The other day I was looking for a game and Freeciv caught my eye. There are a number of ways to get it for Ubuntu:
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Microsoft and Obama Join Hands and Attack Web Standards, Exclude GNU/Linux Users
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Obama's inauguration in Microsoft Silverlight; no access to GNU/Linux users
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John Goerzen on Why You Should Learn Haskell
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"John Goerzen is a co-author of Real World Haskell. In a recent interview with O'Reilly, he explained how the book came to be, the special magic which makes Haskell worth learning, and how to change your mindset to make learning possible..."
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Rinari Screencast (Ruby on Rails development with Emacs): Why need to promote Free Media Formats
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"A short screencast demonstrating the use of Rinari (an Emacs minor-mode for rails development).
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Qt Software (formerly Trolltech) will add an LGPL licensing option for Qt 4.5, due to ship in March. Together with a new policy of opening Qt source code repositories to the public, the more permissive license option should increase the cross-platform GUI application framework's popularity, says the company.
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Unofficial XULRunner 1.9.1 Builds
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"It’s taking a while to get nightly XULRunner 1.9.1 builds available. At this point, I’d like to have nightly XULRunner 1.9.2 builds available too. In order to help anyone that really wants to start building against XULRunner 1.9.1, I made some unofficial runtime and SDK builds..."
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The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users
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Using free and open source software (FOSS), advocates like to say, is not a popularity contest. It's about doing what's right. However, the Debian and Ubuntu Popularity Contest projects might disagree.
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Why European Commission misses the point of Free Society: Opera always irrelevant on GNU systems
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"Following its investigation of Opera Software ASA’s antitrust complaint, the European Commission confirmed today that it sent Microsoft a Statement of Objections yesterday, accusing it of illegally tying Internet Explorer to the Windows PC operating system..."
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Photos From The Golden Age Of Computing
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Remember when things weren't so darned complicated? ;)
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Psst! Pass it on!
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"Thanks to everyone who has already helped us get the word out about our year-end fund drive! Posting the FSF widget on your website is a fairly simple thing to do, but it turns out that it's very effective! We've already gotten 24 new members during our year-end drive through member referrals that came in through widgets.
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The Tor Project announces that it has removed all bugs that Coverity Scan had found in its software.
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Microsoft’s EDGI in India: Fighting GNU/Linux in Education
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Revelation of monopoly abuse by Microsoft in India, with evidence which is aligned against press coverage of MoUs
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Building a Community Around Your F/OSS Project
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It is not uncommon to read about projects that are suffering from lack of development resources. Let's be honest: no project has 'enough' people, ever. There's always something else that could be getting done 'if only we had another pair of hands!' Some projects suffer more than others, however.
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Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III
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"This is the third and final part of an article on the famous sed one-liners. This part will explain sed one-liners for selective deletion of certain lines and special applications of sed. See part one for introduction of the series..."
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Launchpad's License Will Be AGPLv3
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"Last week, I asked Karl Fogel, Canonical's newly hired Launchpad Ombudsman, if Launchpad will use the AGPLv3. His eyes said “yes” but his words were something like: "Canonical hasn't announced the license choice yet".
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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.
