If that wasn't bad enough, here are two more repressive acronyms that are about to get foisted upon the Free Internet
Read more »TLWIR 31: Using GNU/Linux and Free Software to Bring Back American Innovation
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Free Software is mainly about innovation. Free Software engineers find radical new ways of solving old problems. In doing so, they teach those whose minds have ossified how to think outside of the box. The U.S. manufacturing sector is in trouble, partially because we have been outperformed by our neighbors in the East.
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Virtualization With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server
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This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Read more »HUD: Ubuntu`s New Smart Menus, Announced By Mark Shuttleworth
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Mark Shuttleworth has announced HUD, or Head-Up Display, a replacement for application menus in Unity which should solve many issues with existing menus "by connecting users directly to what they want".
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Updated Edition Book The Geospatial Desktop: Open source GIS and Mapping
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Locate Press published an updated edition of "Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools" written by the creator of Quantum GIS.
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The silver lining of the MegaUpload shutdown
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It's been big news online lately that MegaUpload was shut down. Along with it, many of the other annoying, wait-60-seconds-and-fill-in-this-captcha-or-upgrade-to-premium file sharing services have stopped offering public downloads. A lot of people are understandably upset about this, since in the case of MegaUpload, they don't even have access to their own files anymore.
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The Internet Spoke and, Finally, Congress Listened!
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This is great news, and it is a direct result of this week's mass protests. Together, we reminded the U.S. Congress who it works for. EFF alone helped users send more than 1,000,000 emails to Congress, and countless more came from other organizations.
Read more »Extremadura CIO plans Linux rollout on 40,000 desktops
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The CIO of Spanish autonomous region Extremadura says it is planning to move the administration's 40,000 desktop systems to a Debian distribution.
Read more »12 reasons to love KDE
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Here's why we love the world's most configurable desktop. TechRadar rain positivity onto the world's most configurable desktop and pick out some of its best functions and applications...
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FSFE Fellowship Interview with Heiki Ojasild
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For our January fellowship interview we met Heiki Ojasild. He joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011, undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian, his mother tongue. He is currently developing an XChat add-on, as well as a website for free SVG and JavaScript games. In 2010 he took part in the Baltic Olympiad in Informatics.
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Can you help the FSF get colocated hosting?
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If you know a Boston-area company or institution that could offer us colocated hosting and bandwidth, FSF could use your help! This is a great opportunity for a company or institution to give back to the free software community, and make a direct, tangible contribution to free software development.
Read more »Father of the web says US copyright law violates human rights
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Tim Berners-Lee says US government plan to censor the internet violates human rights.
Read more »Will teaching children basic programming skills have a political impact?
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Schools should foster curiosity and the spirit enquiry in an environment that encourages students to learn. A classroom running proprietary software cannot provide this.
Read more »How to install Takeoff Launcher on Fedora 16 KDE
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Takeoff Launcher is one of my favorite menu styles and I consider it one of 2 cool reasons to use the K Desktop Environment. Though it is not in Fedora’s repository, there is an rpm package that you can install from the project’s website.
Read more »Wikipedia to go dark on 18 January
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In what it calls "an unprecedented decision" by the community, the non-profit organisation confirmed that it will blackout the English version of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday 18 January 2012 from 05:00 GMT.
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