The first online edition of BSD Magazine, a magazine for BSD users, enthusiasts and communities, has been released. This edition is titled “BSDs as Servers.” Inside you’ll find the following list of articles:
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Study: > 21% of German PCs run OpenOffice
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According to Webmasterpro.de, a German IT service provider, the open source OpenOffice suite and its derivatives, such as StarOffice or IBM's Lotus Symphony, are installed on more than 21% of German PCs.
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Linux made me feel dumb.
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It's true. Linux made me feel dumb. It is not a nice feeling to feel dumb yet I did. Me, the great Locutus who prides himself on his technical wizardry and knowledge of all things involving electrons, had to resort to calling a help desk to solve a problem.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 66
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc & crimperman
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Enough with this "FreeSoftware is communist" myth! Please!
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No, really. As trollish and dumb as they may seem, you still get such reactions. And the problem is that they may damage Free Software more now than ten years ago, when almost nobody knew what Free Software is anyway, so here are a few recent facts.
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5 Reasons I would swear my loyalty to Firefox
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Who wouldn't like if their browser wears a haute couture skins or the pleasure of viewing Megan fox images on a 3D wall with uncluttered black background or get to know if the weather permits you to tee over the weekend just by moving the mouse over or download all the links on a page with just one click!
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Ubuntu Linux Used in the Making of Avatar
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Linux infrastructure was heavily used in Avatar's graphics rendering done by digital visual effects company Weta Digital.
Read more »A month of the Hurd: Arch Hurd, FOSDEM preparations and a thesis on mobile Hurd objects.
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«Hurd having been in development for so long, but still not production-ready; and with Linux as a mature free kernel being firmly established as the de-facto standard kernel for the GNU system -- people often wonder: why haven't developers abandoned the Hurd long ago?
Read more »Richard Stallman @ RIT February 23rd 2010
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«The good news – It’s official – RMS will be at RIT on Tuesday, February 23 from 10:30-12:30 am [...] I asked and was told that they will be setting up video in other rooms, but I’m going to suggest you contact RIT and ask them to find a bigger space and/or stream the talk live...»
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Wikileaks shuts down, unable to plug funding gap
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The anonymous whistleblower website Wikileaks, which has been a thorn in the side of governments and big business for three years, has shut down temporarily because it has run out of money.
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ISOC-NY Public Meeting: Eben Moglen – Freedom in the Cloud ?
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"...How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. Eben Moglen, a Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University and the founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center, warned you about privacy and the cloud before.
Read more »Red Hat Launches Open Source Gathering Place
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No matter what you're pleasure, chances are there is an online community serving it. The open source community has many such places — Linux.com, for example — that cater to specific elements of the community. Red Hat believes there is room for a larger community for the larger community, however, and have seen to the task themselves with Monday's launch of opensource.com.
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EFF Reveals How Your Digital Fingerprint Makes You Easy to Track
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Think that turning off cookies and turning on private browsing makes you invisible on the web? Think again.
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The Fight to Save MySQL: Interview with Monty Widenius
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I will do everything that is possible to keep MySQL alive," says Michael (Monty) Widenius, the main developer of the well-known open source database. "I just hope it's enough."
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Goodbye KDE, Hello XFCE
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This past weekend I uninstalled KDE4 from my Desktop. When I first started playing around with Linux, my first desktop was KDE 1.something. Even though it didn’t have the polish of Windows, I could see that it had a lot of potential. With KDE 3.5, I was in Desktop heaven. But
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