Finalmente! Depois de muitos meses de trabalho duro nas traduções do Ubuntu, podemos celebrar mais um lançamento, o meu primeiro como membro da equipe de tradução! O trabalho em si é muito grande e ao mesmo tempo delicado! Muitas foram as pessoas que se interessaram, mas foram poucos os que insistiram e não deixaram a peteca cair. Creio que todos nós aprendemos muito uns sobre os outros, e principalmente consolidamos boas amizades neste percurso.

Finally!!! After so many months of working hard on the brazilian portuguese translations, we can now celebrate and enjoy the new Ubuntu release, my first release as part of the Ubuntu family! The work itself is enormous and yet delicate at the same time. There were many people who showed interest in lending us a helping hamd, but during the long winding road, it was a smaller group that emerged from the ashes!

David Harding is organizing a keysigning party for this June 14th, right after the LUG/IP meeting. I’m not sure I’ll be able to attend it, but I’ll definitely try my best! I do have some friends in the Princenton area and could use this chance to meet them over coff coffee coff. :) On a different note, this blog is now syndicated at GnuJersey.org. I just love the Ubuntu and RHCE badges next to my posts!

So it seems that Macrobe will be releasing Flash Player 9 for Linux some time early in 2007. It is about time!

Today’s Google’s announcement of a Linux supported version of their Picasa product sent some ripple efects through the Open Source community pond… This article shows some interisting different ways people reacted to it, from the “holy cow, this is so cool Batman!” to the “… but they’re using Wine for this?” comments. I particularly went through a roller coaster of emotions myself, going through several different “stages” as wave after wave of the news came up in my RSS Reader.

… ou, como “Duda” Teixeira pecou em seu artigo sobre Software Livre. Neste último dia 17 de maio foi publicado pela revista Veja (http://vejaonline.abril.com.br) um artigo que gerou bastante controvérsia, sobre como a adoção de alternativas de Software Livre pelo governo brasileiro levou o país àum declínio em seus avanços tecnológicos, como também ao gasto desnecessário com suporte. Apesar de pequeno, a mensagem enviada pelo artigo do Sr. “Duda” Teixeira foi super clara para o leitor brasileiro: Software Livre é um grande engano!

This last May 17th there was a controversial article published by the brazilian news magazine Veja (http://vejaonline.abril.com.br) on how the adoption of Open Source alternatives by the Brazilian goverment led to a major decline in technological advances as well as increased the overall spending on technical support. Though a very brief piece in the magazine, Mr. “Duda” Teixeira’s article’s message was loud and clear to the average brazilian reader: Open source is a major mistake!