Lets face it. Nothing lasts for ever. As much as I like Linux and wish that it live long and prosper. I am also one who likes to think about the future. So I started wondering. What is there that can follow in Linuxs footsteps?
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Emacs & the birth of the GPL
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Emacs is not so much a text editor, more a way of life - an "extensible, customizable self-documenting real time display editor" with thousands of ready made extensions that take you way beyond its original remit as a text editor
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How Mono apologists drive developers away
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When Hubert Figuiere, a developer who had lost his job with Novell in the first quarter of 2009, released the note-taking application Gnote on April 1 last year, one doubts that he had any idea about the kind of attacks which would be launched on him by Mono advocates and apologists.
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What if all software was open source? A code to unlock the desktop
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What if all software was open source? Anybody would then be able to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program. A University of Washington project may make this possible.
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GNOME 2.30 Released
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GNOME 2.30 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first-class internationalisation and accessibility support
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GNU Generation 2.0
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After many successful months of GNU Generation, GNU Generation 2.0 was officially announced at LibrePlanet 2010. This builds upon the original GNU Generation by lowering the entry barrier to free software contribution, and making the program more extensible. So what is new? Let's see...
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Bradley Kuhn joins the FSF board
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When Bradley started working at the Free Software Foundation in September 2001, it was to join a team that then-executive director was putting together. It was a period of transition for the FSF. When he left the FSF in 2005 much of that agenda had been achieved, and he joined FSF legal counsel Eben Moglen and Dan Ravicher to set up the Software Freedom Law Center.
Read more »Document Freedom Day 2010 -- Liberate your documents
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Today is Document Freedom Day 2010. For the third time, groups all over the world are celebrating open document formats and Open Standards. They are raising awareness for how a technical issue impacts our day-to-day lives.
Read more »Ruby Summer of Code raises $100,000
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The Ruby Summer of Code has raised $100,000 in three days, allowing it to fund twenty interns for the newly created student mentoring programme
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Open Standards under threat in Europe - updated analysis available
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The European Commission is currently trying to get a new draft of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) approved by Member States. The draft gives rise to concerns that the Commission is giving up its worldwide leadership in the use of Open Standards, hurting innovation, competition and user freedom in Europe.
Read more »Full Circle Magazine Issue 35 is out
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This month, we’ve got a double whammy for you! Not only do we have FCM #35 (with a review of the Motorola Droid/Milestone), but we also have a new episode of the Full Circle podcast coming at you in a few minutes.
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Fedora Project Leader stepping down
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After holding the position for over two years, Paul W. Frields has announced that he will be stepping down as the Fedora Project Leader
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Less is more. But still less.
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One of the driving mantras for us is "less is more". I want us to "clean up, simplify, streamline, focus" the user experience work that we lead. The idea is to recognize the cost of every bit of chrome, every gradient or animation or line or detail or option or gconf setting. It turns out that all of those extras add some value, but they also add clutter.
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I killed Debian, installed an unbootable Ubuntu, now I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 with GNOME
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Anyhow, Dru is a tremendously gifted writer whose O'Reilly columns in the early 2000s and her subsequent book "The Best of FreeBSD Basics" has been a great help to me. Not so ironically, Dru along with fellow BSD writer Michael W. Lucas are two of the best out there at explaining Unix to the thick-of-head such as myself.
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Document Freedom Day: rOgg on in April!
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The Austrian and German team of FSFE announced the winner of the DFD prize for those countries. It is Deutschlandradio and Radio Orange for their use of Ogg-Vorbis. The articles gives some examples what YOU can do after the 31. March (DFD) in April to spread the knowledge about Ogg-Vorbis (and therefor Open Standards and Free Software).
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