«I participated at CONSOL 2009 and had the opportunity to give 4 talks this time and meet with "the software libre community"...»
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 299, 20 April 2009
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Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! It's the Ubuntu release week (or Ubuntu "circus", as some prefer to call it), a major event in the calendar of many open source software enthusiasts.
Read more »A guide to helping the GNU operating system - (last updated $Date: 2009/04/13 21:18:30 $)
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"The GNU Volunteer Coordinators can assist you if you wish to help the GNU Project. They will be able to put you in touch with other people interested in or working on similar projects. When you have selected a task from our task lists, please let them know you're interested in working on
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Fitting the kitchen sink onto a CD
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On an Ubuntu install CD, every megabyte counts. So here's a little proposal to save a good bunch of them.
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protonet - building a new internet -- "revolutions don't start with frickin business cases"
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"So I'm a software mercenary, I fight code wars for money, to be more precise to raise money to do what I really love, and part of that is to create a new internet, a free one, where the data and the infrastructure belongs to the people, to give them their freedom back. That is why me and some 3-4 other guys are working on this project of ours, protonet. To build a new, better internet.
Read more »FSFE and the Fellowship reorganise their domains
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"In the past months, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) visibly improved the technological infrastructure of the Fellowship. We moved the Fellows’ blogging platform to a new site, we created a Planet to aggregate the Fellows’ blogs and we provided them with an improved and functional wiki..."
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Impeach Bezos for Amazon's Kindle Swindle
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Inspired by Seinfeld, DefectiveByDesign is "impeaching" Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to drop DRM on the Kindle.
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Ask Fsdaily: What are some of the most important essay about Freesoftware and Copyleft?
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I'm starting a collection of mirrored pieces that either A) truly shaped opinion about copyleft, free software, or linux or B) provide incredibly useful to helping new comers understand the community and philosophy behind the free culture and free software movements. So I'm asking you, what do you think are some of the most important pieces out there?
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Desperately Seeking Mediocrity
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One thing I’ve noticed out there in the big wide Internet is the number of people who desperately want GNU/Linux to suck. These are not, as you’d imagine, Windows or Mac OS fanatics who want to see the competition fail - in fact, quite the opposite.
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Faces behind Linux — Part #1
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What/who you imagine when you hear the names “Ubuntu”, “Debian”, “Slackware”, etc? Is this tux, penguin, disribution logo? Have you ever wondered who is behind certain Linux distribution?
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Does The Register Call Novell Opposers ‘Idealists’/'Purists’?
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Clarification: If opposition to paying for unspecified software patents per GNU/Linux installation (even in countries that forbid software patents) is an ideal/purity, then The Register still misuses terminology
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Interview With Ricky Zhou - Fedora Project
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In this interview we talk with Ricky. In specific, we talk about: Identity of the Fedora community and its relationship with Red Hat, Relationship between Fedora and other distributions, and Public opinion about the Fedora project.
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CNET Senility of the Day: Sun Buying Novell
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It's hard to take CNET seriously. Megatrolls from CNET tend to include people like Don Reisinger, who generate outrageous headlines just to flame and receive attention. It's sad to see similar nonsense from Matt Asay. His suggestion is so absurd that it's hardly worth repeating and Savio Rodrigues has already swept it aside.
Read more »drmfree tag endorsed by DefectiveByDesign.org—a project of the Free Software Foundation
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"Stephen Windwalker and I urged fellow authors to tag qualifying works as drmfree at Amazon—and readers to do the same. Use the tag at other stores, too. Now the drmfree campaign has won the endorsement of DefectiveByDesign.org, a project of the Free Software Foundation..."
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RMS on Amazon's "Swindle"
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As you've probably seen, there is concern over Amazon's plans to pull the text-to-voice capability of the Kindle e-book reader, because of misguided pressure from authors groups in the US.
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