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Why Linux Will Crush Windows 7 on Netbooks

http://www.webmonkey.com

Do you like listening to music while you browse the web, chat with friends and download some torrents? Well, pick three because, you won’t be doing all those things at once in Windows 7 Starter Edition. Mind you, it’s not the the netbook can’t handle the workload, it’s because Microsoft thinks netbooks should be crippled.

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Debian Kernel Has No Proprietary Firmware

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com

Debian developer Robert Millan is offering an alternative kernel for Debian's Lenny free Linux distro. Unlike the standard Lenny kernel, it contains no proprietary firmware.

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The Future Of Computing Will Be Good Enough

http://tech.yahoo.com

The latest version of the Linux kernel includes an experimental driver module that tears apart the fabric of space-time. Keir Thomas tested this module, and in doing so managed to retrieve the following article, posted on PC World supersite in the year 2025.

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Linus on Linux: The Linus Torvalds Interview Part 1

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Linus reflects on 18 years of working on Linux, the developer ecosystem and his goal for Linux on the desktop.

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Why I Use Linux

http://www.pcworld.com

As I've mentioned in a previous Linux Line post, I am not a programmer. Yet Linux is built on the philosophical principle of freely sharing source code. This is how those who create Linux frequently advocate it.

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Could free software liberate poor countries?

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Nine years ago I wrote this headline for a Linux Today story. You can read the full story below.

This is a follow-up.

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Why the Free Software Movement had to get involved in the first Science and Democracy World Forum

http://fm-sciences.org

"...Nearly 300 delegates, coming from 18 countries on 4 continents, shared on the place that sciences and technologies have on the “march of the world”, on their evolutions and on the necessity of the emergence, on an international scale, of a network-space, which could put in prospects the working of the scientific insti

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Farmers, Politicians, Free Software Fans Demonstrate Against Patents

http://www.ip-watch.org

"MUNICH - Farmers’ associations, environmental, aid and development organisations together with anti-patent activists of the free software movement met this week for one of the largest anti-patent rallies in Munich..."

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Software has a hard impact on the planet

http://www.straight.com

"Speaking by phone from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, told the Georgia Straight, “Proprietary software is an injustice, and our movement is to put an end to that.” The iconic software developer’s ideals of collaboration helped bring about the GNU/Linux operating system, a free-software alternative to Windows..."

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Norwegian Minister Publishes Book under CC BY-SA

http://creativecommons.org

"Today, Norway’s Minister of Government Administration and Reform, Heidi Grande Røys, launched a new book, edited by the Minister, about sharing and the social side of computer networks..."

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Is it time to stop using the word 'piracy'?

http://www.guardian.co.uk

"...Some people have highlighted this tension between different uses of the word for a long time. Richard ­Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and a notorious linguistic stickler, has a long list of words he finds troubling (including "free", "creator" and "ecosystem"). He believes that piracy has always been a propaganda term when used by publishers..."

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New Enclosures: What Has Free Software Got to Do with Patents on Pigs?

http://guorbatschow.com

"Munich, Germany. Marienplatz. Richard Stallman spoke at a joint rally against bio- and software patents in front of the European Patent Office.“ -- ( FSF ) --

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Who'd Be Responsible for a Linux Conficker?

http://www.osnews.com

Whenever the Conficker worm comes up here on OSNews (or any other site for that matter) there are always a number of people who point their fingers towards Redmond, stating that it's their fault Conifcker got out.

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How is it going free software on latinamerica?

http://pbarrera.livejournal.com

"I made this blog with the purpose of communicate the advance of Free software movement in latinamerica, facts, community related issues and all this possible to be useful for all free software community worldwide. latinamerica is an strong "free software nation" , cause here in this lands, we thought the continent as one nation, united by similar lives and traditions.

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