There are different reasons people use Unix-like operating systems, including configurable, availability free of charge, powerful command line interface an many more. Some people are motivated by the moral issue: they reject non-free software.
Read more »TLWIR 31: Using GNU/Linux and Free Software to Bring Back American Innovation
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.
Read more »FSFE calls for an amendment of Slovak Copyright Act
Free Software Foundation Europe calls for an amendment of the Slovak Copyright Act that would eventually enable Free Software and Creative Commons licenses for Slovak citizens.
Read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GNU AutoGen
Hi! The article about GNU AutoGen has been submitted for deletion on Wikipedia. If you think this article should be read by the Wikipedia community, please, come vote to keep it, and explain why here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GNU_AutoGen
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Read more »It's just "The Beginning"
With the birth of Free Software Movement started by Richard Stallman & his supporter’s, & an important decision taken by Linus Torvalds by licensing Linux kernel under GPL has revolutionized the computing world to an extent without which the computing world hadn’t taken it’s glorious form what we see today.
Read more »Why have you switched to GNU/Linux?
There are many great reasons to switch to GNU/Linux. We would love to hear your story as to why you made the switch.
Read more »TLWIR 7: Patent Trolls, Superheroes and More
This week, the fundamental threads that runs through all of the stories are freedom, protecting GNU/Linux from attack, and providing viable alternatives to proprietary software.
Read more »Successful use of DDE in ArchHurd
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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Two new projects can help free software replace Skype
GNU Free Call and WebRTC are both building frameworks that stand to make Skype obsolete. Skype has been in the news a lot lately: Microsoft agreed to buy the company, their network has gone down twice recently, and they're threatening to take unspecified action against developers who try to write free software to make calls on their system.
Read more »How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)?
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.
Read more »Inline assembly instructions in GCC
Example with an ARM target on how to use GCC inline assembly effectively in C code.
Read more »GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 Released
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 »GNU Free Call: an Open Source Skype Alternative
GNU Free Call will offer a service that's both secure and usable on all platforms, much the way closed-source Skype is, its developers say.
Read more »GNU Free Call Announced
GNU Free Call is a new project to develop and deploy secure self-organized communication services worldwide for private use and for public administration. We use the open standard SIP protocol and GNU SIP Witch to create secured peer-to-peer mesh calling networks, and we welcome all participation in our effort.
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