Firebird 2.1.3 is a patch release addressing several bugs that have surfaced since the original v.2.1 and the v.2.1.2 sub-release some months ago.
This patch release includes no new functionality but the following issues should be noted
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Using Vte Terminal Emulating Widget
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Here is a sample code for using VTE Terminal Emulating widget. Vte terminal widget of GTK can be used to embed a terminal in your GTK program. Vte widget is used in many projects like the Synaptic package manager to shown package installation's terminal output.Also, much of GNOME Terminal's functionality is provided by the VTE widget. Here is how you can start using the widget
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Using GDB with Emacs
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People starting to program with GNU/Linux often asks whether there exist a good IDE in GNU/Linux world. Well, there are; like the Eclipse, nothing comes in front of Emacs. Here is how GDB (GNU Debugger) can be used with Emacs.
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Microsoft unleashes retail talking points attacking Linux, Macs
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I'd seen the Linux presentation, apparently there's a Mac one out there too.
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Microsoft and A Patent Checkmate of My Dreams
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Microsoft tried to auction off some patents that they claim relate to Linux. Patent trolls could have bought them. Instead Open Invention Network (OIN) got them. Why would Microsoft wish to get rid of 22 patents that it presumably could sue Linux over? Let's try to imagine what might have happened.
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Public denounced ICANN
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RMS: « The organizations of non-commercial users of the Internet denounced ICANN for giving too much weight to the interests of business. This is what happens under governments in which democracy has been corrupted by business power. »
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Osama Khalid is the first GNU Generation member of the month
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Congratulations to Osama Khalid (OsamaK) for being selected as the first ever GNU Generation member of the month! Osama speaks Arabic natively, and has been using this gift to help the free software community. He worked with projects including KDE and VLC this past month to translate popular applications into Arabic.
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sK1 Ubuntu Repository (Vector Graphics Editor For Linux)
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A few months ago I was telling you about sK1, an open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Freehand. At the time, you had to compile it, but now (actually it exists for quite some time, but I wasn't aware of it) there is an Ubuntu repository from where you can install the latest version.
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Switch distributions – Keep your files & settings
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I have been a GNU/Linux user for a year now, and in this time I changed 4-5 distributions. In this process, even when reinstalling the same distro, I wasn’t aware that I could keep the settings and configurations of my applications. The secret is the /home folder, where the GNU/Linux Operating Systems keep the data of the user, the configuration files of the applications installed and much more.
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New Anti-Linux Propaganda from Microsoft
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Screenshots obviously conditioning PC sales personnel to lie about Linux have been discovered in a US forum hosting Windows 7 training modules.
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Open Source but no Open Mind
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I've been an Open Source user and advocate for years. When I started using Linux, KDE was the desktop that I discovered, as it was the default desktop for Suse. I quickly learned to appreciate KDE 3.3 and I have upgraded my KDE desktop up until release 3.5.10.
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Comments, comments, comments!
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If you have the desire to be a part of this community, help it grow and make it more worthwhile and valuable to others, please comment as much as possible, whenever and wherever you can.
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Linux and Digital Rights Management (DRM)
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The principles of open source software and the film and record companies' perceived need to control how film, video and audio recordings are consumed seem incompatible. This article explores the issues.
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Microsoft 'indoctrinates' Best Buy workers with anti-Linux 'lies'
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Microsoft (MFST) is "indoctrinating" Best Buy (BBY) workers to sell its highly anticipated Windows 7 operating system using outright lies about the performance of open-source competitor Linux, according to Linux experts and at least one Best Buy employee who has seen the alleged Microsoft training slides.
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Why intellectual property is such a confusing concept
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An article explaining the practical reasons behind the concept of material property and lack of such behind the concept of intellectual property.
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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.
