"Internet Society Bulgaria, the French Cultural Institute, Linux for Bulgarians and the SELF Project are organising an international conference in Sofia on "Science, Education and Learning in Freedom" with a focus on free educational materials about Free Software and Open Standards. The conference will be held on February 10th, 2008, at the French Cultural Institute in Sofia, 2 Dyakon Ignatij Str., Sofia, Bulgaria..."
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Emacs: Muse 3.12 released
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"I am pleased to announce the release of Emacs Muse 3.12. Emacs Muse is an authoring and publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of writing documents and publishing them to various output formats. One of the principal aims in the development of Muse is to make it very easy to produce good-looking, standards-compliant documents..."
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Frugalware 0.8rc1 (Kalgan) released
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"The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.8 stable release..."
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The Torvalds-Simpsons Prize
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The Torvalds-Simpsons Prize is an experiment to see if the Open-Source community can influence mainstream media to give our hero, the one and only Linus Torvalds, a cameo appearance on a regular episode of The Simpsons.
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Desktop GIS for Linux: An Introduction
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This article provides an overview of Linux-based tools for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including a quick take on the ESRI's ArcReader. Future articles will explore this and other individual tools in greater depth.
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Black Duck Opens Code Center
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Tracking which software licenses are being used as part of an application development lifecycle is an important activity. Developers need to know where code is being used and whether or not it has been approved for use.
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To Command Line or not to Command Line, is it really a question?
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I am personally a strong advocate of using the Command Line. However, I am coming from a more tech type of situation than some others do. For the 'average" user however, is the Command Line relevant to everyday use?
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Backing up in Ubuntu is Finally Made Simple: TimeVault - An In-Depth Review with Screenshots
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File backups are a key element for every user and on every computer. Whether it be an office setting or a home desktop machine, backups are essential - your hard drive will fail at some point; you will need a backup, and you'll be kicking yourself if you learn this lesson the hard way.
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Time and tide don't wait for FOSS projects
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Should free and open source software projects set a release schedule that adheres to the old geek adage: release when it's ready? Or should time-based releases become the norm?
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Penguin-powered UML modeling
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With speculation building that Microsoft will bring Windows 7 forward by a year, ostensibly to staunch the loss of the Vista weary and Vistaphobes to alternative operating systems, now is a good time to look at the state of development tools for Linux.
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GPL and BSD : impact
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One of the many common newcomer questions to Open-Licensed software is why there is such hostility between the supports of Linux, and the supports of the various BSD's.
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CLI audio players for Linux
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What would life be without music? Given the proper codecs, in Linux you can play almost any digital audio format. Linux has many graphical applications that can do the job, such as Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, and XMMS, all of which provide an intuitive user interface, playlist sorting, and various other options. But what if you want low resource usage so you can play tunes on aging hardware? Here are some alternative players for the Linux command line.
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Each one, make one - the distro debate
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Jonathan Oxer, the president of Linux Australia, is a brave man. Few people other than him would have even tried to bring together those who pledge allegiance to different Linux distributions - and within the framework of a conference at that.
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Bordeaux WineTricks Manager 0.3 released
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This is the third release (0.3) of Bordeaux, this release has many fixes and improvements over the 0.2 release. The Application Manger and Winetricks manager are now merged in to a single UI for ease of use. this release has many other small fixes and tweaks as well.
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PlayOnLinux APT repository and 2.0.8 released
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PlayOnLinux today went live with their new APT repository the repository will enable you to automatically update your computer at the time of each release of PlayOnLinux.
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