There is a fairly common perception among FOSS hackers that there is no community of FOSS lawyers. Scratch the surface, though, and it turns out that- despite our handicaps- the FOSS legal community is there and growing.
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“Boycott Novell” and Expanded Scope
Suggestions needed for a name that better reflects this site's new scope
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How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed
How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed. There are many guides found on the net describing Kerrighed and how to set it up using Ubuntu and others.However, to the best of my knowledge there isn’t a step by step guide specifically designed for Kerrighed using Debian Lenny. So here it is.
Read more »Europeans Asked to Stop MS’s Subversion of EIFv2 (European Interoperability Framework Version 2)
Microsoft's continued attempts to remove Free software and standards from Europe's agenda sure call for action
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Midgard 8.09.8 released
The Midgard Project has released the eighth maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software Content Management Framework.
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Apple, MS, and Intellectual Ventures Versus Android, Which Finds New Home at Telstra
The story of Apple, Microsoft, and about 1,100 patent-trolling satellite firms, which Apple, Bill Gates, and Microsoft are sponsoring (via Intellectual Ventures)
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Pana - A music player based on Amarok 1.4
Pana is a fork of Amarok 1.4 . If you are already using a newer Amarok than 1.x, that's a better choice.
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Emulation of windows sucks on Linux
I have been following the WINE project for quite a few years. These guys are doing an incredibly hard job in trying to keep up with a moving target and basically re-writing an operating system to run natively on top of another operating system.
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Comparing Files
You often may need to compare one version of a file to an earlier one or check one file against a reference file. Linux provides several tools for doing this, depending on how deep a comparison you need to make.
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If You Distrust Mono, you're a “MS Hater”, “Paranoid” or a “Conspiracy Theorist”
Microsoft's obey-or-be-ostracised method for daemonising and thus silencing opposition expands to GNU/Linux through former employees and other collaborators
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Internet's not special, says communications minister
Web experts recoiled today at communications minister Stephen Conroy's assertion that the internet is not "special" and should be censored like books, films and newspapers.
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Red Hat Revs Up RHEV Enterprise Virtualization
Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today announced the beta availability of its next virtualization platform -- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2.
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It's the End of the Life as We Know It and Linux Feels Fine
That endings happen on a regular basis is nothing new; we see evidence of change and chaos every day. We just don't like to talk about it. Endings can make us jumpy, sad, angry. Who likes saying goodbye to a visiting friend, or watch the last game of the season?
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Mac OS X 10.6.2 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 Performance
...for those impatient ones today we have published an extensive set of tests comparing the performance of Mac OS X 10.6.2 against a development build of Ubuntu 10.04. This is our first time exploring how Canonical's Lucid Lynx can compete with Apple's Snow Leopard.
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IBM, Novell Plot More SUSE Linux Moves
When it comes to hardware and software, IBM and Novell have a longstanding SUSE Linux business relationship. So where are the two companies heading next together? Novell and IBM provided some clues during last week’s Novell BrainShare conference. Here are the details.
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