"I could not find an Emacs command reference arranged by category so I wrote a Python script to create one. Here is the original index sorted by command name. Below is the index sorted by category..."
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Supporting your free software? Don't burn out
Not long ago I watched a free software developer totally lose his cool with a user who (admittedly very frustratingly) posted a 'bug report'in Spanish on an English-language project that amounted to 'it doesn't work'.
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Blog Action Day: Free Software & Poverty
What does Free Software have to do with ending poverty? More than you probably think. It is not just at the core of consumer products like the Android loaded G1 phone from HTC, or the One Laptop Per Child XO.
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Anal Data Rentention: No Thank You!
"No Data Retention - We want to stop Data Retention of the type that is being imposed on us by the E.U. Directive 2006/24/EC because it is a preemptive surveillance of communication structures: ..."
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Swatantra Free Culture Showcase
"This idea has been inspired by the UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase. We want to address various social, cultural, political and technologically relevant issues and we want to shake things up a little bit.
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"As I explained in my previous Emacs tutorial on killing a block of text, it is sometimes hard to find easy to understand documentation on how to use emacs. One of the first things I wanted to learn how to do in Emacs was block editing..."
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New Archos 5, 7 firmware adds OGG / FLAC support, fixes bugs
"We noticed a few problems with the firmware on the Archos 5 we got our hands on last month, and it now looks like the company is going some way towards addressing a few of those complaints with its latest update, and it's thrown in a few goodies for good measure. The biggest of those is added support for OGG and FLAC formats..."
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Ubuntu's Balancing Act
One thing that has always struck me in the free software world is the power of example. Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there could be no more argument about the latter's suitability for the enterprise.
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Firefox 3.1 beta 1 adds support for OGG formats
"Big boost to the PlayOGG campaign coming from Firefox:
«This is the first beta from Mozilla to include support for the and elements. This beta includes support for the OGG Theora and OGG Vorbis formats on all platforms» ..."
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Gtalk on GNU/Linux Desktop Google
This article introduces Empathy, a new Instant Messaging client in
GNU/Linux which supports Google Talk, Yahoo, Jabber and several other
IM protocols. Empathy is now a default application in GNOME-2.24 and
available in all the latest release of popular GNU/Linux distributions
like Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.
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Portrait: Eric von Hippel, user innovation, and FOSS
A common charge against free and open source software (FOSS) is that it lacks the ability to innovate. To that charge, the lifelong research of Eric von Hippel, professor and head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, offers a thorough and scholarly refutation.
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Krusader: one file manager to rule them all
I don't like KDE4. I don't like the Dolphin file manager either. There, I said it. I;m not trying to start a flame war. Really. But those dislikes are proportional to my concern about the future of Konqueror.
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Free Software Community Project needs Hardware
"Manchester Free Software recently set up a free software suite at the Marbella Café at 52 Newton Street in the Northern Quarter, using machines previously used by Free Space Manchester and originally from the Basement Social Centre..."
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Free Culture 2008 Conference Summary
"This weekend, I had the opportunity to attend Free Culture 2008, hosted by Students for Free Culture (an organization whose Georgetown chapter I started last semester). The organizers did a great job bringing together a wide array of participants for a fun, informative weekend..."
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Use Ogg - The Media Format of Freedom
"Increasingly proprietary evil software companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe are pushing video and audio formats that restrict access and restrict software developers, but there is an alternative that can be played on all computers without restriction — Ogg..."
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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.



