"Richard Stallman will be visiting NZ between August 6th and 21st in 2008 to help promote the use, dissemination and ideals of Free Software. This page is intended to keep track of where he is and what's planned..."
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DNS patch causes BIND blunder
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The group responsible for maintaining the internet's most popular domain name software BIND has admitted it caused problems by fast-tracking a security patch designed to fix the widescale DNS flaw discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky this month.
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Snapshot of the Software Patents Situation in the US, India, EU
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The trolling in the US continues, Microsoft's partners in India want software patents, Europe softens too.
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Branded Linux Zones In Open Solaris?
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How to run RedHat and CentOS Linux in an Open Solaris Zone.
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MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its infrastructure to promote Windows Vista
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MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its infrastructure to promote Windows Vista
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Why did Javascript/AJAX mop the floor with Java, Flash and Silverlight?
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It's not always true that the neatest, most advanced technology ends up winning most of the market share. There are other reasons which get in the way. Sometimes, the less advanced solutions end up winning - and evolve in order to become more solid and established.
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FSF demonstrates iPhone's incompatibility with free software and GPLv3
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, July 31, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a statement exposing Apple's hostile position towards free software on its iPhone mobile computing platform..."
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Dirty Tactics Even Machiavelli Would Envy
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Succinct explanation of Microsoft's ideas for abolishing GNU/Linux wins.
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Create your own web based personal desktop - eyeOS
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eyeOS is an Open Source Platform designed to hold a wide variety of Web Applications over it. eyeOS was thought as a new definition of Operating System, where everything inside it can be accessed from everywhere in a Network. All you need to do is to login into your eyeOS server with a normal Internet Browser, and access your personal desktop, with your applications, documents, music, movies...
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This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.
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Apple Denies Linux Access To Its Movie Trailers
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Apple has decided to block streaming content from http://apple.com/trailers/ for Linux users. I say this because tonight I went to view a few of the upcoming movie trailers and was told to "Get the Latest Quicktime" in order to watch and I was denied the ability to watch them.
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Should We Fear the (Microsoft) Geeks, Bearing Gifts?
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One of the most interesting journeys being undertaken at the moment in computing is that of Microsoft towards open source. Here are some more steps along that path:
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Ubuntu is wining, opensuse not far behind -- Time to vote
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Which is your favorite Linux OS?
After 500 votes, Ubuntu got 190 votes and OpenSuse got 124 votes
Please do vote and let the best Linux flavour wins
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Is Microsoft really any more trustworthy?
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Lately, Microsoft has been trying really, really hard to appear as open source’s best friend. All I can say is: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
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Theora Video Backend for Firefox Landed
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"It was announced at the Firefox Plus summit today that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. So and will support those codecs built into Firefox itself..."
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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.
