UTUTO on Lemote Yeelong Soon a Reality !! — via Llegaron las Lemote Yeelong! —
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Where to find the various Kongoni source code
"Kongoni provides the source code for all software we distribute as well as the code for all changes made in accordance with the GPL and the spirit of free software..." — see also: GNU Bucks —
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Linux-based phones : Why are GNU/Linux users treated as second class?
Like many free software users, I am greatly encouraged by the number of mobile phones that are starting to come out running some form of embedded Linux-based OS. Nokia's Maemo and Palm's webOS are shaping up and it seems every day we hear of yet another Android device. All of this is good news, but just how useful are these free software phones to the free software lover?
Read more »Lest CodePlex perplex - by Richard M. Stallman
"...The first thing we see is that the organization ducks the issue of users' freedom; it uses the term "open source" and does not speak of "free software". These two terms stand for different philosophies which are based on different values: free software's values are freedom and social solidarity, whereas open source cites only practical convenience values such as powerful, reliable software..."
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Trisquel on Sugar
"...The project was presented during the Software Freedom Day 09 event organized by the Free Software Foundation. Briefly introduced by Walter Bender, founder of SugarLabs, our Sugar+Trisquel solution provides a way to run this excelent educational software in a fully free system. Trisquel 3.0 was also featured in the FSF event, running on the computers available for the public on site..."
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Trisquel hackers promised to make ext4 default in next release
"Our next release will use ext4 as default, to achieve the same performance without this downside. I'll create a "next release features" wiki page starting with this one, so I'm closing the bug now."
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Google Cracks SharePoint and Office Lock-in, Microsoft Still Morbidly Obsessed with GNU/Linux
Google creates more funnels to lead away from Microsoft software and formats/protocols; Microsoft takes aim at GNU/Linux
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When is it GNU/Linux and when is it not?
Of the many controversies in free software, this is one that I have long found to be interesting. People seem to define things in different ways, which leads to confusion (and arguing) when one person calls a system a "GNU/Linux" system and the next calls it just the "Linux" system.
Read more »Gentoo Ten LiveDVD Testing
"Attention Gentoo Community, In honor of Gentoo's 10th birthday, we are producing a new livedvd! We need YOU to test it on as many x86 and x86_64 machines as you can and post bugs..."
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KDE's Google Summer of Code 2009 Report: Huge Success
Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success for KDE this year. 37 out of 38 projects were finished successfully. Much of the work done during these projects is already merged into trunk and will be available for the users with the KDE 4.4 release in January 2010. Each student quickly presents his work done during the summer holidays.
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If Vista 7 is as Good as Microsoft Says, Then Why is Microsoft Actively Attacking GNU/Linux?
Microsoft's sheer aggression against GNU/Linux as an indicator of Free software strength, not weakness
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7 Things You Didn’t Know You can Do With KRunner in kDE 4.3
KRunner is one of those KDE applications that people generally take for granted. Since it has the same shortcut key, Alt+F2, as Gnome’s Run Application terminal, those who have just started using KDE generally assume that it is just another version of Gnome’s Run Application terminal. However, it cannot be farther from the truth. In reality KRunner is one of KDE 4.3’s most useful application.
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Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold in 1998: GNU/Linux is a “Serious Competitor”
"Highly confidential" memo from Microsoft's current patent troll shows Microsoft worrying about "Linux" even over a decade ago
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gNewSense 2.3 released!
"The gNewSense project is pleased to announce version 2.3 of its 100% FSF Free GNU/Linux distribution, in the form of a point update to the release codenamed ‘deltah’..."
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The ethical cultivation of peer producers through norms, dialogue, and conflict
"This article is a detailed examination of ethical cultivation as it occurs in the Debian project,.."
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