The Fellowship is FSFE's Community dedicated to Free Software. Starting in November 2009, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) will award three people with a Fellowship grant every month for the coming year. Everybody who is actively working for Free Software but cannot afford the Fellowship contribution can apply for the grant.
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Is Ubuntu's release cycle its downfall?
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With all of these problems raising their ugly heads at each release there comes a noisy round of complaints from those who believe they have a right to complain about FREE software. Like every squeaky wheel these complaints are annoying and contribute towards tarnishing what many believe is a good Linux distribution.
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Jaspersoft Joins Open Source Software Institute
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Jaspersoft, provider of the world's most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it is joining the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) to support its
mission of extending the benefits of open source software to government agencies and academic organizations.
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Does Wine Make Linux Too Loose?
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The problems one is likely to encounter with Linux tend to pale by comparison with the security problems one is likely to have using Windows. Unless, that is, you're using Wine.
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Checking in on CodePlex
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In this blog entry, I'll give my impressions of how the CodePlex Foundation is developing, and (as before) my opinions on how effective the decisions being made are likely to be in achieving the Foundation's goals.
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Vote for the openSUSE DVD Cover
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Typically Novell has created the artwork for the openSUSE DVDs, but this time around we had some really interesting and creative input from openSUSE contributors.
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KDE makes me happy
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I’ll be honest, I’m surprising myself by not returning to Openbox. I’m still running Chakra with KDE, and I still love it. It needs a couple extra seconds to boot, but afterwards it feels just as fast as Openbox.
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The trough of disillusionment for Ubuntu?
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Reading this blog entry on Linux Magazine, the thought occurred to me that Ubuntu is making its way nicely along the path that new projects have travelled for many years. The Hype Cycle.
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Distributions *are* the strength of Linux
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Some people think that no operating system has any need for distributions, but one of the thing that impress most the users who switch is, in many cases (at least that I could look at myself) the presence of distributions and the ability to install almost any software by simply looking it up in the package manager.
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Sun and Apache: the Java scars that endure
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Apache Software Foundation (ASF) pioneers have toasted 10 years of independence and successful code development at their annual conference in California. Speakers who spun-up the project in its early days celebrated building a community that has stayed (mostly) friendly and dedicated to the ideal of building open-source code.
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One of the reasons why we've been so successful is we've been able to have a place where people with different sets of interests can come together and work," Leung said. "For the most part, people believe it's a neutral playing field, though every year there is a different company that owns Apache, from IBM to Sun to Google, but that's mostly a joke.
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FOSS, FUD and Freeloaders
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The open source community is, in my experience, a fairly friendly place for the most part. Seriously. Only rarely do I run into serious jerks in the FOSS crowd. When I do, though, the circumstances usually follow a pattern.
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Linux for grandma & grandpa
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Like a lot of technically savvy people, I'm the default technical support person for friends and family. I've no problem with that, but I can't spend all my time answering my mother-in-law's questions and worrying about what malware she might stumble over. So, I put desktop Linux on her laptop - and ever since then I've had a lot fewer late night calls.
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Discovering "Sita Sings The Blues"
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"Sita Sings The Blues" by self-taught animator Nina Paley, may be the first feature-length animated film released under a free license (the Creative Commons By-SA). Presented through a variety of animation styles and narrative tones, it fuses apparently disparate ideas and sources into a unified whole.
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Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad
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Ubuntu’s new Karmic Koala 9.10 release has been highly anticipated as the greatest release ever. In truth, it falls flat on its face in a time when Linux really needed to shine.
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