"Join us at the third annual FSCONS, a meeting place for social change, focused on the future of free software and free society. Open discussion and brainstorming are two of the primary factors that pave the way for change.
Read more »FSCONS 2009 - 13-15 November 2009, Burgårdens Conference Center, Göteborg, Sweden
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Gentoo Ten LiveDVD Testing
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"Attention Gentoo Community, In honor of Gentoo's 10th birthday, we are producing a new livedvd! We need YOU to test it on as many x86 and x86_64 machines as you can and post bugs..."
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NetBSD developer summit in Cambridge/UK
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"On Friday, the 18th of September, a group of NetBSD developers from all over the world met during a developer summit at the Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge/UK. It provided a great opportunity for developers to meet each other in person, to share ideas and to talk about ongoing and future projects..."
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Rails Summit Latin America 2009
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"...This year they want to repeat the success with the 2nd edition of the Summit. It’s going to happen at the same place, in Sao Paulo City, Brazil. They expect to see people through out South America..."
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European Commission Learns Whether Patents Harm Europe
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The European authorities no longer take patenting for granted; the situation is still more complex in the US
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Django Master Class, October 16, 2009
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"Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django's lead developers, will give a whirlwind tour of advanced Django tips and tricks. The focus will be on the techniques you'll need to develop mature Django applications. We'll discuss the kinds of issues that arise as applications increase in scope and scale, and look at common problems in large Django projects and how to solve them..."
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Active development on Linux-libre
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Active development on Linux-libre, a fork of the Linux kernel which removes non-free software components
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Study: Open source software is improving
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The code analysis tools vendor, Coverity, has released the 2009 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source ReportPDF. The survey, which was originally initiated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006, examines the integrity and quality of open source software.
Read more »KDE's Google Summer of Code 2009 Report: Huge Success
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Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success for KDE this year. 37 out of 38 projects were finished successfully. Much of the work done during these projects is already merged into trunk and will be available for the users with the KDE 4.4 release in January 2010. Each student quickly presents his work done during the summer holidays.
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Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)
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This tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. BKO allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora.
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This methode wil install a simple webserver in The same directory where you apply the python command. The command will read automaticly the index.html page . if there is no index.html will list the contents of the directory
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Is free software major league or minor?
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Is free software really capable of serving end users or not? This issue has political consequences, which is part of what makes it important: either free software is "minor league" or it's "major league". Which we believe has a big impact on what our expectations can be and what our political and ethical stance towards proprietary and free software should be.
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Going minimal on my Ubuntu desktop
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Although it was out of character for me, I was an early adopter of a netbook. That netbook served me well for a couple of years, but I recently upgraded to a model running Ubuntu. Anyway, I ran into a problem common to many netbook users:
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Richard Stallman on Software Patents
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"In this insightful discussion, international Free Software advocate Richard Stallman (RMS) will argue that software patents seriously and significantly obstruct software development..."
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IBM Pressured to Help Advance Desktop GNU/Linux in the West
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Can IBM be persuaded to push desktop GNU/Linux further? Some people think so.
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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.
