The gNewSense project is pleased to announce version 2.2 of its 100%
FSF Free GNU/Linux distribution. This is the second point update to the
release codenamed 'deltah'.
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DeltaH CD 2.2 gNewSense Release
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Top 15 Creative and Hilarious Acronym Expansions of Emacs
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We all know that Emacs stands for "Editor MACroS", but several creative people have given the feature-rich text editor some innovative and rather funny definitions.
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FSFE Fellowship interview with Myriam Schweingruber
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Myriam Schweingruber is a devoted Free Software advocate with a flair for convincing people. Having worked as a translator, a school teacher and a pharmacist, Myriam is quite experienced in the art of communication, and gives a clear impression of trustworthiness.
Read more »the voting has begun -- and if you're in the wikipedia world, please participate
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"I can't begin to describe how rewarding it is to see the voting start on the question whether WIkipedia should exercise an option granted to it by the Free Software Foundation to relicense Wikipedia under the CC-BY-SA license. I am very hopeful the community will choose to exercise that option..."
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Try GNU + Linux: Support free software
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"We believe free software provides the best way to operate your computer and we provide personal tech support for free software at no cost to you. To make this work, we need people who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about free sofware.
Read more »FSFE seeking Executive Director
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"FSFE was established in 2001 as a multi-cultural distributed organisation with volunteers and staff distributed across various European countries. Its approach is that of a result driven NGO with emphasis on constructive dialogue for lasting political and legal change.
Read more »Stallman discusses Free Software and GPLv3
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"On June 29, 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU General Public License, version 3. What happened since then? I had the opportunity to discuss many subjects with FSF's founder and president Richard Stallman..."
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Steve McIntyre re-elected Debian leader
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British developer Steve McIntyre has been re-elected leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project (DPL) for 2009-10.
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FOSS Debates: Dissecting the Kernel
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As the central element of Linux, the kernel is equally central to open source software in general. Because the community has such a stake in its design and success, the kernel has proven to be the hub around which much discussion revolves. The kernel's creator, Linus Torvalds, also has a stake in its success, and he takes part in the discussion.
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Linux Foundation puts work into groups
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Collaboration is the soul of open source. At the Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, which ended last Friday, the organization unveiled new collaboration tools hosted on its website for forming and maintaining workgroups to tackle the problems that remain on Linux's horizon.
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Steve McIntyre retains Debian leadership
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The results of the election for Debian Project Leader have been announced and Steve McIntyre has retained his leadership of the free software GNU/Linux distribution.
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Podcast: Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Cloud Computing
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Barton George caught up with Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth in this podcast to discuss Ubuntu and cloud computing. George is a Sun Microsystems veteran who now works at Lombardi Software and also maintains his own blog, BartonGeorge.net.
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GNOME vs. KDE: The Final Smackdown
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All hell breaks loose when GNOME and KDE put on their gloves and enter the ring to see who'll emerge victorious. Don't miss this beatdown.
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Licensing update - From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
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"The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation invites the Wikimedia community to vote on this proposal to license Wikimedia material so it is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA), while retaining dual licensing with the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) [...] A vote will be administered to the Wikimedia community in order to decide whether to impl
Read more »Linux Kernel swear
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A french article about Linux Kernel swear. For example, we can count 34 "fuck" in the kernel source code.
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