"...This is a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses. In accordance with the Software Freedom Law Center’s (SFLC’s) philosophy of assisting the community with GPL compliance cooperatively, this guide focuses on avoiding compliance actions and minimizing the negative impact when enforcement actions occur.
Read more »A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance
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15 Examples To Master Linux Command Line History
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When you are using Linux command line frequently, using the history effectively can be a major productivity boost. In fact, once you have mastered the 15 examples that I’ve provided here, you’ll find using command line more enjoyable and fun.
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A Simple Guide to Making the Perfect Recording in Audacity
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let me show you some of the little tricks I've learned that you can use to make that perfectly sounding recording each time, every time.
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Some Emacs Basics
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"Emacs is a class of text editors that have an extensive set of features and that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU project, is under active development and is the most popular version.
Read more »Diving into Git
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"This week I decided to convert my Ledger repository over to Git. Previously I’d been using Subversion for about 4 years, and CVS for 1 year before that. There was a brief flirt with Darcs, and Mercurial, but neither ever attracted me enough to convert the repository officially..."
Read more »Software Freedom Law Center Publishes Legal Guide on Free Software
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"... «By publishing this guide, we hope to share our knowledge, just as free software developers do when they share their creations with the world» said James Vasile, Counsel at SFLC. «I take great pride in this work put together by my colleagues, and I expect that it will be especially useful to developers of free software.» ..."
Read more »What to do before switching from Windows to Linux
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There are many of you out there who are looking to make a change from your current Windows operating system to the Linux operating system. Some of you may have doubts, many of you most likely have questions before taking the plunge. I’ll try to point you in the right directions before you switch from Windows to Linux.
Read more »All about Linux swap space
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When your computer needs to run programs that are bigger than your available physical memory, most modern operating systems use a technique called swapping, in which chunks of memory are temporarily stored on the hard disk while other data is moved into physical memory space.
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Latex - Small Tutorial
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Today I would like to introduce you to the world of TeX, specifically LaTeX.
Read more »A guide to common Linux file and system commands for new users
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The primary reason for writing this is to help new users develop an understanding of the Linux file system commands. Not all of them, just some of the more common ones. Let's look at what they do and why I would need to use them, what not to do, what each thing means and what it's for.
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Using LaTeX: The Basics [part I]
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This is the first of a series of articles about using Tex system. A good place to begin would be by asking the question “Why is it worth using TeX?” We’ll also take a closer look at the various tools available to us, which makes working with TeX much easier. In the next articles we will focus on Master Thesis writing, Presentations and Correspondence.
Read more »Beginners guide to database administration tools
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Welcome to an introduction for the beginner to the basic manipulation of the MySQL database with free software. The purpose of this article is to show how universally straightforward it is to get started with installing and applying a high-grade enterprise ready database like MySQL, and to learn how to manipulate it via numerous free software approaches.
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Help yourself in man pages
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To know more about a command, check for more options and maybe some examples how to use it, you need to read the manual of the specified command. While you are in man, you can trigger search by specified a keyword. Man provides efficient browsing like in vim, you can bookmark a point and jump back to that point later, and a lots more.
Read more »Linux File Permissions
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GNU Privacy Guard
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"The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software, released under the GNU General Public License. It is a part of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU software project..."
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