Yesterday while I was browsing Ubuntu Forums I came across a thread posted by someone named EssexJames. He recounts a recent experience with showing his 10 year old son Ubuntu:
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Is Ubuntu Family Friendly?
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foss.in 2008
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Photos from Day One of foss.in in Bangalore. .................
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Linux has moved away from geekdom.
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Linux has made some very big improvements over the past few years and I have always said that it is ready for everyone to use, if they can only get out of the proprietary mindset.
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I've Got A Penguin in My Briefs
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Steven A. Reisler explains his experience with GNU/Linux, and how he has completely freed his computing environment from proprietary software.
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AGPLMail 0.0.3 Released
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Version 0.0.3 has now been released, another snapshot of semi-stable code. The biggest change this time, is the migration to YUI (Yahoo User Interface) AJAX widgets.
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One billion Mozilla add-ons
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The Mozilla add-ons team this past week announced that it had seen its billionth add-on downloaded since it started tracking in 2005.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 32
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral from Free Software Magazine.
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Interview with Dries Buytaert – Co-Founder – Acquia – Founder – Drupal
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In this interview we talk with Dries. In specific, we talk about: Building specialized commercial support for open source technology, Making cloud computing more viable for widespread use, The relationship between Drupal and Linux distros, and Lowering the barriers to the deployment of Drupal, Integrating multiple functionalities and components into one solution.
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Disabled Boy Creates Art With Gimp
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This young man never ceases to amaze me. He attended a screencast introducing free software image manipulation software 'Gimp' at the C³ - Community Computing Center in Bangalore and loved it. Now he raises money by selling the artwork produced using Gimp on gnu/Linux operating system to buy new computers for his community center. Talk about free software empowering people!
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Freedom Socks - Episode 10 - Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo
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We’re Freedom Socks! a podcast (availible as ogg varbis and mp3) all about free software and GNU/Linux in particular. And, after another random “season break”, we’re back. This week we run over whats been in the freedom news recently, get all angry about normal people, do an interview with one of our own hosts about the AGPLmail project.
Read more »Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #118
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week November 16th - November 22nd, 2008.
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darcs Oversight Committee (Software Freedom Conservancy)
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"Hi everybody, We are getting closer to signing the Software Freedom Conservancy agreement (hereby attached). Before doing this, we will need to address the question of who is representing darcs to the Conservancy, and how do we change this representation should the need arise..."
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Who is Gandi and why should I care about them?
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"Ah a good question. Who is this strange and wonderful French domain registrar and hosting provider, and why should I believe they are wonderful? What does it mean to believe in domain name ethics?
Read more »2nd International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture
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"Hello Friends, All of you must be aware of the next biggest event happening in Kerala on Free Software. Free Software, Free Society, the 2nd International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture on 9th, 10th and 11th of December, 2008..."
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Moody on Gartner: Math Is Right, But Needs to Show Work
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Matt Asay at CNET directs readers to Glyn Moody's take on the Gartner Group's findings that 85% of enterprises are using open source software.
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