It's always been possible to port your application into any Linux distribution. All you had to do was know how to compile and link your program with each distribution's libraries and then package it up in either DEB or RPM package. Easy! Right? Right??
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ESP launches en.swpat.org: A Wiki for Anti-Software Patent Campaigns
"Monday, May 4th, 2009 — End Software Patents today launched en.swpat.org, a wiki to document the case against software patents. Over 100 articles have already been started to give an idea of the scope and structure of the wiki..."
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Gimp Paint Studio [Gimp Optimized for Drawing and Painting]
Gimp Paint Studio is a package of new tools and additions which provide improved capabilities focused on drawing and painting for Gimp.
To install Gimp Paint Studio it, first we must know where the user directory of Gimp is located. Assuming you have installed version 2.6 is usually found at:
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The setting Sun: responses to the acquisition
Oracle's acquisition of Sun raised a lot of questions about the future of Sun's core technologies. Oracle says that it is committed to Solaris and Java, but some open source advocates are concerned about the implications for OpenOffice.org and MySQL. Ars looks at how Oracle and members of the open source software community have responded to the acquisition.
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Linux Administrator's Security Guide
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Open source comes to the cloud
Open source specialist SugarCRM has developed the Sugar Open Cloud, an on-demand open platform. "Parts of open source and parts of the cloud come together," explained Martin Schneider.
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Don't fall for the monoculture myth
The idea that there's more security in using less popular software is not only false, but a smokescreen to solving the real security issues
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The Path to Mono-free GNOME-based Distributions is Foreseeable
Replacements for widespread Mono applications just keep on coming
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TORCS: 3D Racing car game
If you like car racing games than TORCS is for you. The Open Racing Car Simulator (TORCS) is a great game that has a lot of tracks and it has realistic graphics.
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Top 7 Reasons People Quit Linux
I've heard a lot of excuses why people quit Linux, and return to Windows. I'm happy to say that the excuses are getting far less common nowadays, compared to 2003.
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BIND 10 starts development
The Internet Systems Consortium has announced that it has received enough support from sponsors to launch the BIND 10 project, to create a replacement name server for BIND 9. BIND 9 began its development in 1998 and is the most widely used DNS server software on the Internet. Among the sponsors are the UK's Nominet and Germany's DENIC.
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General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
Europe's software patents cartel is rearmed. Another look at the TomTom/FAT case, GE's new role in Europe, and growing opposition to software patents
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Join us to Stop! the Regulations - Why Researchers Should use the GPL
"The Minister of Science and Technology proposes to include a set of Regulations in the Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, section 17, that will result in dire consequences for the research sector in South Africa in particular and all South Africans in general, by stifling local innovation and access to knowledge. These Regulations must be stopped!
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Here's a list of great applications for the KDE 4 desktop such as Yakuake, Amarok 2, and SMPlayer.
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Find the distance of other users on Twitter
A command line program to find the distance of other Twitter users and post the result to your Twitter account.
Uses Guile to script a network protocol.
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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.



