A well-known Linux developer moves from Red Hat to Intel. Thus, he can spend more time with family and concentrate his work on low-level kernel-related things.
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2008-2009 Petition to stop software patents in Europe
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"We have signed the Stop Software Patents .eu petition to support their view on serious restrains current software patent legislations cause..."
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Merry Christmas to emacs users
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"Or, how I spent my Christmas vacation. Here are texinfo and info versions of Project Gutenberg's Complete Works of Shakespeare, suitable for use in emacs or with the texinfo program..." -- via texinfo edition of the complete works of Shakespeare
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Complicated relations between Mozilla and Google
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Since Google launched their own browser, Firefox maker's relationship with them has become "more complicated". Mozilla is dependent on Google for the vast majority of its revenue and has previously worked closely with the search king's engineers on the development of Firefox.
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Why I do not use Windows as my primary OS
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Reasoning and background information in regard to what motivated me in ditching MS Windows as platform. Deals with my hearty dislike of drm, Windows shortcomings, business practices of Microsoft, and the benefits of being a Free Software user, etc.
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Noted: The Microsoft-Abramoff Connection
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How Microsoft is associated with the Seattle-based lobby/law firm Preston Gates; Ellis (Bill Gates' father), which employed the infamously-criminal Jack Abramoff.
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Export your Firefox 3.0 full profile to Firefox 3.1 (all addons, themes, cookies, passwords, etc)
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This article explains how to move a full profile (addons, themes, cookies, browsing history, passwords and so on) from Firefox 3.0.x to Firefox 3.1.x beta or any other version, but it also works for synchronizing Firefox on 2 different computers or backing up a full profile of Firefox.
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Is Epiphany ready to replace Firefox?
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I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been hunting some things down for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser, and I was hoping that Epiphany 2.24.1, the current version in Ubuntu Intrepid, was good enough to let me kick out Firefox when version 3.1 comes out.
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Is your toilet economically sustainable?
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"...Today, your government is sponsoring Adobe and Microsoft through the licensing mechanism (by “generously” installing on the public offices’ desks Microsoft+Adobe, rather than Ubuntu), but it should, instead, sponsor the GNU, Debian and FreeBSD projects. These projects form the infrastructure of practical democracy, they embody the free speech in its most accurate form.
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Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part II
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"This is the second part of a three-part article on the famous sed one-liners. This part will explain sed one-liners for selective printing of certain lines. See part one for introduction of the series..."
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Change.org: Free Software for the US Government
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"Change.org (not the same as Change.gov) provides a feature where site members can suggest ideas they’d like to see adopted by the United States Government. One suggestion currently getting attention on the site is to Support the Free Software Movement..."
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Microsoft EEE
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Microsoft's ODF tactics and Netscape; New example of Microsoft 'open source' deception
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Mobile Wikipedia officially launched
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Mobile Wikipedia has been officially launched. The new service allows users to view Wikipedia pages on mobile devices by reformatting Wikipedia content to a simpler format.
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Christmas Jokes for Linux/Unix Geeks
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We hope you've enjoyed the “The 12 Bugs of Software” we've posted last week. As promised, we will keep the tech jokes coming because it's the season to be jolly (falalalala lalalala).Our next set of jokes will surely tickle some of our geeky readers’ funny bones.
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The Threat of Mono as Basis of Applications (or: “Why GIMP is Different”)
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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.
