"Free Culture X – the 2010 Conference of Students for Free Culture – will be held February 13th and 14th in Washington, D.C..."

I have been using Ubuntu for years, as well as trying several other distros. While I still use Ubuntu on several machines, including my laptop and media center, I haven’t really been a fan of some of the changes they have been rolling out and feel it has gotten a little too bloated for my liking. So, I decided it was time to try something new.

Sourceforge ignored users from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria saying that it has to deal with USA laws. USA has very hard relationships with those countries, that is why open source, free software, hackers and people loving freedom must suffer, and Sourceforge is not against that.

In the article the writer states that it's too difficult to get FF3.6 installed on Ubuntu and that it's reason enough to call GNU/Linux dead on its tracks to get to the mass market.

Bruce Perens defends Free Software and Richard Stallman

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Also see part 2 and part 3.

Bruce Perens at the launch event of GPLv3

Around 75 per cent of Linux developers raked in cash from their code crunching in the past year. It's a figure that in many ways comes as little surprise, given that Linux usage has become so widespread across industries, government and the public sector in recent years.

One of the ongoing battles I have with the folks at the Hospice I support (and my friends) is their choices of passwords. Lots just change their password by changing a number at the end (vacation1 becomes vacation2 becomes vacation3...etc.).

I have a place reserved in my heart that only Slackware Linux fills. Strange as it might be, Slackware was the first Linux distribution that seemed to understand me and, I it. I recently read an article which brought to mind, the time that I started my venture into Linux.