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OnlyOffice: move away from Google Docs and Office365 with an online open source office suite

Web-based office software, such as Google docs and Microsoft Office 365, have risen over recent years, as a credible, daily solution, for office needs.

They offer, at very low cost, or, seemlingly, for free, a number of online software, that include a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentation software… and online storage.

Early seen as an object of curiosity (when people all used Microsoft Office or Open/Libre-Office…), they have improved a lot in term of features. Also, they have become more and more confortable to use with the deployment of fast and low-latency residential Internet access.

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Bill Gates et Steve Jobs s’entretenant du futur de l’informatique. La conversation de Palo Alto

Bill Gates et Steve Jobs s'entretenant du futur de l'informatique - La conversation de Palo Alto. Tableau inspiré du roman La carte et le territoire - 2016“Il le fait, pourtant, dans une de ses oeuvres les plus abouties, « Bill Gates et Steve Jobs s’entretenant du futur de l’informatique », qu’il a choisi de sous-titrer La conversation de Palo Alto.”… extrait du roman “La carte et le territoire” paru en 2010.
En tant qu’informaticien passionné depuis mes 13 ans par Steve Jobs (et ayant une dent depuis toujours contre Bill Gates), j’ai trouvé à l’époque l’idée de ce tableau assez fascinante. Et plus le temps a passé, plus j’ai eu envie de le posséder.
Comme il n’existait pas, et comme je ne suis pas peintre, j’ai cherché un moment avant de trouver l’artiste qui serait en mesure de réaliser une telle commande. Après plusieurs échecs, le projet est enfin devenu réalité grâce à Duytter, peintre dont j’ai tout de suite aimé les oeuvres.

Le tableau “Bill Gates et Steve Jobs s’entretenant du futur de l’informatique. La conversation de Palo Alto” est désormais dans mon salon, dans l’attente d’un encadrement digne de lui.

Prochain portrait, Linus Torvalds ? 🙂
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Mandrake, Mandriva, Mageia, OpenMandriva… FOSS is FOSS!

Yesterday we learned that Mandriva, the company, was shutting down. I read a lot of sad comments on Twitter about it and realized that few of those guys seemed to be aware that actually Mandriva, the company, wasn’t doing a Linux distribution anymore for several years. The Mandriva Linux distribution, which earlier forked as PCLinuxOS, Mageia and others, is now OpenMandriva.

And as someone tweeted it, “FOSS is FOSS”. True!
That’s the power of FOSS that projects keep alive, and that’s the reason why I think that creating Mandrake Linux 17 years ago was not totally losing my time.

Now, we don’t have to be sad: we have pushed Linux to massive adoption and these have been awesome years! Now the Linux kernel is running millions smartphones worldwide, but the story is only starting! Let’s focus on today’s IT concerns: privacy and the Google hegemony. And a lot more fun stuff actually! Want to be part of it?

Gaël Duval – interested in Open Source, mobile operating systems and data privacy? Follow me on Twitter!

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iPhone 6 preview…

Apple, if the iPhone 6 is looking like that, I think I’ll give you more Euros (after iPhone 1, 3G and 4…). But if you keep on releasing an horrible one like the iPhone 5 that is way TOO LONG (reminds me of some old Nokias…), I’ll give up with Apple and switch to Samsung.