After building the infrastructure to analyse the code in an Ubuntu release I decided to satisfy a simple curiosity and figure out how much GNU software is actually part of a modern distribution.
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Successful use of DDE in ArchHurd
http://www.archhurd.org –
We are happy to announce that DDE has been successfully packaged for Arch Hurd! This means that we now have the ability to compile drivers from Linux 2.6 for the Hurd.
If you want to run DDE now for your network card, the wiki should help - feel free to update it!
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GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP
http://ubuntuwicohan.blogspot.com –
We are distributing today a 1.0 release of the GNU SIP protocol provisioning and peer-to-peer call server, GNU SIP Witch. GNU SIP Witch is developed within GNU Telephony and has been selected for use in the GNU Free Call project. This will provide a stable release that we will support for existing applications while we actively develop GNU Free Call services.
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DebConf "Newbies"/Non-Regulars Funding Initiative
http://www.debian.org –
The Debian Project again supports "newbie" and non-regular (last attended in 2007 in Scotland or before) Debian Developers or Maintainers to join the annual Debian Conference (DebConf) with a special travel fund. Mail to the DebConf Newbies Team before June 18. DebConf11 will take place in Banja Luka, in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina from Sunday 24 to Saturday 30 July, 2011.
Read more »Avoid the pitfalls of the JavaScript Trap on Gmail
http://www.fsf.org –
Today we're launching the first in a series of features on how to use common websites without using proprietary JavaScript. You may not be aware of the dangers of JavaScript -- a problem we've deemed The JavaScript Trap -- proprietary software running on your computer, inside your web browser. The focus of our first feature is Google's Gmail service.
Read more »Work on a free software GPRS/EDGE stack!
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GPRS is a technology used by mobile phones to transmit data. If you have internet access on your cellphone, it's likely that you are using GPRS. A project called OsmocomBB is underway to develop software that could be used in free mobile devices. Progress has been good, with regular telephone calls and text messages already working, but data connections are still not supported.
Read more »GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 Released
http://gcc.gnu.org –
GCC 4.6 brings support for the new Go programming language, improved experimental support for the C++0x standard, support for Android Bionic C library, support fot ARM Cortex-M4, basic support for the Cortex-A15, Intel Core 2 and Core i7 optimizations, support for AMD Bobcat CPUs and more.
Read more »ISPmail tutorial for Debian Squeeze
http://workaround.org –
You are interested in learning all the basics about running your own mail server using Debian Squeeze? Be my guest. All you need is a computer running Debian (Squeeze) and an internet connection. This tutorial explains step-by-step how to set up such a server and give you lots of background information in the process.
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How to edit commited subversion logs
http://www.optilabs.eu –
When you put a mistake into some of your comments in subversion repository it's no need to cry. There are simple ways to correct your mistakes. I will show you two most common possibilities.
Read more »Eben Moglen Explains the FreedomBox on CBS News
http://www.softwarefreedom.org –
This past weekend CBS News aired a segment on the FreedomBox featuring an interview with Eben Moglen. The piece covers the general outline and some of the difficulties facing the freedom-focused project that has picked up national attention and raised $80,000 in less than 20 days. Video is available either to watch (flash) or to download directly.
Read more »Implementation Qemu-kvm 0.15.0,SpiceServer and Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 KVM Server
http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com –
Following bellow seems to be the best way to implement Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 spice enabled, Spice Server 0.8.2 and Spice-Gtk-0.7 with GObject-introspection enabled on Ubuntu 11.10 in meantime close to Beta 1.
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Getting Started with MeeGo Linux
http://www.linux.com –
The MeeGo project is about to celebrate its first birthday, but there may still be Linux and open source developers who aren't quite sure how it relates to other Linux-based distributions for tablets, netbooks, or phones — like Android, Chrome OS, or the netbook remixes of popular desktop distros.
Read more »Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0
http://fsfe.org –
The YaCy project is releasing version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer Free Software search engine. The software takes a radically new approach to search. YaCy does not use a central server. Instead, its search results come from a network of currently over 600 independent peers. In such a distributed network, no single entity decides what gets listed, or in which order results appear.
Read more »Proactive Spam Fighting with Akonadi
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"Current Spam fighting techniques like for example SpamAssassin are reactive. SpamAssassin uses a rule based approach and a Bayesian filter.[...]Bayesian filtering requires to collect a rather large amount of mail messages before messages can be filtered. This illustrates that reactive Spam fighting is no real solution."
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Writing standalone programs with EGL and KMS
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Both on dri-devel and at the most recent Kernel Summit, the idea of a KMS based console program came up yet again. So in the interest of facilitating the lazyweb to write one, I thought I’d provide a review of what it takes to write a simple KMS program that ties in with GL, just in case anyone wants to port the VTE widget and give me my VTs on a cube. :
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