For Barcamp Saigon 1, I decided to give an ad hoc presentation of using Ubuntu Linux with my students at a Vietnamese international school.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 31
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral - comic strip - fun - read more
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Official FreeBSD Forums Launched
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"The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum..."
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FS Daily badly needs to fix its authentication module
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The authentication of FS Daily is so crappy currently and it is such a pain to use it every day. It seems it is becoming crappier by day. I never get my remember my login correctly. Forget it, just to post a news or to vote on a story you need to sign in many times, refresh and above all pray it will let you do it.
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Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008
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Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008
Here is blow by blow account of trouble that brewed up on the second day of National Conference on Free Software 2008 in Cochin university. The activists put up posters against the Novell Corp (the main sponsor of this event) at the Free Software exhibition complex.
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"The most customizable GNU/Linux distribution: Gentoo, canceled the 2008.1 release due to a change on its factoring release phase. As shown in the “New release strategy to provide more current install media” posted by Gentoo: ..."
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A Geek Chick's Peek at Fedora 10 "Preview"
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Fedora 10, codenamed "Cambridge" is just around the corner. This upcoming version of Fedora will be released this November 25, so I'm pretty much excited about it already.
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from Vim to Emacs - part 2
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"A while ago I've blogged about my switch from Vim to Emacs, promising a blog post series, quite a mouthful :-) nevertheless, it's time to continue the series. The first part was about why I think that nowadays Emacs is ready to be switching to. This second part is about flawed Vim design choices which substantially contributed to my choice..."
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National Conference on Free Software 2008 :: Day 1
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Its been almost two years since I attended any of the free software events, I least expected the National Conference on Free software here in Cochin, kerala would see such a large gathering from from all over India.
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Freedom Walk - Final day at Trivandrum
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It was an idea six months ago. That idea was conceptualised and later, was named Freedom Walk-A walk to claim,ensure and preserve freedom. Started off from Kasargode on Oct 2, our team of volunteers criss-crossed through the length and breadth of Kerala touching all the 14 districts, and spreading the message of freedom among the people.
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Mixing free and proprietary software: not a rosy future
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A recent article caught my eye and turned it a nice shade of red. It discussed the 'hardly new' idea that the future of software usage 'must involve a mixture of free and proprietary products' something the writer refers to as 'mixed source'. The piece was entitled 'Mixed source - the best of both worlds' which may give you a clue as to where I disagree with it.
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The XMMS in GNU/Linux Manifesto v.0.1
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"The problem concerning the X Multimedia System (XMMS) is really a test for the wider community.It seems to affect users of Debian, Ubuntu and openSuse directly, but essentially it concerns all GNU/Linux users and the rest of the Free Software community, because it is a test of our social organisation: when and why can tribes be excluded and left to their own devices on the prairies of cyberspace?
Read more »New GNU releases October 2008
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This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as announced during October 2008 on the mailing list http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu.
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screenshots.debian.net
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"Hi everybody, a picture is worth a thousand words. And thanks to screenshots.debian.net[0] this finally comes true for Debian packages. Several people have proposed a service to provide screenshots for them. So after getting other developers' opinions and suggestions I sat down and crafted a web application that allows to upload and provide screenshots..." --
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