"Dear all, this is with a lot of struggles that we have finally managed to open the SFD 2010 registration! As you can see there is still a lot of ongoing work on the site, and this includes a New Wiki where you can create your team page, a new home page for all the information about Software Freedom International and other generic and important stuff and much more to come..."
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Mini Debian Conference, Pune, Day-2
"After the first day of enthusiastic activities like talks and hands on workshops, the momentum had been set for the second day of the MiniDebConf..."
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GNU Systems: New Website for Arch Hurd
"Today the new website for www.archhurd.org was made live; matching designs for the other subdomains (bbs, wiki, aur, bugs, lists, and projects) will be created over the next couple of weeks or months..."
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Mandriva One 2010 Spring KDE
When I optimistically downloaded the 690MB ISO file from Mandriva’s website, I had high hopes that this version would improve the steadily degrading once immensely popular GNU/Linux distribution.
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Open letter to the media about the misuse of the term "hacker"
In the past few days/weeks in Slovenian media there was a big boom about three Slovenian citisens who allegedly cooperated in the Mariposa botnet. If you don't know what this is about read this press release from the FBI. The media has repeatedly called these alleged cybercriminals "hackers".
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EFF at the Latin American Internet Governance Forum
EFF International Rights Director, Katitza Rodriguez will be moderating the open dialogue on privacy at the Third Latin American Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which will take place on 3-5 August 2010 in the city of Quito, Ecuador.
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Eben Moglen on the Current State of Free Software
At this year's LibrePlanet conference hosted by the Free Software Foundation, Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center gave a keynote speech on the current state of free software and the free software movement.
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Tech Genie Thinks It’s Time for OpenSUSE to Say Goodbye to Novell
Another suggestion for disengagement from Novell as a new release of OpenSUSE is announced
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Richard Stallman answers your top 25 questions
Thanks so much to RMS for taking the time to answer our questions and thanks to the community at /r/gnu for all the questions.
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Gnash development is stopped: funding plea
So the Gnash team is broke, and has been for most of a year. This has forced many, but not all of the Gnash developers to find paying work, and mostly stop working on Gnash. The few of them left focused on Gnash like to eat and pay bills.
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Reject UltraViolet DRM
Throughout the relatively short history of Digital Restrictions Management, we have seen various methods of user restriction come and go. Now, there is a new threat on the horizon: UltraViolet. A soon to be implemented DRM scheme, UltraViolet -- or should that be Ultraviolent -- is a joint effort between companies such as Sony, Adobe, Cisco, HP, Microsoft and Intel.
Read more »DTrace's creator leaves Sun
In Februrary 1996, I came out to Sun Microsystems to interview for a job knowing only two things: that I wanted to do operating systems kernel development -- and that I didn't particularly want to work for Sun. I was right on the first count, but knew I was wrong on the second just moments into my first conversation with Jeff.
Read more »Open source software. The gateway drug to Linux.
Some of the best open source software (OSS) around is multiple platform. You can run the exact same software with the same look and feel (I can understand the look part but how do you feel a program? Do a Vulcan mind meld with it?) no matter what operating system you use.
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FSF developing social networking software
Social networks are all the rage today and with that in mind, the FSF is driving the creation of social networking software which should provide similar functionality to Facebook with two important differences - privacy and freedom are in the user's hands.
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What Good is it if They Don't Know it's Linux?
Just like Marcel Gagne said, stop apologizing for Linux! "Invisible Linux" is a loser strategy, and it's insulting.
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