"A few months ago, SGI released a new version of the SGI Free License B. With that change, a lot of code used to provide 3D graphics on GNU/Linux systems was now free software.
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3D graphics are 100% free software
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streaming video in firefox
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"Asa Dotzler has been trying to get live streaming working with our new native video support that’s coming with Firefox 3.1. That is, video that is taken by a camera, encoded and pushed directly out to a web server instead of stored as a file so you can watch an event in real time.
Read more »Interview with Anahuac from KyaPanel
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KyaPanel is a panel to provide easy management in Gnu/Linux servers. Developed to increase the network administration, it supports mail management, samba management and many other features. The software was adopted by the federal and state government of Brazil and major companies from Latin America.
Read the interview conducted by North by South with Anahuac.
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Debian Project News - January 12th, 2009
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This year's 1st issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. This issue is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, who died on 26 December 2008 in a tragic car accident.
Topics covered in this issue include: Bits from the Debian CD team. Bits from the Debian Installer team. Results from the "Lenny release GR"
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Python 3 evolution
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Interview with Guido van Rossum confined to Python 3 release. Discussion about development tendentions and better development process.
Read more »The Perl future
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If you ask for the languages of the moment, you will hear people talk about Ruby, C#, JavaScript, Erlang, Python or even Haskell. You probably won't hear Perl mentioned. Perl's current standing is like that of JavaScript a few years ago.
Read more »DFEY-NW :: January 18th :: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West
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DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.
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DELL, we want a free software computerDELL, vogliamo un computer libero
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"There are three simple things you can ask Dell using their LIVE CHAT on the website but most of all by phone. Our ideal computer (desktop, laptop, subnotebook) has: ..." - Personally, I would like to hear from Mark Shuttleworth ;)
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Open Source, Less Labor, More Love
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Open source software is inextricably tied to the idea of "giving it away." Projects open their code for a number of reasons -- to better the codebase, or to allow others to bend an application to their own needs. Maybe the reasons are entirely altruistic, or maybe the altruism is the happy side effect of more project-centric decisions.
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GNU Action Pilots (GAP) 25-26 January, 2009
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"If you have a passion for ICTs (Information & Communication Technologies), feel that society needs to change direction and would like to take part in bringing about that change, read on..."
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OpenID Gets Explained, Maligned, and Dropped
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Lots of people talk about the OpenID Web site login solution under development by the OpenID Foundation, but not everyone understands it. A handy new Web site aptly named Open ID Explained launched recently that aims to separate fact from fiction and educate the masses about what this project means in the larger picture of Web site user authentication.
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Why Put an End to Proprietary Platforms: LeftParen 0.5 released with Facebook Support.
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"LeftParen 0.5 is a PLT Scheme web app framework. LP is in its early stages, and I need your help to improve it..."
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Interview with Non-Sun OpenOffice.org Contributor, Charles-H. Schulz
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Our new interview with an independent OpenOffice.org contributor
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The Best PC Game Platform Ever (GNU/Linux)
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"...So when I speak of GNU / Linux as the ultimate gaming platform, what I mean is that games should all be made to work on a standardized software platform. This standard software platform should not be able to be controlled by any particular company..."
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Announcing the Django Book, second edition
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"I'm excited to announce that I'm working on a second edition of the Django Book..."
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