"...Richard Stallman is internationally recognized as a leader in the free software movement, which argues that everyone should be free to run, share, study, and modify software..."
Read more »Richard Matthew Stallman receives Honorary Degree from Lakehead University
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Launch of Free Software Movement - Karnataka
"We, the Free Software Movement Team having been consistently working to build the Free Software Movement in Karnataka, have decided to consolidate our efforts by forming an organisation.
Read more »Elastix - an amazing GNU/Linux distribution to set up an Asterix-based PBX
Elastix is a complete GNU/Linux distribution with Asterisk, Zaptel, Openfire, Postfix and many other free software packages. It has a user-friendly interface that integrates the best tools available for Asterisk-based PBXs, as well as its own set of utilities which allows the creation of third party modules.
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Selective list of Plasma changes for KDE 4.3
Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3. This list is quite long, so I will only try to show the most important changes.
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Five Questions With Dion Almaer - Co-Creator Of Mozilla Bespin
"Dion Almaer is a name you will find 80,700 results for when searching on Google, so it is clear that people know how Dion Almaer is however, let's kick this interview of with, like the shower scene in a slasher movie, the obligatory first question, who is Dion Almaer? ..." --
Read more »In 2010 Asia and Latin America will be leading the use of free software... Africa lags behind
"Researchers from Seville -María Dolores Gallego, Salvador Bueno (of Pablo de Olavide University) and Paula Luna (University of Seville)- carried out a report, published in the magazine Technological Forecasting & Social Change, stating that the use of free software in South America and Asia will be around 70% in 2010, with a special relevance in the education sector..."
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Bought a Win License, only to wipe it for Linux? Take the Survey! See what others have to say.
Survey from my blog on Linux.com, Wiped Win licenses for Linux install, Virtualization choices, Netbook, Mono etc.. Uses Google-docs for storage..fun!
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Northeast Free Software Meeting in Bahía will discuss the economic and social role of free software
Presenting the free software model as a way to provide viable and sustainable access to new information technologies while encouraging the economic and social development of a region is part of the goals of III ENSL, the Northeast Free Software Meeting and the Fourth Bahia Free Software Festival, happening on May 29-30 at the campus of Bahia State University (UNEB) in Salvador, Bahia’s capital.
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Perl 6 training in Lisbon in August
"I am happy to announce that on 1-2 August, 2009, the week-end before YAPC::EU I am going to give a Perl 6 training in Lisbon, Portugal..."
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GNU'S NOT UNIX - Richard Stallman with BYTE editors, July 1986
«... Richard Stallman has undertaken probably the most ambitious free software development project to date, the GNU system. In his GNU Manifesto, published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Stallman described GNU as a "complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it...
Read more »Take this Action for Free Software in Europe
The upcoming European parliament elections give the free software movement an opportunity to educate the candidates to the importance of protecting free software from bad legislation involving software patents, interoperability and net neutrality. Please follow these easy steps...
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Real World Computing
MySQL fan Ian Wrigley discusses computer programming for children, and goes back in time with linux.
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3rd Blender Movie: Durian Project Announcement
Yes, it’s about time! The third open movie project had been lined up to start much sooner, but more urgent work (Blender 2.5 coding) forced it into the future. After all, it’s the purpose of the team here in Amsterdam to test and improve the 2.5x versions significantly!
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Leaving The Nest: From Windows To Linux
Well, I was talking with a friend of mine on IRC a few days back and was pretty much egging him to be an author here at HackTalk. After a while of deliberating he decided he’d write up an article but didn’t really know what to write about.
Read more »Qt Now Open for Community Contributions
Today, we at Qt Software have opened our repositories to the public. Any developer can now help guide and shape the future development of Qt by contributions of code, translations, examples and other material to Qt and Qt-related projects. We have also published our roadmap and released Qt Jambi under the LGPL. Read on for details.
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