"...Since I've liked this year FOSDEM "meme" of sticking images saying "I'm going to FOSDEM" onto blog posts, here is my small contribution: an "I'm going to DebConf8" sticker for your posts..."
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ELS'08 News!
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"Here are some news about the upcoming 1st European Lisp Symposium, that will take place in Bordeaux/France on May 22-23, 2008. First of all, registration is now open to everybody, and you can register for the symposium and the accompanying social event at the symposium website..." -- Call for papers: http://p-cos.blogspot.com/2007/12/european-lisp-symposium-2008-call-for....
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Semantic Web in the news - by Tim Berners-Lee
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"...In all this Semantic Web news, though, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The benefit of the Semantic Web is that data may be re-used in ways unexpected by the original publisher. That is the value added.
Read more »Mozilla fixes 10 Firefox flaws, half seen as 'critical'
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Mozilla Corp. yesterday patched 10 vulnerabilities, half of them marked "critical," in its open-source browser as it updated Firefox to Version 2.0.0.13. The new Mozilla Messaging Inc. spin-off, however, was not able to provide a matching update to its Thunderbird e-mail client, which shares five of the Firefox flaws that were fixed.
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Erik Naggum on learning Emacs
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"...novice-friendly software has a despicable habit of piling feature upon feature without really getting any more advanced -- it's the same stupid dog learning more and more tricks. those tricks are just long, automated sequences of manual commands. Emacs isn't like that. Emacs tricks have to do with algorithmically modifiable and parametrically adjustable behavior.
Read more »Matthias Ettrich: The KDE-Man!
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Nobody in their right mind would choose Windows over GNU/Linux based on the desktop experience alone, says Matthias Ettrich.
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Is open source anti-American?
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So, is open source anti-American?
Whitehurst admitted that open source advocates in the developing world benefit from an anti-American, and anti-Western bias where it exists.
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Linux Mint in the Classroom (Vietnam)
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About three weeks ago, I was given a new group of Teen Immersion students to work with at the American International School in Saigon, Vietnam. Since I am their Computer Science teacher, you guessed it, I had them using Linux Mint during the first week of class.
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Open letter to ISO Standards Committee
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We publish an open letter from Peter Drummond, Australia's IUPAP representative for computational physics and Fellow
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Interview with organizers of the BSD certification exam
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The BSD Certification Group, (BSDCG) held its first in-person BSDA certification exam session for systems administrators during SCALE last month in Los Angeles. Subsequent tests were then held held during FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, and Linux-Tage Chemnitzer in Chemnitz, Germany.
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Someday, it will be legal to strangle trolls...
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I guess part of the game when you're a FOSS blogger is that every great once in a while, you have to swat away some brat who comes running up to hurl spitballs at you.
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All About Linux 2008: Great Moments in Linux History
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The above video may or may not be an accurate depiction of the early days of Linux.
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*Linux Distros That Could Take The Lead Soon
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After more than 15 years of Linux development, the last couple of years have seen an explosive spectrum of progress in conquering the desktop. It is as if the world is suddenly waking up and discovering Linux.
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Download the PDFTracking Linux prereleases: OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora
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We often hear from readers who want to track the development process of their favorite Linux distribution but don't know where to start. Budding Linux enthusiasts frequently ask how the release cycles work, what the version numbers mean, and what options are available for end-user testing prior to official releases.
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Why do you really use Linux?
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An Amazing Mind, which subtitles itself as a psychology, self-improvement and Linux blog, has a very interesting post which talks about Linux, and people’s motivations to use it.
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