"...Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, 12 December 2008 - The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, confirmed the dates and venue for its next annual conference, DebConf 9..."
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Best Linux/FOSS News Websites of 2008 - But no FSDaily anywhere to be seen
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This seems to happen time and time again. I don't understand why people consistently seem to ignore FSDaily when it is (or at least can be) the news chosen by the whole foss community. I also just found out that it ranks higher than all the other news hubs according to alexa.com. If you think FSDaily should be in this list please go comment on the post and vote "None of the above".
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Beranger Sucks!
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As some of you may know, Beranger, a long-time FOSS-lover/’harsh critic’ has ended his love-hate relationship with Linux by announcing to the whole world that he has jumped ship.
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Open Source E-Books for Linux
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Lists of books about: Installation and Getting Started, Security, Sys Admin, Programming, Migration, Kernel, and more
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Wiki-community strives to extend eastward
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"CHENNAI: There are many reasons for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to take interest in India. One of them is the need for balance in socio-geographic perspective in Wiki articles.
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sujith shares his experiences during the Stallman's visit to Bangalore and captures the event with his Canon PowerShot A720 IS camera powered by free software (CHDK ) !
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Wikipedia launches ‘academy’
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Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.com launched the ‘Wikipedia Academy’ here today in a bid to increase its popularity and to reach out to large number of rural masses in the country. 'This is the first in Asia after the launch of the first Academy last month in Germany' Wikipedia.com Founder Jimmy Wales told reporters in Chennai.
Read more »Richard Stallman to visit SJCE
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Richard M. Stallman, founder of Free Software Movement will be visiting the Sri Jayachamarajendra college of Engineering...
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RMS visit to Bangalore
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Friday I left my office as soon as my friend Renukaprasad told me to pick RMS from an auditorium near Reserve Bank of India, where he was listening to a live concert. I took an auto and went to meet Renukaprasad who was there with him. I joined RMS and Dora for the concert. He was loving the Indian classical dance and music. After the concert we moved to the house where he was staying.
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US teacher detains student for using Linux
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A teacher in Austin, Texas has lashed out against the open-source Linux operating system, punishing one of her students for demonstrating and handing out copies of the HeliOS Linux distribution
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GnuTLS 2.6.3
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"We are proud to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.6.3. GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network
security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications. GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many
Unix-like systems..."
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A day with RMS
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"Today RMS visited Bangalore again. This is for the first time I am seeing him. I am bit tired after today's programs. So, I will try to provide a brief summary of the program. I hope you know what RMS will be talking about, so I am not going to those details :) ..."
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UI Prototyping with Emacs
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"Today, though, I'd like to talk about and propose a different approach to User Interface Prototyping: Emacs Artist Mode. Artist mode is a minor Emacs mode that turns an emacs buffer into a canvas you can draw all sorts of geometrical shapes on [...] Let me know how you are using artist mode in your projects..."
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Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II
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"This is the second part of a three-part article on the famous Awk one-liners. This part will explain Awk one-liners for text conversion and substitution..."
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International Lisp Conference 2009 -- Lisp: The Next 50 Years
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"...The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2009 International Lisp Conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sunday through Wednesday, March 22-25, 2009.
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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.
