Pia Waugh is a leading advocate for FLOSS in her home country, Australia, and all over the world. In addition to running a consultancy in partnership with her husband, she is the vice president of Linux Australia, the president of Software Freedom International (sponsor of the annual Software Freedom Day events), and on the board of directors of the OLPC Australia program.
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Major Linux Migrations: An Unbelievable List of Nearly 100 From Around the Globe
Thoroughly thrilled at the thought of Munich’s progress switching to Linux, I have actually been tracking and logging such migrations for a long time. As a matter of fact, on my OpenSUSE Linux blog, I offer a course wherein I explore all of the migrations of which I am aware. I wanted to share that list with ya’ll.
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Linux Podcasts Roundup
I thought I would post a list of Linux and Ubuntu related podcasts which I listen to on a regular basis
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Beware the Novell Talking Heads and Passive Sympathisers
Pro-Novell deception in the press and in blogs. "[Matt Asay] now comes out (yes, once more) to defend Novell’s latest FUD attack on Red Hat. "
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Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?
In the last-post, I went through the most popular Firefox extensions and talked about whether they were good ideas or not. However, it seems that not a lot of people think about another side to this, i.e. what are your Firefox extensions licenced under?
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 7
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral, by Tony Mobily and Ryan Cartwright.
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"Big Buck Bunny" movie files released
The shortfilm “Big Buck Bunny”, made with the Free Software program Blender is available for download. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Note that the files are in a rather high resolution. Please use BitTorrent for download.
There is also a game planned...
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Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action
"This is a post about freedom. The freedom to keep your data for yourself and the freedom to run free software. You should be able to reclaim and enjoy these freedoms also when using web applications. [...] Let me be clear: web apps are great and I’m in love with them. But I think it’s time to ask for more freedom and more privacy. Here is a three step plan to achieve both these results..."
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: BASH/Bourne-Again Shell - When the Bourne Shell found its identity
"Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we spoke to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, and in this article we chat to Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. Bash, or the Bourne-Again Shell is a Unix shell created in 1987 by Brian Fox.
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"Philippe Aigrain of the Software Freedom Law Center has kindly agreed to organize a meeting between Eben Moglen, Executive Director of the SFLC, and "one of the world's most experienced GPL enforcers", and OW2 Members. This meeting will take place in Paris, France, on Thursday, June 5, 2-4pm, on the premisses of the Sopinspace company..."
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Helping FSFE's Fellowship: How and Why
"The Fellowship is the primary way people can identify with and support the Free Software Foundation Europe. It provides collaborative tools for supporters to describe what they are doing and interact with each other. The Fellowship is a society for people who want to help the Free Software movement grow..."
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NAS hackers allege GPL violation
A community website devoted to sharing information about Linux-based NAS (network attached storage) servers has added a "GPL" page to collect vendor distributions of GPL-licensed source code. In the process of assembling the page, NAS-central.org ran across one alleged violator, says site co-founder Markus Toth.
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How everyone wins with open source software
Recently, I wrote a review of the note-taking application Tomboy. Though I find Tomboy exceptionally useful, I had a minor issue with the inability to create new notebooks from within a note. Within hours of the review appearing on Linux.com, Boyd Timothy, one of the app's developers mentioned in the article's comments that my idea had merit and said he would add the feature to an upcoming build.
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Interview with Jeff Moe: BLAG, linux-libre and More
Jeff Moe is a 37 year old self-employed father. Better known as jebba, he is the main developer behind the 100% Free distribution BLAG (for BLAG Linux And GNU). He is also leading a couple of other Free software projects. He kindly agreed to give Blue GNU an interview by Jabber.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 6
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral, by Tony Mobily and Ryan Cartwright.
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