As mentioned in part one of this series, despite the legendary pace of development in the Open Source community, it can be difficult to keep tabs on what is being worked on. Arguably, multimedia is just a subdivision of hardware support, another area where Free operating systems have suffered.
Read more »State of the GNU/Linux Desktop 2009 Part 2/4: Hardware Support
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Microsoft Wants to Control GNU/Linux, Novell and Xandros Help with This
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A little more on Mono, but mostly news about Microsoft's management of UNIX and Linux
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Spanish Government to Hand Schools Over to Microsoft?
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"Apr 30, 2009. It's not the first time Microsoft has tried to wrestle away market share from free software using shady tactics. Suddenly, Microsoft seems to have discovered that education is strategic for their enterprise and they are pouring resources into cornering the market... at least in areas where GNU/Linux has the lead..."
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Why Europe Should Fund the GNU/Hurd System
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"A Dutch university has landed a European Research Council grant to continue work on a Unix-type operating system that aims to be more reliable and secure than GNU/Linux or Microsoft Windows..." -- see also The GNU Hurd project
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The GPL & The Free Software Movement: why Eric Raymond is wrong
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"Eleven years ago, Bruce Perens, who was then leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, drafted the Debian free software guidelines as part of the project's social contract..." -- See alse The Myth of the Free Market (via RMS).
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Patents, Protests, Plebiscites, and Protecting your freedom
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"When he attended a rally in Munich this month, Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to talk with our News Editor, Britta Wülfing. The conversation covered everything from Software as a Service, to patents, protests, international politics, and protecting your freedom...
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The Score: Red Hat Revenue Up 18%, Microsoft Revenue Down, Apple Fires 1,600 Full-time Employees
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GNU/Linux leader remains the only one standing (and thriving) despite a tough economy
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Microsoft’s Profits Down Sharply, Microsoft’s FUD Up Sharply
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Reaffirmation of Microsoft's problems comes from its sympathisers; Microsoft FUD ensues
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Linux-libre for Debian Lenny
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"Hi, As you probably know, back in December last year it was decided that the Linux package shipped with Debian Lenny would include non-free code in it (so-called "blobs" of binary-only firmware).
Read more »Latest FUD Attack on GNU/Linux-powered Sub-notebooks Comes from Microsoft-influenced Lenovo
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Microsoft's offensive against GNU/Linux on sub-notebooks gains a familiar ally
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Free Software Supporter -- Issue 13, April 2009
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* Version 2.2 of gNewSense released
* FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference
* Winners of the annual free software awards announced!
* Help spring the Javascript Trap
* European Elections and the Free Software Pact
* Can you help the Open Graphics Project?
* Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN
* Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort
How I use Emacs for Getting Things Done on GNU systems
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"I use the Getting Things Done system to keep track of what I'm doing. It works very well for me. My personal stuff I keep track of in paper in a Filofax, but I have a lot more detail to track at work at York University, so I use text files. Here's my system..."
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CONSOL 2009
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«I participated at CONSOL 2009 and had the opportunity to give 4 talks this time and meet with "the software libre community"...»
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GNU/Linux is Killing Microsoft Financially in Sub-notebooks
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Why GNU/Linux is by all means Microsoft's #1 competitor, as Microsoft admits repeatedly
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Linux-libre: now with a boot mascot!
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Having gathered some beautiful samples, I decided on my favorite and put together a kernel patch today. It basically adds the option of building a new Linux-libre logo into the kernel. Here's the result!
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