You can, and it's actually called "homebrew," which is one of those words that always sounds like a neologism (a newly coined word) but in fact originated in the mid-nineteenth-century, meaning "an alcoholic beverage made at home." Go beer, then, and what's more, go who'd-a-thunk-it hacks that let you for-real load Linux and "embrace your inner penguin" on an unassuming white box half the size of a toaster.
Read more »Third African FOSS conference heads to Senegal
Time is running out to register for Idlelo 3, the third African Conference on Free and Open Source Software and the Digital Commons. The conference will be held in Dakar, Senegal between 16 and 20 March.
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100 Days & Counting For UT3 Linux Client
It's with much disesteem that today marks 100 days since the release of Unreal Tournament 3 and there still is no UT3 Linux client available or any word when it may be released. A port is being worked on and there has been a UT3 Linux server build, but any Linux (or Mac) demo/client has yet to be released. The UT3 v1.0 server was released to the public almost a month late.
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The Ministry of Finance in the Republic of Macedonia uses Debian GNU Linux in its servers
Miroslav Jovanovic, former head of Macedonian Ministry of Finance IT department, gave an overview of the Open Source utilisation at desktops and servers during a conference organized by the United Nations Development Programme at the capital Skopje in 2007.
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Intellectual property’s social value may trump copyright law.
Jon Healey correctly points out that the debate over intellectual-property theft is complex because we are often dealing with "non-real properties." These properties cost nearly nothing to produce, and an infinite number of people can use the same property at the same time. And yet, we still want to treat them as if they were "real" property.
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Gplot simplifies gnuplot graph creation
Gnuplot can generate sophisticated graphs and output them in vector or bitmap image formats. It can produce many graph types, and you can customize the way the output will look to a great extent. But the customizability of gnuplot can work against it when all you want a simple line graph comparing two series of data points. In those cases, gplot lets you use gnuplot to create simple graphs using more semantic options to customize the appearance of common graph objects.
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Making open hardware possible
Free software has many benefits: you can get more secure software, faster updates, lots of tutorials and, definitely, a new way of making software and software that builds communities. From this, the next logical step was Open Hardware.
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GNU/Linux Desktop: The Case Against Running Windows Apps
Does GNU/Linux need to run Windows apps? This question resurfaced last week, when the media noticed that Google has been contributing heavily to the Wine project, which develops a compatibility layer on GNU/Linux for running Windows applications.
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GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering.
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iTunes legal silences Hymn
Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind the open-source Hymn Project.
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Bibliography in LaTex: JabRef
Problem: bibliographical list of cites in LaTeX being grown and became on the thither side of fifty sources. Sorting and storing of bibliographical list in scientific papers is evident.
Solve: there is cross platform system for bibliography base - JabRef.
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Ubuntu Landscape systems management tool set to launch
After a six-month beta period, Canonical Ltd. is adding management muscle to Ubuntu Linux servers and desktops in the form of its Landscape systems management tool.
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New Details Emerge on Ubuntu Mobile
The upcoming open-source mobile OS will offer gesture-based touch commands along with Web 2.0 support and the opportunity for customization
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Ubuntu tops desktop, server Linux enthusiast poll
Ubuntu is the favourite distribution of Linux for use on both desktops and servers, according to a poll of Australian open source enthusiasts.
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Red Hat pumps more resources into Thailand
Red Hat has revamped its strategy here to work more closely with partners, both local and global, putting more resources to focus on Thailand.
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