"Emacs comes with a nice terminal emulator called ansi-term. Using M-x ansi-term, you can run shells and other terminal programs from within emacs, and the emulation is good enough even for 'graphical' console programs. For example, I am using the mutt mailer and slrn news reader with ansi-term.
Read more »Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer
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"The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident..."
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World-wide Internet censorship
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RMS: « The Clown regime wants world-wide Internet censorship.
It also wants to increase the danger of the UK's dangerous libel laws, which already chill free speech by making it so easy to win a judgment against criticism. »
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A holiday plea
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"Shortly before the holidays I made donations to three organizations: the Free Software Foundation, Wikipedia, and Creative Commons. If you'll kindly indulge me for a minute, I'll explain why I think the work of these organizations is so important to an open internet and a free and properous society. Consider giving whatever you can spare (whenever you can spare it) to one of these groups..."
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How ODF is Like JDK: Why Microsoft Supports ODF 1.1 and Not ODF 1.2
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Bill Gates snubbed JDK 1.2 and chose the older version, 1.1, instead
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What’s wrong with Microsoft Windows Vista? - by John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation
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"...There is a battle underway between those who value freedom, and corporations such as Microsoft who wish to profit by taking that freedom away. DRM and absurd licenses are at the heart of that battle. Please join us on the side of freedom by saying NO not just to Windows Vista and other DRM-enabled products, but to proprietary software in general.
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Linux rapidshare downloader
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Slimrat is an easy to use rapidshare downloader which can be used from command line or GUI. It can download files from these services: rapidshare.com, depositfiles.com, youtube.com, leteckaposta.cz, fast-load.net, mediafire.com
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Free Software and Education - RMS video
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Richard Stallman addressed the students and staff on "Free Software and Education" on 16-12-2008 at the campus of Christ University, Bangalore.
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The Free Software Movement and the Struggle for Freedom of Thought
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Eben Moglen addressed the students and staff of Christ University, Bangalore, on the topic of "The Free Software Movement and the Struggle for Freedom of Thought" on 12-12-2008 in the Main auditorium of the Christ University campus.
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Ubuntu Enrolls At Cornell College
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Cornell College of Mount Vernon, Iowa is the latest institute of higher education to embrace Ubuntu Server Edition, WorksWithU has learned. It’s not a huge deployment, but Cornell’s targeted Ubuntu use reinforces a growing trend at colleges and universities worldwide, according to the WorksWithU 1000 — a survey that aims to track one thousand Ubuntu deployments.
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Alan Cox and the End of an Era
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In the beginning, free software was an activity conducted on the margins - using spare time on a university's computers, or the result of lonely bedroom hacking.
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Debian Seeking New Project Secretary
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Current balloting for Debian Lenny's future has led to strife in the organization. Secretary of the free project, Manoj Srivastava, has resigned his position. A possible consequence is that the next version will undergo further delay in its release.
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OpenSUSE 11.1: Evolution dependent on Mono
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Any .1 release of a Linux distribution is generally meant to fix bugs which were present in the .0 release, not to introduce new features.
In this respect, OpenSUSE 11.1 differs sharply from other distributions. And the news is not all good either. Novell acolytes please note, this is NOT a review, just some sundry observations.
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Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges Microsoft Still Does This
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A person whom Microsoft employed to train shills (TEs) spills the beans on Microsoft; People who are responsible also named
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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.
