The GNU/Linux 3D desktop is now free! Finally, direct rendering support! :)
Read more »[FSF] Thank you SGI, for freeing the GNU/Linux 3D desktop!
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Photography and ubuntu?
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Photography is more of an addiction than a hobby. It's all about finding the beauty in anything. A glass of water may seem beautiful, or even a leaf lying on green grass. It's all about how we shape it and capture it, and finally, how we set it as our ubuntu wallpaper!
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The Free Software Movement not able to be heard at the the European Social Forum (ESF) in Malmö
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Free Software Foundation Europe: «... From September 17th to 21st 2008 the European Social Forum (ESF) is being held in Malmö, in the south of Sweden. More than 20 000 people are expected to participate in the forum, which is a meeting place for social movements in Europe.
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3G Cellular Success with Ubuntu!!!
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Hooray! My Sierra Wireless AirCard 880 is working with Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron)! This is something I have been wanting to get working for quite a while. What it means is that I won't have to boot Vista in order to use my laptop on the train and bus during my daily commute.
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Spore and More: Activate against Electronic Arts
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"Electronic Arts (EA) and Amazon have been the targets of a justified online rebellion the last couple weeks. The impetus for the backlash is EA's use of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology in its game Spore. As of right now, the game has received 2,226 1-star reviews on Amazon -- more than we've ever seen before -- and they are primarily focused on EA's DRM system.
Read more »Mozilla Rethinking Firefox EULA
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After taking criticism from Linux vendors, Mozilla is now going to redo its end user license agreement and make it more friendly for open source.
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Shuttleworth: Python needs to focus on future
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Mark Shuttleworth challenged the Python community to look to future trends for Python's next big opportunity. Presenting a keynote at PyCon UK 2008 in Birmingham, Shuttleworth looked at three big trends, cloud computing, transactional memory and future multicore processors and asked the Python community how they were approaching these trends.
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Combinations Vs. Permutations on Linux and Unix
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Looking at the difference between combinations and permutations with a little combo generating code.
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Software Freedom Day 2008 @ Thiruvananthapuram
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"SPACE, Free Software Foundation of India and GNU/Linux users group, Thiruvananthapuram are organizing a host of programs to mark the Software Freedom Day on 20th September 2008 at Press Club Hall, Thiruvananthapuram..."
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Working in the bash shell
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Get an introduction to the Bash shell, which you can use on nearly any UNIX®-based operating system. Bash is a mature, powerful, yet easy-to-use shell that is freely available.
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EuroparlTV for everyone? No, only for users of proprietary software!
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EuroparlTV seems to work only for users of either Adobe’s proprietary Flash player (via the proprietary Adobe Flash file format) or users of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (via the proprietary WMV file format).
What this means to an open web, that is usable for everyone should be clear.
Read more »SFD 2008 Special - Free Software Philosophy Publication in Tamil
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«... I hope this book will aid the efforts to convince Tamil Nadu to follow the path of Kerala: to migrate the public schools to free software. - Richard M Stallman, Sep 11, 2008 ...»
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Call for testing of next Debian Installer release
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"We are approaching the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) release and the Debian Installer team is working to fix the remaining issues for it. The Debian Installer Release Candidate 1 is being prepared and we are short in time to make fixes.
Read more »Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters
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"Hello,
it has been more than three years since the last "Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters", high time for an update on the port:
* Snapshot releases
* Base and toolchain status
* Xen support
* Autobuilder availability and archive coverage improved
* Developer machine
* Summer of Code 2008
* Still no debian-installer
..."
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Stephen Fry's film "Happy Birthday to GNU" now available in 24 languages
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 -- Since its release ten days ago, Stephen Fry's film "Happy Birthday to GNU" at www.gnu.org/fry has been viewed over a half-million times, and today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the availability of twenty-four translations including Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Hebrew, that have been prepared especially for this Saturd
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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.
