This year has already seen the second release of gNewSense, the completely free distribution endorsed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and the announcement that Ubuntu will have a free software option as part of its installation program.
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Blackring: Lisp
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"I think I may have fallen in love. It's obvious from my work with Carrot that I bought into the Lispish way of doing things long ago, but the decision to write Blackring using it has... well [...] This is what I've been doing for most of the past 24 hours, and I've found some amazing things..."
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Absolute Nonsense - More Weekend Unix and Linux Levity
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Random nonsense for your amusement. Links to sites containing random humor generators :)
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GnuCash 2.2.6 released
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"The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.6 aka 'Stay@Home v3', the sixth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software..."
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Free Culture Gaming - 1st game night Saturday 8pm EDT
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"Some folks from Free Culture at Virginia Tech came up with and, more impressively, actually started a Free Culture Gaming club! Every week Free Culture Gaming will get together to play free games online with other free culture aficionados. All of the games we play will be 100% free software and free content, as per our standards..." --
* Free Culture at Virginia Tech: http://vt.freeculture.org/
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter Issue 6 - August 2008
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– ## In this issue
* Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix
* Play Ogg!
* Pizza Party for friends of the FSF in San Francisco
* Portland associate membership meeting recap
* Give Apple the iPhone Challenge
* Help defeat Microsoft's OOXML format!
* Atheros releases free software wireless driver
* Yahoo Music -- the bad dream of DRM continues
* GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
Kerala Goverment to launch International Centre for Free and Open Source Software
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The Kerala State Information Technology Mission is keen to set up the proposed International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) by December this year.
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Review: Absolute Linux 12.1.05 – Slackware Made Easier
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INSTALLING Slackware is a Linux rite of passage. It is the computing equivalent of wandering off alone into the bush for a month armed with nothing more than a pointy stick and grim determination.
That is to say, it is quite a testing experience that is not to be entered into lightly. It is also something you only want to have to do once, if at all possible.
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Get your music free at Jamendo
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"...All music on Jamendo is free to download and licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License, making it legal to copy and share, as well as to modify ..." --
* Artlibre.org: Free Art License 1.3 : http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Windows Vista
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GNU matters
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Joshua Gay wrote a good article about the GNU/Linux naming controversey on Wikipedia [...] However, Gay's article brings up another environ: proprietary software companies. In particular those companies that use GNU software in their commercial activity -- legally and in compliance with the relevant free software licenses -- but don't mention 'GNU'..."
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Irrational publishing and recursive publics
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"...As a sort of “proof of concept” of Ariely’s claim, I was interested in the experiment in a new kind of 'hybrid' publishing going on with a recent book by Rice University professor Chris Kelty.«Two Bits: the Cultural Significance of Free Software» is published by Duke University Press (you can buy a copy here), but is also available online on this author-maintained website, twobits.net.
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The /etc/exports Configuration File
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The /etc/exports file controls which file systems are exported to remote hosts and specifies options. Blank lines are ignored, comments can be made by starting a line with the hash mark (#), and long lines can be wrapped with a backslash (\).
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Blizzard Asks Judge to Forbid Open Source
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Now that I've got your attention, don't worry too much: Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind the popular World of Warcraft online game, isn't trying to shut down open source software entirely. But in a recent legal filing (reported by the Virtually Blind weblog), they are asking a judge to take an unusual move: prohibiting a developer from releasing a particular bit of code as open source.
Read more »With Microsoft, ‘Security’ Is Code for ‘Monopoly’
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Trend spotting: Microsoft uses the ultimate excuse to punish and exclude GNU/Linux.
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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.
