Results of Australia’s first large-scale Open Source community census have been released to the public. Produced by Open Source consulting firm Waugh Partners, the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report gives voice to the business potentials, patterns and concerns of a previously mute sector of the IT industry.
Read more »Australia’s first Open Source Census published
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RALAMAX PROD | 28 March 2008 | Open letter to the Open community
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"Militant, user, sympathiser, curious people of the software, of the culture and of the open art, this letter addresses to you. [...] We are Ralamax Prod, we have already produced and distributed some films under free licenses [...] and we have today a project of feature film : Varsovie-Express. Consider from now this film like a travel.
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Git 1.5.5, "Available at the Usual Places"
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"...Git is a distributed version control system that was originally written by Linus Torvalds in April of 2005. It was written to be only a temporary replacement for BitKeeper, which Linus had been using to manage kernel source code since February of 2002.
Read more »Common Lisp: First Contact
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"Common Lisp: First Contact is an easy to read introduction to Lisp. The goal is to make you familiar with Lisp syntax and with how Lisp works. Nothing more than a basic understanding of computing is required..."
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Distinction between the Free Software and Open Source movements
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RMS: «...Their stated definition for the term “open source” is somewhat broader than free software, and thus includes my work. But describing the GNU GPL as an “open source license,” as Microsoft did, is more than half misleading. The GNU GPL embodies the firm philosophy of the free software movement; it doesn't come from the open source movement.
Read more »The state of open source: Eric S. Raymond, open source advocate
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Notorious open source advocate and author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond brings colorful acumen to any open source discussion. Here's how Raymond views the continually evolving open source landscape.
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Why do people make software for free?
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When I first tell people about open source software, one of the most common questions I get is this: "I just don't understand why people would create software if they don't get paid for it!
Read more »Putting your privacy and autonomy at risk
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RMS: «New technologies put your privacy and autonomy at risk even inside your skull.» -- via http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-jan-apr.html#09%20April%202008%20%...
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RubyForge now has Git support
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Folks using RubyForge have been requesting alternatives to CVS and Subversion for a while - there are feature requests in for Mercurial, Monotone, Darcs, and Git. Of those, Git seems to be the most popular at the moment, so thanks to Garry Dolley's excellent tutorial on Gitosis, RubyForge now supports Git as one of the SCM choices. Huzzah! ..."
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Komparator — a comparing tool for KDE
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Komparator is an application, that can compare and synchronize the content of two (local or remote) folders. Contrary to popular belief this activity is popular among users of all platforms, but in Linux you have to use unfriendly console apps (such as diff) to do the job.
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Linux development on the PlayStation 3, Part 2: Working with memory
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The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this article, the second in a series, Peter Seebach takes a look at where all the memory goes and how to reclaim it.
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Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring released
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Mandriva is proud to announce the release of its latest distribution, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring.
Read more »Use OTR to Encrypt Pidgin Conversations
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OTR allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing encryption, authentication, and deniability. Don't want someone reading your conversations transmitted in plain text? Then this is for you
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Pash - cross platform PowerShell is out in the wild! Announcement.
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Igor Moochnick announced Pash, an open source implementation of Microsoft's PowerShell. "The main goal is to provide a rich shell environment for other operating systems as well as to provide a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The user experience should be seamless for people who are used to Windows version of PowerShell.
Read more »Play Windows Games on Linux
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Linux Journal Gadget Guy Shawn Powers walks you through how to play Windows games on Linux.
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