Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced updates related to its list of fully free GNU/Linux distributions, including the addition of one new distribution called Kongoni, and a milestone release of the Trisquel system.
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FSF updates list of free GNU/Linux distributions, adding Kongoni and Trisquel
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Sexism: Open Source Software's Dirty Little Secret
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On September 19th, the GNOME Foundation and the Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on how to increase women's participation in the free and open source software (FOSS) communities.
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Osama Khalid is the first GNU Generation member of the month
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Congratulations to Osama Khalid (OsamaK) for being selected as the first ever GNU Generation member of the month! Osama speaks Arabic natively, and has been using this gift to help the free software community. He worked with projects including KDE and VLC this past month to translate popular applications into Arabic.
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Public denounced ICANN
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RMS: « The organizations of non-commercial users of the Internet denounced ICANN for giving too much weight to the interests of business. This is what happens under governments in which democracy has been corrupted by business power. »
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Open Source but no Open Mind
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I've been an Open Source user and advocate for years. When I started using Linux, KDE was the desktop that I discovered, as it was the default desktop for Suse. I quickly learned to appreciate KDE 3.3 and I have upgraded my KDE desktop up until release 3.5.10.
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Comments, comments, comments!
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If you have the desire to be a part of this community, help it grow and make it more worthwhile and valuable to others, please comment as much as possible, whenever and wherever you can.
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Comments, comments, comments!
Just thought we'd take an opportunity to ask you all to help improve your community and ours by posting comments as much as you can on as many stories and as often as you can.
Far too often stories come and go without anyone providing their opinions of them apart from giving them votes. It would of great benefit to the community if we all participate more often in this way.
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RMS at FRHACK
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"...Richard Stallman expose his vision in front of the France 3 television camera. Expressing himself in a perfect french, he explains that free software (NOT open source, which is different) englobes ideas « Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ».
Read more »HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux
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Clearly, people in the Linux community would like for more women to be involved in Linux, but most people don't know why so few women are involved or how to change that. This HOWTO is an effort to summarize the explanations, recommendations, and opinions of the women who already are interested and active in Linux.
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(Video) The Last Patch: A Funny Movie About The Battle Between Microsoft And Open Source in Arabia.
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The battle between Microsoft and Open Source is never ending. This video produced by Jordanians mimic how fanatics on both sides defend their turf.
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Thoughts about ISPs, privacy and GNUnet
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Most of Moscow's ISPs blocked PirateBay's BitTorrent tracker. That forced me to thought about privacy, anonymity and freedom-related questions in Internet. And possible solutions to stay free and protected from moneyloving ISPs and their "rulers".
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The GNU/Linux Desktop and Borrowed Assumptions about Usability
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Is the GNU/Linux desktop headed in the right direction? Recently, I have started to wonder.
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NinuxDay in Rome from November 27-29, 2009
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"The Ninux.org team announced the first “Ninux Day”, a weekend with about and for wireless communities. You will meet software and hardware hackers, geeks, nerds, engineers, artists, the curious and academics.
Read more »The human face of the FSFE
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is an organization that does a lot of behind-the-scenes things, mostly policy and legal, which can be a little hard to see at times. Of course we are always happy to support Free Software projects manage the legal and organizational aspects of, um, projecthood.
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Linux is losing its stable title
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Linux has a reputation for stability. Because it is based on the Unix framework it has an inbuilt stability where if one process crashes, other processes are not effected. Pure Linux is still supremely stable. Then along came Jones.
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