The majority of the users Just Don't Know. The reference to the "Matrix" movie is both stunning and crystal clear. Right now, nine years after the first film was produced, I have been enlightened:
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Introducing my Vietnamese Students to Gimp
Vietnamese students learn how to use the GIMP wth PClinuxOS.
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Speeding Up Free Software Adoption: External and Internal Routes to Success
Striking a balance between mindsets might be a factor on which the success of Free software is hinged. Put simply, a struggle against so-called 'pragmatism' may have been one of the greatest barriers to wider adoption of Free software. However, at the same time, such a struggle ensures that Free software never devolves to become excessively assimilated to proprietary software, at which point its fundamental goals are simply not met.
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Fight Microsoft's lobbying of the world's governments: call to free and open source millionaires
The free and open source software community has witnessed, over and over again, how far a visit to the right government officials can go. Bill Gates seems to know the game, and what cards he should play in every occasion to “make things happen”.
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Free Software Foundation: Thank you!
"As we enter into our final hours of our yearly membership drive, I wanted to thank all our supporters and welcome our nearly 450 new members! I'm happy to report that this has been the most successful membership drive since we launched the program in 2002. We are still 50 short of our goal of 500 new associate members. So, here's the challenge for today. Please consider..."
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Sun Sponsors Open Source Community $1M Innovation Award
Sun Microsystems made a commitment to free and open source software and in doing so has contributed billions of dollars, as well as more code under open source licenses than any other organization in the public or private sector.
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Open Solutions Alliance creating European office
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) is adding a chapter based in Europe, the group is expected to announce Tuesday.
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Vive le Logiciel Libre!
"Today the Gendarmerie Nationale (The French national police force) announced the migration of up to 70,000 computers to Ubuntu over the next 3 years..."
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The world according to Linus
He doesn't own a mobile phone and he is proud of it. And he thinks virtualization is over-hyped. Find out what else we prize from Linux guru, Linus Torvalds.
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Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman preferences Ubuntu over Vista
In the tech world this phenomenon is known as “software bloat” or “feature bloat.” It's a well-documented problem and a frequent complaint about Windows OSs—Vista in particular. In addition to being buggy, the extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat.
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The Free Software Definition
"We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software..."
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What about the Fighter, Writer, Gunna or Runner?
My previous article where I asked "Are you a Slasher, Basher, Butcher or Pusher?" some people took it for what it was and wrote a very humorous article with their own brand of cutting wit.
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Next Debian release by year-end... maybe
The next release of Debian GNU/Linux, Lenny, is expected to take place before the end of 2008, senior developer Martin Krafft told a miniconference on the distribution at the Australian national Linux conference today.
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Why don't corporates love Debian?
The Debian GNU/Linux project needs more support - men, money and machines. But, apart from HP, big corporates don't offer the project much. This was the subject of a talk delivered today by two software engineers who work in research and development at Silicon Graphics in Melbourne.
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Interview with Bob Young
Bob Young, former CEO of Red Hat, former publisher of Linux Journal, current head of lulu.com and a professional football team shares his thoughts and views of Linux.
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