"A few days ago, Marc Balmer, OpenBSD developer, received an email from an OpenBSD user. [...] Despite his initial reaction, he decided to dig deeper into this case, and he uncovered a bug that had been sitting in the code of all BSDs (including Mac OS X), including a lot of old releases. He confirmed the bug was already in 4.2BSD, released in August of 1983."
Read more »The 25 Year Old BSD Bug
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Firefox 3 Release Candiate 1 Code Complete!
http://developer.mozilla.org –
"Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today we are code complete for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). [...] If all goes well we should have the Release Candidate publicly available in late May..."
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GNU and FSF News for May 2008
http://www.advogato.org –
"Skype fought the GPL and the GPL won. The OLPC XO project abandons free software just as RMS switches to an XO; RMS not happy. New monthly newsletters from the FSF and FSFE. GNOME and KDE want to have a joint development conference in 2009. GNOME and GCC conferences coming up later this year. Plus all the usual news: more GPL v3 conversions, HURD news, GNOME news, GCC news, and more..."
Read more »Announcing Freedom Summer of Code
https://we.riseup.net –
"Riseup Labs is excited to announce the Freedom Summer of Code! We aim to advance critical movement technology projects and tools that benefit a wide-variety of radical social justice organizations and movements..."
Read more »Company selling computers preinstalled with gNewSense
http://laclinux.com –
"gNewSense DeltaH was released today, and we are pleased to offer preconfigured Workstations, Portable Systems, ThinkCentres, Laptops, and Servers, as well as fully customized Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64, Xeon, and Opteron computers, preinstalled with the latest gNewSense GNU/Linux operating system.
Read more »"Can we fix it? Yes, we can!"
http://www.tuxdeluxe.org –
Jeremy Allison on free software, Samba clusters and world domination...
Read more »KDE Software Installer - alternative package management for Kubuntu/Debian
http://fosswire.com –
Adept is the graphical package management program included with Kubuntu, which is also available for Debian and other Linux distributions that use the apt package management system.
Read more »OLPC Mission Has Changed
http://linux-blog.org –
Has the mission of OLPC changed so much? I say it has. No longer are the five core principals initially employed when the project started valid. The original Five Core Principles were:
Read more »The Bizarre Cathedral - 3
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
The latest strip from the Bizarre Cathedral - Ryan Cartwright and Tony Mobily
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Funny Side of Linux
http://www.linuxhaxor.net –
In all seriousness of being a linux user we sometimes forget the fun side of it all, here is an attempt to capture some of it.
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An update on the war against Microsoft's war against Linux
http://www.itwire.com –
Regular readers will know that I've rallied against Microsoft's so-called "Get the facts" site for the last fortnight. Rather than give legitimate comparisons facing off Windows servers vs Linux options the site opts for bunkum and hogwash with sensational headlines that have no underlying substance. Here’s the state of play.
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‘Open Source software is the software establishment!’
http://www.dhanapalan.com –
It can be amusing when news articles or blogs are written about a report/study that has only been released or read in excerpt. Small snippets can be extremely controversial on their own, and are easily taken out of the context of the gestalt article.
Read more »OpenArena 0.7.6
http://freegamer.blogspot.com –
OpenArena 0.7.6 is out. (direct link to Win+Lin+Mac zip archive) More maps, more models/skins, more game modes and a new tagline!
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Summer of Code: Ogg Theora Port
http://open.neurostechnology.com –
"...As some of you Neuros old timers may recall, we were the first to port the Ogg Vorbis audio codec to a portable HDD audio player. Now it's time, hopefully, to do the same with the Ogg Theora video codec..."
Read more »My New Favorite Distro: Gentoo Linux
http://jonesproductionsltd.com –
"I had always wanted to try it since its thought of as a Distro for more advanced Linux users. And it couldn't have been more perfect for me."
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