"The Library of Alexandria, Egypt, is holding a three-day workshop to introduce judges, lawyers, and researchers from Egypt and the Arab world to new tools for the dissemination of knowledge.
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The Enemies List
My reply to Mono Enemies List controversy - which will no doubt re-start the flame wars.
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IBM has claimed that software patents help free software !
"This page documents companies whose main business is not free software, but who try to claim to represent free software so they can push a pro-software-patent agenda..."
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Trisquel hackers promised to make ext4 default in next release
"Our next release will use ext4 as default, to achieve the same performance without this downside. I'll create a "next release features" wiki page starting with this one, so I'm closing the bug now."
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The Kernel Newbie Corner: "initrd" and "initramfs"--What's Up With That?
This week, I'm not going to write a formal column so much as just free associate a bit regarding an exchange we had recently on the Kernel Newbies mailing list regarding the ideas of initrd and initramfs, and what they're for and, most importantly, how they differ.
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7 Steps to Better Tables of Contents in OpenOffice.org Writer
Like other word processes, OpenOffice.org Writer makes creating tables of contents (ToCs) quick and easy. Unfortunately, it also works with unaesthetic defaults and allows you to make choices that complicate your work flow rather than improving it.
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Rudel: a collaborative editing environment for GNU Emacs
"Rudel is a collaborative editing environment for GNU Emacs. It supports multiple backends to enable communication with other collaborative editors using different protocols (most notably Gobby)..."
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Tux in Free Gaming
Tux is the offical mascot of the Linux kernel and is a widely known symbol among the Linux and free software community. He is short, fat, and has yellow duck-like flippers and a beak. He was designed by Larry Ewing based on a suggestion by Alan Cox and he was named by James Hughes. He represents no known penguin, but he most looks the most like a little/fairy penguin.
Read more »Emacs: Org-mode release 6.31
"Hi, I have released Org-mode 6.31. Biggest news is the inclusion of Org-babel. Thanks to Eric Schulte and Dan Davison for their work on this..."
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Mark Shuttleworth's Radical Vision
Mark Shuttleworth delivered the closing keynote at this year's inaugural Linuxcon. He delivered an enticing vision of the future of Linux and Free software, with a catch-- it means breaking drastically from the old ways. Carla Schroder reports on the highlights of his keynote, and readers can view the keynote as well.
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Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer" released
The Amarok team is excited to announce the release of Amarok 2.2. In three and a half months, Amarok has made a huge leap forward, gaining many new features and a lot of old features from 1.4 have returned.
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Remotely Accessing Your Linux Computer: Part 1
This is the first part in a four part series coving remote access to Linux machines using SSH.
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Red Hat Files its Bilski Brief: Asks Supreme Ct. to Exclude Software From Patentability
I have exciting news for you. Red Hat has just filed
its brief [PDF] in Bilski, and it's saying things you certainly have been hoping someone would express to the Supreme Court.
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Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems
"We're often asked why we don't endorse a particular system—usually a popular GNU/Linux distribution. The short answer to that question is that they don't follow the free system distribution guidelines. But since it isn't always easy to see how a particular system fails to follow the guidelines, we still get these questions.
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Microsoft Dodges Patent Law Again, Moblin and Patents Revisited
Microsoft shows that patent law continues to be a single-edged sword hurting the small inventor; what software patents mean to Intel and Moblin
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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.



