Addressing a gathering here organised by Swatantra - Samudaya - Swadeshi Software for Suvarna Karnataka, he said children should have access to the source code, the basic programme of the software which would provide them an opportunity to practically learn the working of a software.
Read more »Welcoming a special guest
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BANGALORE: The bustling, overcrowded gullies of Sudarshan Layout’s slum settlement played host to a very high-profile visitor on Saturday afternoon. American software freedom activist, and founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation Richard Matthew Stallman, fondly known as RMS, sat down to tea and interacted with children and volunteers at the Ambedkar Community Computing Centre.
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Why Give Away A CD When You Could Give A Flash Drive?
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Live CDs of various Linux distributions are frequently given away as a way of promoting Linux. It's a great idea, but there is a problem.
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More than 2500 schools in kerala use GNU/Linux ONLY!
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Recently i visited kerala. I visited some of the schools to see free software in action.I posted a small description of my experience.I uploaded quite a number of photos,videos of school children using GNU/Linux.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #121
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #121 for the week December 7th - December 13th, 2008.
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A Gentoo User Gives Debian a Go Around
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A few weeks ago, I installed Debian for the first time on the desktop. Once, a friend and I installed a console-only version on another desktop and we connected remotely to his hosted game server which also ran Debian, so I hoped I should be a bit familiar with it.
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Apache HTTP Server 2.2.11 Released
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"The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.11 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a bug fix release..."
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Creative GNU!
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These were few snaps we took when we were in kerala.We bought GNU letter key chains and we also bought Sea Shells.chkout what's on the shell!!!
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Sugar Labs Joins Conservancy
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Sugar Labs today announced its membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy, an organization of Open Source and Free Software projects.
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Stallman visits slum computing center
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"...While proprietary software companies are like the colonial rulers who exploited the masses, free software is freedom and liberation. Ambedkar Community Computer center is a model for the other parts of the india in such a way that it gives access to computers for the poor without compromising the freedom.
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MinGW and why Linux users should care
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The Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW) project is a way to get GCC and tools like binutils working to build software for the Windows environment—something that might not sound very interesting to Linux users or developers.
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Unix And Linux Humor In Pictures - Does Anyone Else Really Exist?
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Put the computer down and come out with your hands up ;)
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This is Journalism???
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A new announcement which covers Novell's SLERT is ushered in mostly by parroting (maybe plagiarism) from the press
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GnuCash 2.2.8 released
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"The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.8 aka "Crisis-Proof", the eighth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software..."
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Free Software : The current fashion in Kerala
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Kerala is abuzz with free software mantra after the present Government of Kerala formally endorsed free software as one of its natural allies. Lot of common people are showing interest in free software and its bi-products such as copy left books , wikipedia etc. As a long time user of free software, I am pretty amused at the
current hype.
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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.
