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IETF Outcomes Wiki

http://www.ietf.org

«...This wiki lists technologies and services that were developed in the IETF and represent notable successes and failures. The wiki is a collaborative effort of IETF participants, and you are invited to provide feedback to the community about the utility of IETF efforts as well as to facilitate public understanding of IETF work and its impact...»:

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Wikimedia donates servers to deserving non-profits.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org

"Every year, Wikipedia usage goes upward, and every year the technical folks working and volunteering with Wikimedia have to plan, purchase, and implement new servers to keep up to the growing popularity of Wikipedia and its sister projects. With the advances in computing, running 9 new application servers this year took the load of 36 application servers from 3 years ago..."

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There's nothing wrong with being thankful (or why I say GNU/Linux)

http://maratux.blogspot.com

There's nothing wrong with saying "thank you" when someone has fulfilled one's need/wish for something... even more if the person who fulfilled it was not in any way forced to do it for us.

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Download the first online edition of BSD magazine

http://linuxbsdos.com

The first online edition of BSD Magazine, a magazine for BSD users, enthusiasts and communities, has been released. This edition is titled “BSDs as Servers.” Inside you’ll find the following list of articles:

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Study: > 21% of German PCs run OpenOffice

http://www.h-online.com

According to Webmasterpro.de, a German IT service provider, the open source OpenOffice suite and its derivatives, such as StarOffice or IBM's Lotus Symphony, are installed on more than 21% of German PCs.

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Ubuntu Linux Used in the Making of Avatar

http://jordanopensource.org

Linux infrastructure was heavily used in Avatar's graphics rendering done by digital visual effects company Weta Digital.

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The Bizarre Cathedral - 66

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc & crimperman

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Linux made me feel dumb.

http://www.locutus.us

It's true. Linux made me feel dumb. It is not a nice feeling to feel dumb yet I did. Me, the great Locutus who prides himself on his technical wizardry and knowledge of all things involving electrons, had to resort to calling a help desk to solve a problem.

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5 Reasons I would swear my loyalty to Firefox

http://www.spreadfirefox.com

Who wouldn't like if their browser wears a haute couture skins or the pleasure of viewing Megan fox images on a 3D wall with uncluttered black background or get to know if the weather permits you to tee over the weekend just by moving the mouse over or download all the links on a page with just one click!

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Richard Stallman @ RIT February 23rd 2010

http://wnylug.org

«The good news – It’s official – RMS will be at RIT on Tuesday, February 23 from 10:30-12:30 am [...] I asked and was told that they will be setting up video in other rooms, but I’m going to suggest you contact RIT and ask them to find a bigger space and/or stream the talk live...»

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A month of the Hurd: Arch Hurd, FOSDEM preparations and a thesis on mobile Hurd objects.

http://www.gnu.org

«Hurd having been in development for so long, but still not production-ready; and with Linux as a mature free kernel being firmly established as the de-facto standard kernel for the GNU system -- people often wonder: why haven't developers abandoned the Hurd long ago?

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Enough with this "FreeSoftware is communist" myth! Please!

http://stop.zona-m.net

No, really. As trollish and dumb as they may seem, you still get such reactions. And the problem is that they may damage Free Software more now than ten years ago, when almost nobody knew what Free Software is anyway, so here are a few recent facts.

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Wikileaks shuts down, unable to plug funding gap

http://www.smh.com.au

The anonymous whistleblower website Wikileaks, which has been a thorn in the side of governments and big business for three years, has shut down temporarily because it has run out of money.

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ISOC-NY Public Meeting: Eben Moglen – Freedom in the Cloud ?

http://www.isoc-ny.org

"...How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. Eben Moglen, a Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University and the founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center, warned you about privacy and the cloud before.

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Red Hat Launches Open Source Gathering Place

http://ostatic.com

No matter what you're pleasure, chances are there is an online community serving it. The open source community has many such places — Linux.com, for example — that cater to specific elements of the community. Red Hat believes there is room for a larger community for the larger community, however, and have seen to the task themselves with Monday's launch of opensource.com.

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