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A guide to making work and study easier during the pandemic

The Spanish city of Barcelona just announced a few days ago that it will migrate desktops from MS Windows / MS Office to free alternatives. The question is why countries like Bangladesh are not making similar moves.

It’s good to read the recent Dhaka Tribune report that the government is planning to introduce ICT in primary education. The question is: What will be taught? Primary school children in Bangladesh probably have never seen or touched a computer before. Teaching them involves starting at a much more basic level than students in the West, who have generally seen computers at home from a young age.

Newly released GIMP 2.9.8 introduces on-canvas gradient editing and various enhancements while focusing on bugfixing and stability.

Until now, the global feed milling industry has been dependent on expensive feed formulation software sold by multi-national vendors. However, free/open-source software is now available for this purpose.

After more than a year of hard work we are excited to release GIMP 2.9.6 featuring many improvements, some new features, translation updates for 23 languages, and 204 bug fixes.

After 26 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 9 (code name "Stretch"), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support team.

Debian 9 is dedicated to the project's founder Ian Murdock, who passed away on 28 December 2015.

The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the development version Scribus 1.5.3, which is another major step onto the next fully-featured version 1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.3 features a completely rewritten text layout engine, which supports complex scripts like Arabic, Hindi or Thai, as well as providing access to advanced OpenType features, such as ligatures and alternate glyphs.

In response to the Snowden revelations of security holes, Microsoft is offering governments limited access to code for security review through its global 'Transparency Centres'. A more rational approach for countries like Bangladesh is to replace MS software with free/open source software.

RaspberryPi3 launched in Bangladesh as a low-cost, Linux-based educational computer for high school students.

It’s time for Bangladesh to join the open source revolution.

Free/Open-source software means that Bangladeshi companies don’t have to be dependent on expensive, foreign technology vendors

With piracy-related lawsuits becoming a looming possibility, open-source software seems to be the answer