Last month, following the availability of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" was the release of Mythbuntu 7.10. Mythbuntu is an Ubuntu derivative and has been around for less than a year, but they have been making great progress with this MythTV-optimized distribution.
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Firefox/Iceweasel Tip: Use Safe Mode To Fix Broken Extensions and Themes
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Recent Gray Richmond's article on Free Software Magazine "How to fix broken Firefox extensions" covered this issue extensively. The article talks about getting dirty with XPI files (a.k.a extension files) but not everyone is familiar with XUL so disabling a troublesome extension/theme/custom setting using safe mode is the best way out.
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Midori - a lightweight web browser
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Midori is a lightweight web browser with the following features: Full integration with GTK+2; Fast rendering with WebKit; Tabs, windows and session management; Bookmarks are stored with XBEL; Searchbox based on OpenSearch; Custom context menu actions; User scripts and user styles support; Extensible via Lua scripts....
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Emacs Tutorial at DeveloperWorks
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"Some people don’t understand why I still write most of my (non-Java) code in GNU Emacs. Here are seven good reasons..."
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GnuTLS 2.0.4
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"This is a minor bug fix release. GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications. GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many Unix-like systems..."
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Tip of the Trade: AppArmor
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SELinux wants to touch every file on your system. But is this necessary?
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Today, terminal-based programs have almost disappeared. GUIs are taking over, whether we like it or not. However, there is still a place for the old command line. Take the internet as an example: everyone’s using Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin for their internet activities. Even though these are great, quality, free software apps, they tend to be bloated. That’s where the terminal comes in.
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States shore up pitch to extend Microsoft oversight
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A number of states including California and New York filed legal briefs Friday supporting their earlier request to extend the government's restrictive antitrust oversight of Microsoft Corp. The states said in a court filing that extended oversight of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is necessary for "meaningful marketplace competition."
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Perform GnuPG Functions Within Vim
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Performing GnuPG functions from Vim is actually pretty helpful if you work heavily with both applications on a regular basis. I was recently looking for a simple way to both word wrap and clearsign various text files within Vim, and found just what I was looking for.
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Top 5 Ways To Prevent A Damaged Ubuntu Installation
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Keeping your Ubuntu install clean and working is actually pretty easy, when using some common Linux sense. Just follow the tips below and you will spend much less time in rescue mode with your Linux desktop.
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Spevack, Fedora Project leader, on its business benefits
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CIO.com asked the lead guys for each distro about its suitability for business use. In "The Fedora OS: Free, Stable and Customizable," Max Spevack, Fedora Project leader explains why this one is a stable, robust operating system fit for use on millions of computers worldwide.
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Does your browser do video?
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"Those who haven’t left the planet in the last year have at some point heard of HTML 5, the new improved language that will likely power the Web in the coming years. One of the many great features it sports, which will be of interest to free formats enthusiastics, is the multimedia elements: 'video' and 'audio'..."
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Free Culture Intro
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"...The GNU Free Documentation License is a clever piece of work: rather than using copyright law to prohibit you from using works released under it, it uses copyright law to guarantee that you will always be free to use, modify, redistribute and study works released under it.
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Second draft of GNU SaaS licence: GNU Affero GPL
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"FSF have just published the 2nd draft of the GNU Affero GPL. The GNU Affero GPL will be a modified version of GPLv3. The difference, very roughly, is that it includes a requirement that if the software is used on a public server, users must be able to get the source code..."
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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.
