No matter your flavour of instant messenger (IM) client, Linux has you covered. With the open source program Pidgin you can talk freely.
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5 Ways to Know You're Ready for Virtualization
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To help you avoid those opportunists who jump on new technologies like cockroaches pouncing on freshly fallen cake crumbs—gobbling up the sweet bits and running off into the dark when the lights come on, I’ve compiled 5 simple questions to ask yourself before taking the plunge.
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Critical hole in Mplayer
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MPlayer, the free movie player, has a critical vulnerability according to an advisory from OCert.
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Freedom Walk Day 2: Walking the walk
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Anoop presented the vision behind the Freedom Walk and offered Free Software as a viable solution for the technical needs and offered help from the Free Software community inexploring possible technical opportunities. The dean was impressed with the concept and he requested for workshops on Free Software and possibly on Free Software GIS software also.
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Bubba Two: The little server that could
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Converting an old PC into a home or office server may look like a good idea on paper, but in reality, the idea has a few serious drawbacks. Turning an old PC into a server also means installing and configuring all the necessary software, which can be a time-consuming and laborious process........ consider instead Bubba Two, a nifty Debian-based device that can be used for a variety of tasks.
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FSF high priority list becomes a campaign, seeks donations
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After marking the GNU Project's 25th anniversary with an endorsement by Stephen Fry and the relicensing of OpenGL, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is concluding the month-long celebration by relaunching its high priority list, which enumerates as-yet unwritten software needed to run a completely free computer system.
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Five Nifty Ubiquity Scripts
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The extensible and open nature of Ubiquity means that you can easily expand its functionality by installing additional scripts that add new commands. There are dozens of Ubiquity scripts floating on the Web, but here are a few that you might find particularly useful.
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5 GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know!
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Having used both GIMP and Adobe Photoshop I must say I personally believe GIMP is much better for common folks like you and me who need a relatively simpler set of tools to make quick edits to our Vacation pictures. Photoshop is undoubtedly more useful graphic designers, however for making quick tweaks, nothing beats GIMP.
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Icecat 3.0.3 in European Portuguese
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Icecat 3.0.3, a completely free version of Firefox, is available in European Portuguese. Go grab it. :)
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Interview with Richard Stallman, Founding Father of Free Software
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My interview with RMS is posted to mark the 25th anniversary/birthday of GNU
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Open source software raises copyright issues
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F/OSS is rife with legal ambiguities and risk. F/OSS is subject to an anomalous, complex, and decentralized licensing scheme that has evolved entirely apart from conventional, commercial licensing models.
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Linux Package Manager Cheatsheet
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A short introduction to package management. Provides an overview of YUM (RPM-based distributions) and Aptitude (Debian and its derivatives).
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Freedom, software and society
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"I've been working these past days on a book review about the free software movement, and have thought it could be a good idea to post it here (not the whole text, just an excerpt) because it is really related to the main topic of this blog. The book is 'Free Software. Free Society', by software freedom activist and programmer Richard M. Stallman..."
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Linux Vs. Unix: The Sins Of The Father?
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Did you ever notice that sometimes things are just slightly to the left of where they're supposed to be?
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A brief history of computers and free software: where is the money?
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The end of 2008 might see the dawn of a new revolution in the computer industry and in people’s lives. Maybe 2009 will be remembered as the year when the “world went mobile”. What does this mean for the (free and non-free) software industry?
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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.
