Congratulations to Osama Khalid (OsamaK) for being selected as the first ever GNU Generation member of the month! Osama speaks Arabic natively, and has been using this gift to help the free software community. He worked with projects including KDE and VLC this past month to translate popular applications into Arabic.
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Open Source but no Open Mind
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I've been an Open Source user and advocate for years. When I started using Linux, KDE was the desktop that I discovered, as it was the default desktop for Suse. I quickly learned to appreciate KDE 3.3 and I have upgraded my KDE desktop up until release 3.5.10.
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Comments, comments, comments!
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If you have the desire to be a part of this community, help it grow and make it more worthwhile and valuable to others, please comment as much as possible, whenever and wherever you can.
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RMS at FRHACK
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"...Richard Stallman expose his vision in front of the France 3 television camera. Expressing himself in a perfect french, he explains that free software (NOT open source, which is different) englobes ideas « Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ».
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(Video) The Last Patch: A Funny Movie About The Battle Between Microsoft And Open Source in Arabia.
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The battle between Microsoft and Open Source is never ending. This video produced by Jordanians mimic how fanatics on both sides defend their turf.
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HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux
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Clearly, people in the Linux community would like for more women to be involved in Linux, but most people don't know why so few women are involved or how to change that. This HOWTO is an effort to summarize the explanations, recommendations, and opinions of the women who already are interested and active in Linux.
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Thoughts about ISPs, privacy and GNUnet
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Most of Moscow's ISPs blocked PirateBay's BitTorrent tracker. That forced me to thought about privacy, anonymity and freedom-related questions in Internet. And possible solutions to stay free and protected from moneyloving ISPs and their "rulers".
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The GNU/Linux Desktop and Borrowed Assumptions about Usability
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Is the GNU/Linux desktop headed in the right direction? Recently, I have started to wonder.
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NinuxDay in Rome from November 27-29, 2009
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"The Ninux.org team announced the first “Ninux Day”, a weekend with about and for wireless communities. You will meet software and hardware hackers, geeks, nerds, engineers, artists, the curious and academics.
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is an organization that does a lot of behind-the-scenes things, mostly policy and legal, which can be a little hard to see at times. Of course we are always happy to support Free Software projects manage the legal and organizational aspects of, um, projecthood.
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Linux is losing its stable title
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Linux has a reputation for stability. Because it is based on the Unix framework it has an inbuilt stability where if one process crashes, other processes are not effected. Pure Linux is still supremely stable. Then along came Jones.
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4 + 1 ways to celebrate the Software Freedom Day
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With the Software Freedom Day fast approaching, the Free Software Foundation and communities across the world are planning their activities and are preparing to celebrate and promote Free Software in their region.
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From September 2009 students in the Greek high school of Sminthi will use OLPC XO-1 laptops inside and outside the classroom.
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We're looking for a few good programs
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"Are you? Chances are, if you spend any time hacking, new code is always a useful thing. Well, we're here to help you out. For those of you who don't know, the Free Software Directory is updated almost daily with fresh new code just for you.
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