"A first book has been published by the SELF Project. Introduction to Free Software has been produced together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) with a number of recognised authors on the subjects of Free Software.
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Firefox gets Porno Mode
I guess it had to happen, after IE8 added a Porn User Mode, and now Firefox has got one as well. Is this a good thing?
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European Commission publishes guidelines on the procurement of FOSS
The Open Source Repository and Observatory (OSOR), a new site sponsored by the European Commission to foster the exchange of FOSS related information and software among European public administrations, recently published guidelines on the procurement of open source software.
Read more »Graziano Sorbaioli on Free Software Computer Campaign
Graziano Sorbaioli is the man behind the Free Software Computer Campaign. All he wants is summed up in just few words "DELL, we want a free software computer". This post is excerpts from an email conversation with Sorbaioli about the ideas behind this campaign.
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Million’s of Linux Users, they can’t all be experts.
Recently Internetnews.com had a story that Canonical the company behind the Linux distribution Ubuntu, estimates that 8 million plus people use it’s popular operating system.
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Free Culture Swimming Upstream
"It is one thing for the relatively nascent Wikipedia to embrace free culture as a way to create and share new cultural works, but it is another thing for established media players constrained by traditional markets and economic forces to embrace free culture..."
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Synfig: the free software alternative for 2D animation
Synfig increases the 2D animation software available with a brilliant and professional piece of software.
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Democratizacion of Knowledge, P2P alternatives and more in Ecuador
"...What I found most inspiring in the conference, was the discovery that the free software movement in Latin America is not just a technical movement, but a real social movement, with a very high political awareness. I never had this experience..."
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How Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS, Ever
O'Reilly Media recently interviewed Greg about his claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has, as well as why binary-only drivers are illegal, and how the kernel development process works.
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Switching your kids to Linux
Based on some of the feedback on my previous postings, there seems to be some interest in this topic. I'm sure that this is more like Perl than Python (there is more than one way to do it), but this is how I managed it....
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Desktop Linux tidal wave alert
In 2009, more Linux-powered desktops will sell than will Windows-powered ones. Sounds crazy doesn't it? Think again.
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Dillo 2.0 is fast, but limited
The lightweight Dillo Web browser, in development for eight years, has always been a contender for the fastest browser available on GNU/Linux -- so much so that the Google's Chrome will have to be pretty nimble to outpace it.
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A Short Summary of FSCONS 2008
Already in the preparation stages of FSCONS it became clear that we had something good and unique going. With the aim of making it a social event that bridges between the different movements working for digital freedom, we tried to construct a multifaceted but unified program that in large part emphasized the social aspects.
Read more »Germany: 'Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest'
Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.
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Freedom Is For People
"I have previously argued that we should talk about "freedom" rather than "openness" because the former provides a guide for action whereas the latter ultimately just confuses people [...] All of these metaphors or frameworks turn the conversation from individual freedom to supra-human systems.
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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.





