"The SELF Platform is a web platform for the collaborative construction, editing, remixing and translation of educational materials. It is an educator-centric production environment for learner-centric materials. To ensure the spirit of collaboration all materials are under a free license, which can be used, reused, modified and distributed freely.
Read more »A Call for Freedom in the Engineering Classroom: Why Universities should adopt The SELF Platform
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Why hardware manufacturers don't want to share specification
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Harald Welte shares his interesting opinnion about why hardware manufacturers do not like and want to share their products's specfifications.
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serena@ghost webcomic
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Self plug alert!
I've been writing a web comic called serena@ghost, which is about a GNU/Linux geek. The big difference between my comic and other web comics is that I've been releasing the Inkscape SVG source under the GPL 3. It's been running for a little over a year now, and I'd like to see what the people here think of it.
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HackLabTO’s Lisp Machine Keyboard
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"After years of sitting in storage, my deadbeat ex-housemate’s old Symbolics XL1200 Lisp Machine has found a new home: HackLabTO, located in Accordion City’s Kensington Market neighbourhood.
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"I accidentally discovered mozrepl today. It’s clearly designed for JavaScript development, but I thought it might be interesting for HTML development as well, and hacked the following together: ..."
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FOSS Gaming Survey - Help improve the status of gaming on Linux
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Are you a PC gamer? Do you play FOSS Video Games?
The goal of this survey is to get a deeper understanding of the current general perception of Free and Open Source gaming.
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 11, December/January 2009
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* LibrePlanet Conference 2009!
* FSF files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
* BadVista: We hardly knew ye
* GCC libraries get updated license exception
* An open response to Chris Frey regarding GFDL 1.3
* Updating the Free Software Definition
* More background about the Cisco case
* The bootable membership cards are (finally) here!
* 3D graphics are 100% free software
HOP: A Language for Programming the Web 2.0
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"HOP is a new Software Development Kit for the Web 2.0. It relies a new higher-order language for programming interactive web applications such as multimedia applications (web galleries, music players, ...), office applications (web agendas, mail clients, ...), ubiquitous domotics, etc. HOP can be viewed as a replacement for traditional graphical toolkits.
Read more »Tip: Commands To Find Out The Shell You Are Using
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Many times you might not be sure about which shell you are currently using. Especially if you are not on your system and logging into someone else’s, or maybe ssh’ing into a remote server. Worry not, because here are few simple commands that you can use to find out which shell you are using currently.
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Simulate This - City Building Tycoon Game Reviews
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Welcome to a Free Gamer special! People often accuse the Free software and open source game sphere of lacking depth, that there are few good games. In 2009 Free Gamer is dedicated to dispelling this myth.
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One of MySQL founders leaves Sun Microsystems
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Michael "Monty" Widenius, one of two founders and main developers of MySQL leaves Sun Microsystems with several other ones. He will continue to develop MySQL independently. The main reason is disagreement with Sun's development politic that allows releases (that will be production ready) to have known serious bugs.
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Free Software Magazine's evolution = no more issues
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You have in your virtual hands the last issue of Free Software Magazine. But, this doesn't mean that FSM is closing down - in fact, quite the opposite. However, things are changing. Let me explain.
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Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again
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Mozilla has delayed the third beta of Firefox 3.1 for the second time this month, a company executive said on Thursday, citing troublesome bugs in the browser's new JavaScript engine as the reason.
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10 Tips for Writing Efficient Bash Scripts
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Bash is the default command line interface for many Linux distributions and a powerful scripting language. Here are some suggestions that will keep your Bash scripts efficient and lean. Feel free to comment with your own suggestions.
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Colemak Keyboard Layout - Better Than QWERTY, Better Than Dvorak
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Colemak was designed after the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts were designed. In fact, of the three, it’s the only keyboard layout that was designed after computers were invented. Colemak is free and licensed under the Public Domain
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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.
