DFEY-NW(Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a Group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 24
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Latest from the Bizarre cathedral by Tony Mobily & Ryan Cartwright
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25th anniversary of GNU Project at RVCE, Bangalore, India
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25th anniversary of GNU Project at RVCE,Bangalore , Translation of Selected Essays of RMS in Kannada and GNU + Linux Installation Fest conducted on 27th September 2008 at RVCE , Bangalore
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Let's Move FOSS to Its Logical Conclusion
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In one sense, the idea that all we need is a mostly free operating system is a direct indication of where FOSS is today. Most types of software needed for productivity and leisure computing are now available as FOSS applications, and those that aren't, such as Flash, or video or wireless drivers, are available as free downloads with proprietary licenses.
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Looking Forward to Distro Octoberfest
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October is going to be an exciting month for Linux enthusiasts. Three big-time distributions namely Debian, Mandriva, and Ubuntu will unleash their latest and hopefully their greatest distro versions.
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Free Software Foundation Latin America: Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the GNU project
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"Few people had access to computers back when Richard Matthew Stallman realized the then-nascent software industry was adopting a business model based on denying software users their four essential freedoms, and that he could do something about it.
Read more »How to join the Linux movement
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Every week we get someone asking about Linux what is it, why is it and should I do it? The answer is complicated.
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Happy Birthday To GNU! — The FSFE Celebrates the GNU Project's 25th Birthday!
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"Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the initial announcement of the GNU Project, a pioneering initiative to develop an operating system that gives all users the freedom to modify it and publish modified versions, individually or working together.
Read more »BrOffice, the Brazilian OpenOffice, with a life of its own
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Continuing our series of bringing information about the free software movement in Latin America to English readers, North by South interviewed Cláudio Filho (original in Portuguese), one of the people responsible for starting the OpenOffice.org project in Brazil (pt-BR), known in the country as BrOffice.org.
Read more »Atheros HAL Under Free Software License
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"...This week Atheros Communications has made another step forward in enabling their wireless products on Linux. Atheros has released their HAL used for their 802.11a/b/g devices under the ISC. The ISC (or Internet Systems Consortium) is a BSD-derived free software license that is supported by the Free Software Foundation..."
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Interview with Daniel Oliveira from the UTUTO project in Argentina
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The UTUTO Project is a non-profit volunteer organization that incubates other free software/knowledge projects from Argentina. They maintain a GNU/Linux distribution all translated to Spanish, they keep their own packages repository and you can search for packages on their site. The UTUTO community also maintains various documentation projects as well as a multimedia server.
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Richard Stallman looks back at 25 years of the GNU project
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On September 27, 1983, Richard M. Stallman announced his intention to found the GNU project in order to build a free operating system. Now, 25 years later, the Free Software Foundation is marking the anniversary of the announcement with a month-long celebration.
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Top 50 Linux Quotes of All Time
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I have collected 50 of my favorite "Linux quotes" of all time. Feel free to add yours. Enjoy!
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Updates from the Free Software Foundation Europe
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"My name is Shane Coughlan and and I work for Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation with offices in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden. You may remember me from my last FSFE update on this blog on the Freedom Task Force, which is the FSFE's legal training project which I coordinate.
Read more »GNU turns 25
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"Twenty five years ago , on September 27 1983, Richard Stallman announced his plans to 'write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu’s Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it'..."
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