"I am pleased to announce the new version of the GNU IceCat web browser. This is the first release based on the Firefox 3.6 branch..."
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Mozilla denies using H.264 in Firefox
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Vimeo and YouTube seem to believe that reliance on proprietary plugins for video is a problem on the web. Mozilla believes that reliance on patent-encumbered formats is a problem on the web. Who’s right?
Read more »Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny
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module-assistant is a tool for building Debian kernel modules from source, without having to rebuild the whole kernel. It fetches module-source packages that have been prepared for the Debian distribution via apt and produces .deb packages. This tutorial shows how to use module-assistant in command-line mode and in interactive mode.
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London stock exchange switches to Linux
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IN THE CITY OF LONDON, the financial heart of the UK, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has begun a twelve-month migration to a Linux based trading system.
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New flavours of Ubuntu being developed in Ireland
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Recently I popped down to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition here in Dublin. Walking through the exhibition, I stumbled upon Zorin OS, which caught my eye. So I stopped and asked Kyrill and Artyom Zorin the developers behind it all a few questions.
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Howto: Linux and Windows virtualization with KVM and Qemu
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We're going to deliberately sidestep the jargon and the hype to take a practical look at the virtualisation technologies in Ubuntu, in particular KVM and Qemu and the related userspace tools that create and manage virtual machines. Although the discussion centres on Ubuntu, the technology is applicable to all Linux distros.
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FF3.6 on ubuntu is not a reason why GNU/Linux is not ready for the mass-market
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In the article the writer states that it's too difficult to get FF3.6 installed on Ubuntu and that it's reason enough to call GNU/Linux dead on its tracks to get to the mass market.
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EU Approves $7.4 Billion Deal Between Oracle And Sun
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It’s official: the European Commission has granted regulatory approval for Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems for approximately $7.4 billion, without further conditions.
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Richard Stallman: Freedom Campaigner
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An interview with RMS where he talks about the hardware and software he runs
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Slackware 13 Revisit
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In my Slackware 13 review mfillpot gave some suggestions to improve the Slackware experience and I thought I would give them a shot.
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Sourceforge ignores users from several countries
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Sourceforge ignored users from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria saying that it has to deal with USA laws. USA has very hard relationships with those countries, that is why open source, free software, hackers and people loving freedom must suffer, and Sourceforge is not against that.
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How Patent Trolls Harm FOSS and How the European Parliament Plans to Make the Trolls Even Stronger
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Europe not only accommodates patent trolls (even in Belgium) but it also intends to make them more potent thanks to legislation that the Parliament in Brussels in discussing
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Bruce Perens on Open Source Versus Free Software
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Bruce Perens defends Free Software and Richard Stallman
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Also see part 2 and part 3.
Bruce Perens at the launch event of GPLv3
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Ubuntu Developer Week. The Spirit of Ubuntu!
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As the first day of the Ubuntu Developer Week ended just moments ago, I thought I should give my impressions about it. So here goes..
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Graphical Monitor for the Power Consumption of a Laptop in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
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You can see a graph which shows the usage of power over the time since it booted up (it depends on ur hardware support).
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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.
