Hundreds of Cubans lined up at state-owned telephone offices Monday to buy cellular phone services previously available only to government officials and foreigners.

President Raul Castro, who took power in February, has moved quickly to ease restrictions in the communist country and the new reform allows Cubans to buy cellular phones for the first time or register those they had held illegally.

“It is an advance, like other things that are happening in Cuba now,” said Alejandro, smiling with his new contract in hand. The self-employed Cuban has used a cellular telephone illegally for years in the name of a foreigner.

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This is a first step I think, lifting of other restrictions will follow.

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A comprehensive list of Linux system services you might have on your computer. Each service is explained and there’s a recommendation whether to enable or disable it. Also a quick tutorial on how to manage the services (enable/disable) on Fedora and Ubuntu systems.

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A very good source of information to those who wants to tweak their Linux Desktop especially for Fedora and Ubuntu users.

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