Why text files, specifically? Well, if you're doing much work at the shell on Linux, you'll start encountering a lot of text or files that can behave like text. Log files, configuration files and output from many commands can all be manipulated with the GNU textutils.
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Choose Your VIM Color Scheme With Color Sampler Pack
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You can easily change your vim color scheme by :colorscheme, but it can be hard to compare several schemes to decide what’s best for you.
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Generic Security Service Library (GSSLib) 1.0.0 release
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GSSLib is an implementation of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) in GNU project and licensed under GPLv3. GSS-API is used by network servers to provide security services, for example, GSS can be used to authenticate a client against SMTP or IMAP servers.
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Document Freedom Day 2010 -- Liberate your documents
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Today is Document Freedom Day 2010. For the third time, groups all over the world are celebrating open document formats and Open Standards. They are raising awareness for how a technical issue impacts our day-to-day lives.
Read more »Esfera: A fascinating UI concept for window management in Ubuntu
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What he has proposed really struck me as something Linux CAN do and SHOULD do. It will be another revolution in the desktop thanks to the Linux community.
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Pretty penguin: five great themes for the GNOME desktop
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GNOME has attracted a vibrant community of open source artists who are collaborating to produce aesthetically sophisticated visual styles for the desktop environment. In this article we will look at a selection of some of the best themes for the GNOME environment.
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Ruby Summer of Code raises $100,000
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The Ruby Summer of Code has raised $100,000 in three days, allowing it to fund twenty interns for the newly created student mentoring programme
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Bradley Kuhn joins the FSF board
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When Bradley started working at the Free Software Foundation in September 2001, it was to join a team that then-executive director was putting together. It was a period of transition for the FSF. When he left the FSF in 2005 much of that agenda had been achieved, and he joined FSF legal counsel Eben Moglen and Dan Ravicher to set up the Software Freedom Law Center.
Read more »Misleading PR Campaign From Microsoft About “Open Source”
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Debunking the increasingly-widespread myth that Microsoft has changed and that it has an interest in Free/Open Source software
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NVIDIA dropping support for new GPUs in the nv driver
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NVIDIA has announced that it is dropping support for new GPUs, such as the forthcoming Fermi, from it's open source xf86-video-nv driver for X11
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GNU Generation 2.0
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After many successful months of GNU Generation, GNU Generation 2.0 was officially announced at LibrePlanet 2010. This builds upon the original GNU Generation by lowering the entry barrier to free software contribution, and making the program more extensible. So what is new? Let's see...
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Grsync (Rsync GUI) 1.1.0 Ubuntu 9.10 And 10.04 .deb Download
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Grsync 1.1.0 was released 2 days ago and it adds some small new features as well as some bugs fixed:
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Red Hat moves into desktop virtualization
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Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday.
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Terminator 0.90 Finally Released [Multiple Terminals In The Same Window]
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Terminator 0.90 is a complete re-write of the original code. The most important new feature is that now you are able to save layouts.
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4 new themes added for bisigi themes project and screenshots included
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This article is just an update that we have already posted some time ago about Nice Ubuntu themes for ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) Users
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
