Almost every linux docks, one way or another, exists to mimic the functions of Mac OS X docks. gOS and ZenWalk are two of the few Linux distributions that has docks by default. Let’s look at some of the mainstream Linux docks out there:
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FSFE's Fellowship at Freedom not Fear in Berlin
On 8. October the Berlin Fellowship group had their monthly meeting in the Newthinking Store. Beside planning our attendance on the BLIT in Potsdam and the evaluation of the past events like Software Freedom Day and "GNUburtstag" we had a visitor from AK-Vorrat.
Read more »EMACS Tutorial: Tues Oct 21st, 5:00pm
"Interested in learning more about EMACS? This tutorial can help you learn more about this text editor and its tips and tricks so you can code fast, better, and stronger [...] It’s the editor that can grow with you as you grow as a programmer..."
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Open Sustainability Network Event in San Francisco, this weekend
North by South will be participating in the Open Sustainability Network camp in San Francisco this weekend. OSNCamp is “a BarCamp style conference about free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.”
It will be happening this weekend, October 18-19, at San Francisco State University.
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Mozilla launches video accessibility drive
Video and audio support will soon be built directly into Firefox, by way of the free Vorbis and Theora codecs, and Mozilla is using the opportunity to advance multimedia accessibility for hearing-impaired and seeing-impaired users.
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BillGates - Ubuntu - Linux
A fun image of Bill Gates switching to Linux - image only
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released
Just in time for its (and my) birthday, OpenOffice.org 3.0 was officially released today, after several builds had been found on the FTP sites several weeks before.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 26
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral - read more and have fun
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13 nominated for Nordic Free Software Award
13 people/projects have been nominated for the Nordic Free Software Award.
The winner will be presented October 25 at FSCONS
The nomiations are:
* Daniel Stenberg
* Kristinehamn Kommune
* Simon Josefsson
* The EJBCA Project
* Inge Wallin
* IT-Political Association
* Imendio
* Patrik Wallström
Venezuela adopts ODF as a national standard
"Speaking at the Second ODF Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday, Carlos Gonzalez of the National Center of Information Technologies, announced that the Venezuelan government had formally adopted ODF as a standard for the ‘processing, exchange and storage of documents’.” Venezuela joins a number of other countries who have adopted this open standard, along with Brazil, Uruguay, Sout
Read more »Links to Other Free Software Sites (last updated $Date: 2008/10/01 01:00:54 $)
"To help promote knowledge of free software that isn't GNU software distributed by the FSF, we have collected the following links to other web sites that contain free software, or is directly related to the issue of free software..."
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Foresight Kid's can inspire young minds
Foresight Linux is best known by many as the distribution that features the Conary package management system. Perhaps soon it may become known as your child's favorite distro.
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Hackles: Funniest Comic Strip About Hacking and Linux
With all those sad news about the global economy, it's hard not to be affected psychologically. However, if you know how to laugh in the face of danger, everything's going to be OK.
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Why DFEY (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth)?
To mark the upcoming October 19th meeting of DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West) I have written a short essay about what I think DFEY exists for and why it came into being.
Let us know what you think!
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Mozilla: We're Not Using Firefox to Track You
Mozilla on Monday denied that it wants to use its Firefox browser to track your online activities.
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