.

PS. udev still not recognizing my modem as a modem and you still have to create the udev rule by hand. You can follow the bug report at LP #451787.

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Sony Ericsson MD300 in Ubuntu Karmic

I could not resist and upgraded my Ubuntu Inteprid Ibex to karmic Alpha 4. Everything went well, look beautiful, with common bugs and workarounds, like any test or beta versions. But what about my 3G modem?

Well, the modem was no longer detected using udev rules described in my previous post (which can be found copies everywhere without any credits to me). After a long research on google, talks on irc, I managed how to make another udev rule to get the modem recognized as a modem and not as a storage device.

ACTION!="Add", GOTO="3G_End"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS(idProduct)=="D0CF", ATTRS(idVendor)=="0fce", RUN+="/bin/sh-c 'echo 3> /sys/%p/bConfigurationValue'"
LABEL="3G_End"

Downoad it here.

The main changes are:

BUS > SUBSYSTEMS
SYSFS > ATTRS
PROGRAM > RUN

The path does not contain the ‘device’ directory.

Bingo, modem working again, now i just have to wait NetworkManager’s guys send the patch to use the modem properly. For now I went back to gnome-ppp until the problem get solved on NM.