I had the opportunity of listening to a presentation by a poorly-informed faculty member at my school regarding copyright laws. This was an eye-opening experience for me into the way those who believe to have a solid grasp of copyright view it. My class of 30+ students listened intently, believing everything they were told, as Mrs. Smith started her lecture…
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The GNOME Journal, May Edition
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The GNOME Journal is back. A brand new issue has just been published. It features an interview with Stormy Peters, a look at the GConf Configuation System, and editorial on GNOME 3.0.
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PC-BSD 7.1 Galileo - Review
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The world of open-source desktop revolves mainly around Linux. Still, there are several other players that you may want to consider as your desktop distribution. One of them is PC-BSD.
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State of the GNU/Linux Desktop 2009 Part 2/4: Hardware Support
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As mentioned in part one of this series, despite the legendary pace of development in the Open Source community, it can be difficult to keep tabs on what is being worked on. Arguably, multimedia is just a subdivision of hardware support, another area where Free operating systems have suffered.
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Gnote Finds Its Way Into Debian and Ubuntu?
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A FAVOURITE project of ours, Gnote, has just achieved another major milestone/release, which constitutes a potential migration away from Novell's troublesome Mono. The new software is already being pushed for inclusion in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and Debian GNU/Linux too.
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Attention NoScript users
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"...Clearly, NoScript is moving from the gray area of adware into dark black area of scareware, making money at user’s expense at any cost..."
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send a twitter message from command line with bti
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bti allows you to send twitter messages right from the command line. It works with both twitter.com and identi.ca. To use this program install the Ubuntu package with the same name (sudo apt-get install bti).
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Linux Journal Announces Winners of its 2009 Readers' Choice Awards
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Linux Journal's annual Readers' Choice Awards take the pulse of the Linux community, allowing readers to choose their favorites in a number of categories.
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Top 7 Reasons People Quit Linux
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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. Here are the top seven.
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Windows 7 leaves netbook market open for Linux
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Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 7 will leave much of the burgeoning netbook market open for Linux because of its relatively large footprint.
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Novell on Gray's Amicus Motion: He isn't really supporting us, it's untimely and irrelevant
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Novell has filed a response to Wayne Gray's Motion asking if he can file an "amicus" brief. The introduction says it all...
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Leaving Novell and Leaving SUSE
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THE developer of GNote [1-6], who has worked for Novell until recently, is moving to Fedora.
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Microsoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
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The latest developments in Microsoft's subversive battle against better-priced (and simply better) competition
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Just Say No: How Drugs Affect Computer Gaming AI
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War is Hell. Unless you're not all there ;) This soldier needs to snap out of it ;)
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Red Hat plans more hiring after adding 600 employees
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Despite the worst recession in decades, Linux giant Red Hat added 600 employees to its rolls during the 12 months that ended Feb. 28, and the Raleigh company anticipates more hiring going forward.
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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.
