Gecko-MediaPlayer is a custom browser plugin which uses MPlayer and its GNOME bindings to provide a better user interface for playing audio and video inside your browser.

Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.

Governments may be tied by Microsoft due to pressure from Microsoft-funded analysts

Many patents work in the same way that subprime mortgages and all its derivatives. They create false assets and so false economies that finally develop in important economical crisis. But in the case of patents it is worse indeed, because every patent is potentially a monopoly and a block to the free market.

"...Lisp is a list-based language, and although most modern lisps provide some higher level abstraction for structures or records, it is not uncommon to use simple lists and functions to represent them.

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West) is a group focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world, based in the Northwest of England at the moment.

The first meeting is in Manchester on the 31st of August.

Historically, the relationship between Debian and Ubuntu has been strained at times. There are various technical and social reasons behind this discomfort in our relationship, and while there is still work to be done to ensure we are working effectively together, the relationship has most certainly improved in recent years.

Development of the Linux kernel is a process that's a mystery to many outsiders. Someone who thinks he has just the right code to add to Linux periodically crashes into the hurdles that need to be leaped before the new code can get incorporated into the kernel.