Some good (and a little not-so-good) comments on the previous Mandriva post. I wanted to point out just a few things...
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Linux Foundation announces LinuxCon Brazil 2010
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The Linux Foundation has announced that its third regional LinuxCon conference will take place from the 31st of August to the 1st of September, 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil and will include talks from Linux creator Linus Torvalds
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Mandbuntu 11.0 – Duck À L’orange
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On the heels of the recent news that Mandriva is up for sale comes a whisper of a rumor from an insider source at a large Linux software company.
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Hollywood: Your Software Freedom Stops Here
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Richard Stallman recommends reduced exposure to Hollywood's so-called "premium content", which increasingly excludes or punishes users of Free software like GNU/Linux
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5 lessons for other Linux distros from the success of the Lucid Lynx
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It probably now sounds like a cliche, but the Lucid Lynx is the best release Canonical has come out with since its inception. The following 5 lessons can be gleaned from the overwhelming success of Ubuntu 10.04.
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Beware of Proprietary Drift
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced yesterday a campaign to collect a clear list of OpenOffice.Org extensions that are FaiF, to convince the OO.o Community Council to list only FaiF extensions, and to find those extensions that are proprietary software, so that OO.o extension developers can focus of their efforts on writing replacements under a software-freedom-respecting license.
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Chris Hofstader appointed as GNU access technology director
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Free Software Foundation announced the appointment of Chris Hofstader as director of access technology software for its GNU Project, and the publication of the GNU Accessibility Statement.
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AMD Should Have Given RadeonHD Driver Project to Red Hat
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When given the chance, AMD should have let a real Linux company like Red Hat handle the free/libre ATI driver
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Open Source Communities and Customers in Pictures
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Debate continues on whether open core business models are a winning strategy with a capital "w" or not, and whether customers care. I want to take a different approach to the discussion here.
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Free Software Foundation Europe receives Theodor Heuss Medal
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) on Saturday received the Theodor Heuss Medal in recognition of its work for freedom in the information society. The medal is awarded once a year in Stuttgart by a non-partisan foundation named for West Germany's first president.
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A new issue of the BSD Magazine is available as free PDF: Embedded BSD (issue 2010-02)
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The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software
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Breakthrough for free software gaming -- Ryzom announces full release of source code and artwork, and a partnership with the Free Software Foundation to host a repository of the game's artistic assets.
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HTML5 apps
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HTML5 apps would encompass all websites as well as all the myriads of (usually locally installed) web-standards-based application systems on mobile. The guiding principle would be to write and maintain one single core application that uses web standards, as well as a mechanism that deploys that core application across a wide range of platforms.
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The Slough of Unsatisfied Ubuntu Users
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There have been reports on the Linux newswires recently of dissatisfied Ubuntu users leaving for one reason or another. I’m not going to jump on that bandwagon here, but instead just point out that in any community, especially an immature one, this is bound to happen. My message is to those who are leaving — you should put Debian at the top of your list of distros to try.
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Digital Restriction Management = bye bye Pippi Longstocking
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Today we celebrate the day against Digital Restriction Management (DRM). It is organised by FSFE's sister organisation, the Free Software Foundation. One of the suggestions from it's colleagues there was to share your worst experience with DRM.
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