GIMP is an amazing image editing software that allows people with limitless imagination create extraordinary images out of ordinary photos. To let you see what I mean, I have here a collection of some of the most beautiful and sometimes funny GIMPed images. I hope you’ll enjoy this one as much as I do.1. An eye with regard by funadium2.
Read more »Students for Free Culture Conference 2008
"Save the date! Students for Free Culture Conference 2008 - October 11 and 12 Berkeley, CA ..."
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My take on negative voting on FSDaily
It has been suggested by one of our prominent community members that the use of negative votes should be confined to demoting spam. As the individual responsible for the introduction of negative voting on FSDaily, I feel I should explain my rationale for its inclusion and provide my tips on negative voting.
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GNU Hackers Meeting 2008
"...Here are the [Ogg] multimedia recordings of the talks from GNU Hackers Meeting 2008. A meeting for GNU hackers (maintainers and active contributors) in Bristol (UK)..."
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Voting etiquette at FSD
I won't invite a flame-war by referring directly to the particular voting pattern, instead I'll describe my own voting etiquette which, I think, would eliminate such an abuse.
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The future of books
"Lately Giulio and I have been busy helping with the organization of BookCamp, a barcamp focused on books, ebooks and digital publishing. [...] Richard Stalmann, President of the Free Software Foundation, will deliver a speech (via phone) with a quite straight title: 'Fighting the Swindle of DRM on E-Books' ..."
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Re-enforcing our Commitment to Free Software
"...When we launched Squish Software, we had goals of “open software.” We realized that openly supporting free and open source software, while not contributing back with our own software, was sort of hypocritical. So today we’re very excited to announce that we’re beginning to phase out ‘open software,’ and phase in true free software.
Read more »School switches to Linux, hopes to keep MS funds
Warrington School, in Otago, has decided to jump ship and deploy the GNU/Linux operating system with free software across the board by a target date of 2010, says the school’s principal, Nathan Parker.
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Don't compare GNU/Linux with Windows or MacOS - they are not in the same game
Recently a blog post entitled 'Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy' has come across my feed-radar a few times. It's yet another in the long line of 'Linux ain't ready yet' jeremiads and it doesn't really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why?
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FreeRunner Linux phone sells out, more on the way
Less that one week after going on sale via its own e-commerce site, the 900MHz version of OpenMoko's Neo FreeRunner Linux phone has sold out, but don't despair yet as more are on the way.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 12
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral by Tony Mobily and Ryan Cartwright.
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15 Coolest GNU Wallpapers
There are plenty of high-quality Linux wallpapers that you can get on the web, but not that much for the good-old GNU (GNU's Not Unix). So, I decided to take some time to find and collect a few of my favorite GNU wallpapers in existence. Here they are in no particular order:
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Lisp’s 50th Birthday Celebration
"A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lisp is taking place in October at OOPSLA 2008. John McCarthy will give a talk about the early history of Lisp..."
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Stallman on Gates, and Free Software
Free Software Foundation chairman and all around computer freedom guru Richard Stallman has written an article for the BBC entitled ‘It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars’.
Read more »The Six Kinds of Anti-FOSS Trolls
Since I wrote about the seven kinds of anti-Linux FUD pundits, it occurred to me that plain old forum and blog-comment trolls could be classified, too.
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