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Read more »FSF announces LibrePlanet 2010 free software community conference: March 19-21
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"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the 2010 dates for its LibrePlanet international free software community conference.
Read more »The Open-PC: one step closer to open-hardware
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At the Gran Canaria Open Desktop Summit in July 2009, the Open-PC project was announced. The statement said the project aimed to "cooperatively design a Free Software based computer by and for the community". Further this PC would use only hardware for which there are free software drivers available. This would be a PC with the minimal compromise required for running a free desktop.
Read more »The GNU Writing Movement - News: this project has wound down...
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"This project has been largely inactive since 2002 so the GNU Project Volunteer Coordinators have agreed to start coordinating documentation activity. If you'd like to help GNU become better documented, please send a message to ..."
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Novell Gives Money to the Scandalous SYS-CON (Behind Attacks on Groklaw et al)
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Novell is providing funds to a very controversial network that distorts the SCO case, defames its critics, and grossly abuses netiquette
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Tor anonymity network infrastructure cracked
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In early January Tor's two of the seven servers that run directory authorities were compromised, along with a new server recently seted up to serve metrics data and graphs. The three servers have since been reinstalled with service migrated to other servers. There are fresh identity keys for the two directory authorities, which is why users need to upgrade.
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Patents or Life
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Contradiction between values of patents (mortality) and values of sharing (morality)
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Microsoft Tries to Pollute Standards with Software Patents Where It is Illegal
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In both Europe and in India, Microsoft is trying to exclude Free software with patent tax inside basic interoperability information
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A Monument for Bruno
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Last week, I was notified that a long-time Linux Advocate is dying. I started my Linux career much later than most of you. I had to have a source of reference...a table where I could study this and learn as quickly as I could. I found it at brunolinux.
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Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists
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Failure to understand the true role of patents, especially at the government level; pharmaceutical industry veteran admits the patent lie; IPCom officially loses patent crusade
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Firefox 3.6 released!
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Firefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Maemo.
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Install - upgrade to Firefox 3.6 final from repository on Ubuntu |Opensuse|Linux
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Firefox 3.6 Final is available for download. The new version Firefox 3.6 offers a good number of improvements and new features. The Mozilla team claims the release is 20 percent faster than its six month old predecessor and offers advancements in email, photo uploads, video and social networking.
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Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be terminated on February 15th
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«One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias "lenny" and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias "etch" the security support for the old distribution (4.0 alias "etch") is coming to an end next month. The Debian project is proud to be able to support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new version has been released...»
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icecat 3.6
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"I have uploaded a pre-release version of IceCat 3.6, if there will not be major problems, at the beginning of next week I'll make an official release. Please report on this mailing list any problem you may encounter..."
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Command Line Basics: Count Files
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There may be an occasion where you want to count the number of files in a directory in GNU/Linux. Here are a few simple commands to get the job done.
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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.
