"...We’ll be answering questions, solving problems, and growing community. So if you’re in the area, come grab a cup and join in the festivities!"
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Idea: creating a “Distributions Developers Forum” ?
http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net –
"...I am both a Debian and an Ubuntu developer, and I’m sometimes amazed that Ubuntu discusses technical choices that were discussed (and solved) a few weeks earlier in Debian. And it’s even worse with the other big distros out there.
Couldn’t we try to improve this ?"
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Flock 0.9.1 Is Now Available
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"I’m pleased to announce the release of Flock 0.9.1 less than 70 days after the launch of 0.9. Today's upgrade to Flock includes over two hundred bug fixes and feature enhancements..."
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Software Freedom Day: Boston
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"On the afternoon of September 15, 2007, the Free Software Foundation and BinaryFreedom (http://binaryfreedom.info) are hosting a Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org) event in downtown Boston..."
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Saturday is Software Freedom Day
http://creativecommons.org –
"...Creative Commons supports free software and actively develops a number of free software projects. Tomorrow would be a great day to hack on some CC software..."
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Digital security with GnuPG plugins
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The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify communications and data, as well as create and manage the keys needed for these tasks. It is a full, open source implementation of the OpenPGP Standard (RFC2440) and is integrated into many Linux applications ranging from clipboard applets to instant messaging clients.
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Linux to get the boot at US Army Corps of Engineers?
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According to an anonymous source working at the Geotechnical & Structures Lab of the US Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, Miss., a committee of government employees and contractors at Vicksburg is considering a new IT policy which will force everyone to move to Windows XP if they are not already running it, and to port all applications save one currently running on Linux to Windows.
Read more »Bowling googlys for Microsoft
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PC Makers Take Surveys on Linux; A Red Hat Exec Says Follow the Money
http://www.crn.com –
The suggestion being, it seems, that Ubuntu's distro buys its friends like a kid on the playground with a lot of candy.
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Open Source Software and the Curse of Plenty
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“El Mariachi” was Robert Rodriguez' 1992 directorial debut, a feature length film reportedly produced for the minuscule sum of $7,000. By the 1990s, average feature film budgets were hitting $50 million; big-budget movies now routinely cost hundreds of millions today. How did Rodriguez do it? And what does that have to do with business intelligence and open source software?
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What’s in a Name? Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Ubuntu, or Ubuntu Linux?
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I presented some thoughts on “Linux” and “GNU/Linux” in a recent post What’s in a name? GNU, Linux, or GNU/Linux?, trying to make the case to use “Linux” in preference to “GNU/Linux.”
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Asia On My Mind
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It's hard to ignore Asia lately, certainly from an open source perspective. Many Linux and open source players are looking at the potential customer bases on this continent (especially the eastern nations) and practically salivating.
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SimplyMEPIS 6.5
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Pre-configured for simplicity and ease of use, you’re productive in minutes, not hours.
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Damn Small Linux Makes Darn Big Impression
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At a mere 50MB, Damn Small Linux (DSL) seems like it would be more at home in the realm of rescue disks instead of Desktop OSs.
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Celebrating Software Freedom Day: Recently Liberated AI Java Source Code
http://www.movingtofreedom.org –
"An objection I've had to many programming books and web sites is that they don't make sample code available under a free software license. This is within the rights of the author, of course, but it seems counter to the spirit of teaching and sharing knowledge to restrict the use of example code.
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