Mozilla has confirmed that version 3.0 of its popular open source Firefox web browser is approaching its end-of-life (EOL). According to the Mozilla developer's weekly meeting notes, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x following the release of version 3.0.19, the last security and stability update to the 3.0.x branch.
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Microsoft licensing Linux? What?
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Proprietary giant is licensing open source to its partners. What is going on?
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Get SheevaPlug!
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Eban Moglen suggests this ARM-based, GNU/Linux device as a networking solution to the troubled times now facing the Free Internet. Communicate with networking friends with greater security. See interview below.
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Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. The Cloud Log
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Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is also in danger of losing, because those same services now represent a huge threat to our freedom as a result of the vast stores of information they hold about us, and the in-depth surveillance that implies.
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Got Security? You're in Denial
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Do you think your systems are secure? Install DenyHosts and you’ll realize that you were in denial.
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Resuming interrupted sftp transfers in Linux
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Software Engineering with FOSS and Linux: "It is often the case that an sftp transfer gets interrupted for one reason or another, resulting to partially transferred files. This can be annoying, especially in the case of large file transfers."
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Interview: Nina Paley (author of "Sita Sings the Blues" and the two "Minute Meme" animations)
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In lieu of today's regular column, I've decided to present an edited transcript of a very informative interview of Nina Paley by Thomas Gideon of "The Commandline Podcast." Paley has been doing a lot of interviews since her free-licensed release of "Sita Sings the Blues" and her subsequent work with QuestionCopyright.org (specifically her two "Minute Meme" animations: "Copying Is Not Theft" and "A
Read more »Week 2, Day 6 of SCO v. Novell Trial - The Mistrial Motion, Kim Madsen
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Chris Brown attended the jury trial today for us in SCO v. Novell, and he has the details about the mistrial motion, the denial of the motion to allow evidence, and there was testimony today from Kim Madsen and Darl McBride and a deposition played of Steven Sabbath. The mistrial was related to the denial of Novell's motion to allow evidence.
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The march to secure the Internet's core DNS infrastructure with DNSSEC is moving forward
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Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job
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Tim Bray--co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee--has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone.
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Shotwell 0.5.0 photo manager arrives
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The Yorba developers have released version 0.5.0 of their open source Shotwell photo manager for the GNOME desktop, adding support for Google's Picasa Web Albums service and printing
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Wolvix linux - A linux distro based on Slackware with a graphic installation mode
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Wolvix is a desktop oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware. It features the Xfce desktop environment and a comprehensive selection of development, graphics, multimedia, network and office applications. Using Wolvix does not require more than basic computer skills, but installing and administering the system might require more knowledge than some of the other GNU/Linux distributions.
Read more »Debian: DebConf10 & 2010 Project Leader Elections
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The DebConf organisers have announced they are now accepting proposals for contributions to this year’s annual Debian developers conference and the Debian Project has revealed the final four candidates for the 2010 Project Leader Elections
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How to Change The Language of Your Ubuntu Linux
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If you want to change your language settings in Ubuntu , do the following
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Benchmarks: Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, Ubuntu 10.04, openSUSE 11.3
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This early development comparison of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3 produced some of the most interesting results as of late in terms of comparing different Linux desktop distributions.
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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.
