Three days after Google told an independent developer to stop bundling proprietary applications with his alternative Android operating system, fans of the popular package have shot back with plans to work around the move.
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When is it GNU/Linux and when is it not?
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Of the many controversies in free software, this is one that I have long found to be interesting. People seem to define things in different ways, which leads to confusion (and arguing) when one person calls a system a "GNU/Linux" system and the next calls it just the "Linux" system.
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How to Create and Modify ISO Images in Ubuntu 9.04
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You can create and Modify ISO9660 files (iso images) graphicaly in ubuntu by using an open source Linux applicatio
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Install Prism on Linux for easy to use web apps
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If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn't it be nice if you can just use small web apps for these needs?
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Google throws the ‘open’ out of ‘open-source’ by shutting down Android mod
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Well, it was nice while it lasted. With Android, Google had promised us the ideal of a truly open-source mobile operating system being headed by one of the technology world’s most influential organisations. And now, the company has gone ahead and issued a ‘Cease and Desist’ (C&D) order to one of the most popular Android mods around.
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HD videoconferencing system runs Linux
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Later this week, Panasonic Communications plans to ship a full HD videoconferencing system that incorporates embedded Linux and Nokia's Qt cross-platform development/UI framework.
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With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?
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Another quick analysis of how Microsoft "bear-hugs" the "Open Source" community to advance technical and political goals
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How to: Build a Wireless Bridge Using DD-WRT, Part I
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In the real world, a bridge connects two land masses, often separated by water. In wireless networking, a bridge is used to connect two local area networks (or LAN's) separated by, well, air.
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The Rubygame Book Part 1 - 6 Rewrite
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It is my pleasure to announce the complete rewrite of part 1 through part 6 of The Rubygame Book. This rewrite of the book restart the tutorial to focus immensely more on the foundation. While this mean some of the most immediate gratifying parts are gone, the new tutorial include some new tricks and tips that help developers write Rubygame application faster and with shaper focus.
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Without Free Software, Open Source Would Lose its Meaning
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I'm a big fan of Matt Asay's writings about free software even though I have been rather dreading the appearance of one that I knew, one day, he would write...because it would be wrong. And now he has written it, with the self-explanatory headline: “Free software is dead. Long live open source.”
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CULTURAL HERITAGE on line - Empowering users: an active role for user communities
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"Following the success of the previous conference in 2006, we are delighted to announce that the 2nd "CULTURAL HERITAGE on line" conference will be hosted by Teatro della Pergola in Florence in December 2009. This conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents..."
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Apache Holds Steady in a Changing Web Server Landscape
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Once upon a time, the monthly Netcraft Web server survey was nice and boring. Regular as clockwork, it showed the complete dominance of Apache in this sector.
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“Open Source is Dead. Long Live Free Software”
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Response to the usual anti-Richard Stallman crowd and their latest incitement against Free software (and to a lesser degree Ubuntu)
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"Ask your candidates" / Now I ask you
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Because of the German federal elections in 2009, FSFE called on all German Free Software supporters to ask the parties’ candidates about their positions on Free Software and Open Standards. FSFE set up a page about the German Bundestagswahl to help asking questions, and to collecting answers.
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Release: GNU Wget 1.12
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"GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc..." — via GNU Wget —
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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.
