"The second annual FSCons is about to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden the 24th to the 26th of October. I am giving a talk about Perl and debian, and there are lots of good talks this year as well as the second Nordic Free Software Award, won last year by Skolelinux. We hope you'll attend if you are in the neighborhood!"
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Emacs server + GNU screen daemon <-> Emacsclient + GNU screen
"If the server mode of Emacs is activated and files are opened through emacsclient, opening files by Emacs can be as fast as vim. But you can see it running on you desktop anyhow, a showing window or a foreground process. Can we make it a background job?
Read more »Jamendo goes offline to support Free culture
"Jamendo, the world’s largest platform for free music downloads under Creative Commons licenses and a supporter of Free culture, is reinforcing his offline presence all over Europe..."
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The state of Linux Docks
Almost every linux docks, one way or another, exists to mimic the functions of Mac OS X docks. gOS and ZenWalk are two of the few Linux distributions that has docks by default. Let’s look at some of the mainstream Linux docks out there:
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clearing up a little confusion about geolocation in Firefox 3.1
"There has been some confusion around the Geolocation functionality that we’re including in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. I thought I might make a short post to try and clear some of it up..."
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FSFE's Fellowship at Freedom not Fear in Berlin
On 8. October the Berlin Fellowship group had their monthly meeting in the Newthinking Store. Beside planning our attendance on the BLIT in Potsdam and the evaluation of the past events like Software Freedom Day and "GNUburtstag" we had a visitor from AK-Vorrat.
Read more »Version 1.1 of GNU ed released
"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.1 ..." -- ed - A line-oriented text editor
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Installing OpenOffice 3.0 On Kubuntu Hardy
Credit must be given to mogyweb who's how to for Ubuntu was helpful but incomplete for Kubuntu as there is one or two more steps which must be discussed.
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SocialDNS: Free Domains for a Free Internet
"Hello all, John Sullivan (FSF) invited me to present in this mailing list the SocialDNS project (http://www.socialdns.net).
Read more »EMACS Tutorial: Tues Oct 21st, 5:00pm
"Interested in learning more about EMACS? This tutorial can help you learn more about this text editor and its tips and tricks so you can code fast, better, and stronger [...] It’s the editor that can grow with you as you grow as a programmer..."
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Open Sustainability Network Event in San Francisco, this weekend
North by South will be participating in the Open Sustainability Network camp in San Francisco this weekend. OSNCamp is “a BarCamp style conference about free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.”
It will be happening this weekend, October 18-19, at San Francisco State University.
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gOS Gadgets Review
In early November of 2007, the gOS Linux Operating System was presented along with the Everex gPC available at Wal-Mart and on-line. The gPC desktop system was priced at 9 and its early success must be attributed to the gOS 1.0 Operating system based on Ubuntu 7.10 + enlightenment.
Read more »Eisenstern, Yo Frankie, and Vega Strike eye candy
A Free Gamer update that talks about recent changes in the development of the Eisenstern. Also a video of Yo Frankie! gameplay - the Apricot Project game, as well as Vega Strike eye candy. Also a new acronym - FSFR - is introduced to the world.
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Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 available for download
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.1 can be followed at the Firefox 3.1 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #shiretoko.
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Firefox add-on blocks 'clickjacking' attacks
A popular Firefox add-on designed to block scripts and plug-ins has been updated to stymie the new "clickjacking" class of attacks, the extension's developer said today.
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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.




