There are some among the FOSS community who pay lip service to Mahatma Gandhi when talking about this genre of software. There are others who actually put Gandhi's methods into practice to spread the message.
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I Give Up: Civilization Is A Bust. Quick, Back To The Caves!
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What is easy to learn? Windows, he says! Yes, scientists have examined the DNA molecule and discovered that the manual for Microsoft products are woven right into the Deoxyribonucleic friggin' acid, so that babies are born knowing how to do everything on Windows. So learning was not an issue to Windows adoption, it is assumed.
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Introducing LinuxCon - Our New Annual Technical Conference for All Matters Linux
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The Linux Foundation is very excited to announce the launch of LinuxCon, a brand new annual North American technical conference. The 1st Annual LinuxCon is taking place September 21 – 25, 2009 in Portland, OR. Registration and Call for Papers are now open - details are below.
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Rock The Docs: The Ubuntu LoCo Docs Day
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I am pleased to announce that on the 12th Feb we are going to have a LoCo Docs Day!
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Leitch lecture hosts insightful and anarchistic Copyleft creator
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"February 6, 2009 - Edmonton-Richard Stallman wants you to watch your words. And your personal information. And your freedom. In short, Stallman wants you to make a statement to government and corporations that you will not accept unfair and unethical copyright laws.
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Interview with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
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As many DistroWatch Weekly readers will be aware, I recently spent a week in Hobart, Australia, at Linux.conf.au. The popular annual conference draws many big names from the open source world, including Linus Torvalds (pictured on the right), chief architect and creator of the Linux kernel.
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FOSDEM: Open source developers to meet in Brussels
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The 9th Free and Open Source Developer Meeting (FOSDEM) scheduled for the 7th and 8th of February, is expecting 5,000 open source developers to attend at the University of Brussels.
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Free Ubuntu book tops 150,000 downloads
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Keir Thomas informs us that his new Ubuntu book has been downloaded 150,000 times. Freely downloadable in PDF format and available from Amazon in paperback form for $10, MacFreda Publishing's 164-page Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference offers a beginner's overview of the popular distro.
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Netbook Linux at a Crossroads
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Latest issue contains: Command and Conquer - Formatting Output; How-To: Program in C - Part 5, Web Development - Part 2, Changing Video Aspect Ratios & Ubuntu ISO to Bootable USB; My Story - Creative Zen V Plus in Ubuntu; Game Review - Tribal Trouble 2; My Opinion - Missed Opportunity; MOTU Interview - Nicolas Valcarcel; Top 5 - Torrent Tools; PLUS - FCM#20 Survey Results
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Open Source Windows? Don't Count on It
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Obama's inauguration must have brought out the optimist in tech journalists. In the last week, Ron Miller and Charles Babcock have written to implore Microsoft to open source Windows. While inspired and with some solid reasoning, I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. Here's why.
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Why I love contributing to Ubuntu
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The main thing that keeps me contributing to Ubuntu is it’s community. Is not the technology, is not the brown color it’s not the restricted driver manager, just people.
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Linux Community Begins Crafting Radio Ad
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It's been discussed to distraction...whether advertising Linux would do any good or not. Well, we are not far from finding out.
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Our open source heroes are humans too
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A great deal is being made of the fact that Linux creator Linus Torvalds has switched from using the KDE desktop to using GNOME, something he did many months ago, and something he mentioned in passing during an interview last month.
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The Difference Between An “Average User” and an “Average Geek”
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An average user may be an over-used expression, but it is still important to keep in mind what it means. For the most part, I agree with this article describing the average user, but I disagree about the average user's technical abilities.
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Top Four Alternatives To Ubuntu Linux
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During my time wasting, I come across an old article (5 months old) about the top four alternatives to Ubuntu Linux. Of course, everyone who reads the article are going to have differing opinions, and I don’t know anything about Matt Hartley, the journalist behind the piece. However, I have disagreements with the distributions he picked.
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