The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments.
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How Vista's total failure hurt Linux
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Once I got a good look at Vista, I knew desktop Linux was in for good times. Vista was, and still is, a disaster of an operating system. I was right too. When netbooks started coming out, it was Linux, not Vista, that ruled.
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Putting freedom back in software
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"Free software movement founder speaks on software human rights ..."
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Debian 5.0 Lenny is coming: target release date
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"...The weekend of February 14th is going to be our tentative target for release. We've checked with all the involved teams (which are many!) and the date works for all of them..."
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RMS: “Gentoo is a GNU/Linux system”
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"When people see that we use and recommend the name GNU/Linux for a system that many others call just “Linux”, they ask many questions. Here are common questions, and our answers..." -- via GNU/Linux FAQ by Richard Stallman
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Vista: Microsoft's biggest failure yet?
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"...Contrast this to the development and release model in the GNU/Linux world. Take a popular distro like Ubuntu, for example. Every six months whatever nice improvements have been made in the last half year are packaged up into a new release and made available to the user community.
Read more »A GNU/Linux Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
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"..The first post in this series is going to be about not so well known GNU/Linux program called Pipe Viewer or pv for short. Pipe viewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
Read more »OPINION Beyond Software Quality: The Ethics of Freedom
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"...When Raymond compare our community's industry to Gandhi's campaign for the self-rule of India from British course of action [...] he implicitly acknowledges that this is a issue of culmination a system of dominion -- a social system to be precise with integrity untrue. That is what we in the free-software movement have be proverb since 1984..."
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Ciclope Astro: GPLed software without all the freedom we usually associate with Free Software
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"The web-based planetarium is distributed under the GNU General Public License [...] If you plan to use, adapt or redistribute this code, please be also sure to have a look at the Google Maps API's Terms of Use." -- via Ciclope Ast
Read more »Compiling Lighttpd on GNU/Linux
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"Lighttpd, affectionately known as Lighty is an extremely efficient and lightweight web server. I run Apache 2.2 on all my servers, but have been using Lighttpd for a couple years now to stream video files for a very popular web site I run. Lighttpd has a flv streaming module which can handle more advanced streaming than the usual progressive http streaming.
Read more »Why Freedom Matters
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«...That statement packages several questionable assumptions:
1. That the only motive for developing free software is ideological.
2. That innovation in software requires a lot of funding.
3. That the only way to fund software research is through proprietary software.
4. That innovation is more important than freedom.
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Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Derail Dell GNU/Linux
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Antitrust case produces a document (set of E-mails) which shows how Microsoft reacted to Dell's GNU/Linux fever
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Warning! Linux Security. Are You at Risk?
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While it's true that allowing someone to view your code, leaves it somewhat more vulnerable than if it were hidden--it is not true that hidden code is more secure. So, if it's more vulnerable, why all the hype about Linux and open source and why does anyone think it's better?
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Still Converting Folks To Free Software
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"I've been silent for a long time. Life is funny - one minute you're trucking along, advocating Free Software, and the next you're being pulled in 4 different directions at once. Maybe I've been absent from running my site, but I'm still advocating Free Software. Just this past weekend I helped a lady whose previous vendor left her high and dry with her non-free software licenses.
Read more »Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig (99 of 108)
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«... In a math department, anyone would be free to tinker with a proof that someone offered. If you thought you had a better way to prove a theorem, you could take what someone else did and change it. In a classics department, if you believed a colleague's translation of a recently discovered text was flawed, you were free to improve it.
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