"Celebrate the new year with a blog post discussing the oldest files that are still sitting somewhere beneath your home directory! The procedure is simple: ..."
Read more »New Year’s proposal: look at your reported bugs!
"Happy New Year everybody! I have a little New Year’s proposal for you all, users and developers. Take a look to the bugs you have reported in Debian, this can be very easily done by browsing: ..."
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ANNOUNCEMENT: gnewsense-dev list open
"Hi all, A new list has opened. It is for dev work not user land issues or bugs. You can contribute, those who do so in real ways get to influence things..."
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Microsoft’s vision for the future: pay-per-use Windows, Office, IE... Time to Move to GNU systems.
"...If you’ve been thinking about making the move to free software, this is a good time to do it [...] It’s your freedom..."
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Why are we not using Linux?
Why are we not using Linux? Considering the advantages for geeks as well as non-geeks, Linux should be at a preference over the traditionally popular propreitary operating systems.
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Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer
"The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident..."
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I’m a GNU/Linux
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What’s wrong with Microsoft Windows Vista? - by John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation
"...There is a battle underway between those who value freedom, and corporations such as Microsoft who wish to profit by taking that freedom away. DRM and absurd licenses are at the heart of that battle. Please join us on the side of freedom by saying NO not just to Windows Vista and other DRM-enabled products, but to proprietary software in general.
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I'm GNU
"After “I’m a PC.” and “I’m a Mac.” there will be the revolution of the Operating Systems: The GNU/Linux one. :) The thing is that we aren’t a Linux, but we are Linux. (GNU/Linux people will understand this sentence..."
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It is time we had a 'LibreOffice'
A fork of Openoffice based of Sun's OO , in the lines of GNU Icecat, would be a nice idea.
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e-Swecha: Indian-made OS to be released
"e-Swecha is a free software project initiated by the Free Software Movement in India and is aimed at developing a free Operating System to, for and by the engineering students. The name is derieved from "E(ngineering)- Swecha" [ Swecha is the telugu word for 'freedom' ]
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Thoughts on creating a successful Linux distro
I came a cross a really interesting article today. Basically, the author’s points boil down to the idea that you need to be cutting edge (old school Mandrake), n00b friendly (easy to use and ultra-stable) , or appeal to a niche (old hardware, graphics users, etc) in order to create a successful Linux distribution.
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A Single Command to Get Started on Functional Programming
"Functional Programming is old. Ancient. Like right after FORTRAN. But it’s the future. Trust me, I’m named after the dude who knew about Jesus 700 years early. Seriously, it’s not going to take 700 years for FP to go mainstream. Some would argue that it already is. Python, Ruby, and others have adopted a number of FP features.
Read more »Microsoft FUD Alert
A little new wave of GNU/Linux FUD requires or begs for some quick commentary
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Trisquel GNU/Linux 2.1 released
"We are very proud to be able to ensure, after a long task of evaluating the content of our repositories with the support and supervision of GNU, that Trisquel is as libre as it can be.
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