"Two whirlwinds blew into Buenos Aires this week: the hundreds of Wikipedia supporters, editors and administrators here for their annual Wikimania conference, and the free-software activist Richard Stallman, who was in town as part of his never-ending tour of the globe to promote his cause..."
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P2P vs. Hollywood
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« By way of caveat, let me get out front with the admission that this review involves mainly aspects of the “future history” scenario I find most intriguing, rather than with the story line or characters.While I can get into a good story, I generally read near-future sci fi with a view primarily to the usable ideas for organizing society or for explaining the direction things are going in...
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Slackware 13 Released
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Yes it's that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.0!
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Windows 7 Sins Letter Donation
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"We've mailed a letter to 499 of the Fortune 500 companies (we didn't think Microsoft would listen), but that's just the start..."
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SELF News August 2009
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1. End of the EC funded period - Wouter Tebbens (FKI)
2. News from the development team - Nagarjuna G. (HBCSE)
3. UOC to use SELF at their new Master Programme on Free Software...
4. FKI and UOC setting up the Free Technology Academy - David Jacovkis (UOC)
5. Vía Libre collaborates in the organisation of Wikimania 2009
6. Join SELF!
HTML 5 - W3C Working Draft 25 August 2009
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"This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
Read more »Secure VoIP, GNU SIP Witch, and replacing Skype with free software
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"For the last few years I had been working when time was available on what is called the GNU Telephony Secure Calling Initiative.This initiative was originally started specifically to make passive voice communication intercept a thing of the past using free software and public standards, and came out of ideas from and the work of the New York City civil liberties community and New York Fair Use in
Read more »Gnutiken - International GNU Cooperative Sweden
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Since I ended my internship with the FSFE in May, my main priority has been the establishing of a Free Software cooperative in Göteborg. The result is about to unfold itself, and it’s name is Gnutiken, or “the Gnutique” if you want to be English about it.
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Fade Out Images with GIMP
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Follow this simple GIMP howto to learn how to fade out the edges of images and give them some of that fancy Web 2.0 look.
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4 Linux Books For Beginners
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Here are 4 Linux books which are ideal for a beginner:
1. A Newbie’s Initiation To Linux – Download (1.90MB)
2. Introduction to Linux – A hands on guide – Download (1.52MB)
3. Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference – Download (2.13MB)
4. GNU/Linux Command−Line Tools Summary – Download (682.45KB)
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Vista User on SimplyMEPIS 8.0.10
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Lets take a closer look at how intuitive the SimplyMEPIS 8.0.10 Live CD really is for a Windows user. I’ve introduced SimplyMEPIS to a lifelong Windows user and documented the “cans” and “can nots” of his first 2 hours on this Linux distribution.
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Help prevent the introduction of Internet filtering in Australia
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The Australian Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist. Please sign the petition below...
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Exaile 0.3.0 Has Finally Been Released
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(Screenshot of Exaile 0.3.0a3)
Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players including iPods, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists. It is kind of a Gnome Amarok (If I may call it that...).
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How Many People Must Die Before Abandoning Windows?
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Hospitals given another reason to give Windows the kick; Vista 7 fails to improve security
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Why Has Nokia's Netbook Got Windows, Not Linux?
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We knew Nokia had a netbook up its sleeve, but why go with Microsoft Windows? Because Nokia's user interface skills aren't good enough, and Linux would delay it, says Peter Judge
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Read contents from Free Software Magazine
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.
