Brazilian state IT company SERPRO (US$ 1 billion annual revenue) has selected Debian GNU/Linux as their preferred distribution for its thousands of GNU/Linux development and production servers. The announcement occurred during Debian Day in Porto Alegre.
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Psychosynth is now a GNU package!
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"The Psychosynth project aims to create an interactive modular soft-synth inspired by the ideas of the Reactable. We will try to provide a clean object oriented API to allow the creation of new innovative interfaces for the synthetizer and a 3D simulator of a Reactable-alike device with support for collaborative music creation over the internet.
Read more »Top 5 torrent clinets for Linux
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Here is a list with the most used torrent clients for Linux. While a few other exists and are listed elsewhere, I think the software presented here represents the big players, and a wide range of interfaces and features. I’m just sharing, I don’t profess to be an expert. Anyway, I hope this list will be of help to you in choosing a better torrent client.
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FSCONS: Interview with Fredrik Jonsson on Ubuntu deployment
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For the upcoming FSCONS Fredrik Jonsson, who's presenting Ubuntu Deployment for Your Enterprise has been interviewed
Read more »OpenStreeMaps: free software's answer to Google and commercially-restricted geo-data
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"In a recent article on free software and the Large Hadron Collider I mentioned that here in the United Kingdom The Guardian, a national British newspaper, had founded a campaign called 'free our data'.
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Richard Stallman: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
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"Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms."
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National Conference on Free Software, Kochi
This event aims at expand the concept of knowledge freedom, strengthening the software freedom movements by enlisting the support from wider sections, expanding the support base to Public Domain Software, Familiarise the PSUs, Industries and Institutions with free software, empowerment of indigenous technology and local community etc..View for more info
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Freedom Walk Day 2: Walking the walk
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Anoop presented the vision behind the Freedom Walk and offered Free Software as a viable solution for the technical needs and offered help from the Free Software community inexploring possible technical opportunities. The dean was impressed with the concept and he requested for workshops on Free Software and possibly on Free Software GIS software also.
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5 GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know!
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Having used both GIMP and Adobe Photoshop I must say I personally believe GIMP is much better for common folks like you and me who need a relatively simpler set of tools to make quick edits to our Vacation pictures. Photoshop is undoubtedly more useful graphic designers, however for making quick tweaks, nothing beats GIMP.
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Freedom, software and society
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"I've been working these past days on a book review about the free software movement, and have thought it could be a good idea to post it here (not the whole text, just an excerpt) because it is really related to the main topic of this blog. The book is 'Free Software. Free Society', by software freedom activist and programmer Richard M. Stallman..."
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Magnus Hagander (PostgreSQL) interviewed for the coming FSCONS
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An interview with Hagander, Magnus who is giving a presentation about PostgreSQL at FSCONS has been published the fscons web site.
Read more »Improving the democratic process with free software e-voting
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As countries around the world modernize their public elections process, the big problem with electronic voting machines is that the market is moving slow to provide equipment which fulfills all of the requirements for a fully democratic election. In many cases, printed proof of a citizen’s vote is still needed, in case the machine has buggy software or if there is suspicion of fraud.
Read more »Documenting Linux
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The visibility of the source code is an essential element of Linux and free software, but reading the source is not always the best way to discover what the coder intended - which is not always the same as what the code actually does.
Read more »GIMP 2.6 released
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GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view. It features changes to the user interface addressing some often received complaints, and a tentative integration of GEGL, the graph based image processing library that will eventually bring high bit-depth and non-destructive editing to GIMP.
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National Free Software Conference, 2008
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The National Free Software Conference is set to take place in Kochi, Kerala, India on 15th and 16th of November, 2008.
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