The most popular and stable GNU/Linux operating system Debain has turned 15 today. Debian was announced on 16 August 1993. In these last 15 years Debian has established itself as the most stable operating system. Most of the popular GNU/Linux distributions, like Ubuntu and Knoppix, are based on Debian.
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Happy Birth Day Debian
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Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official
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"Dear OpenMoko community, the FSO packaging team of the Debian project is happy to announce that we have started to provide installation procedures and packages required to have your FreeRunner run Debian-powered. This means that you can use your favorite tools such as apt-get and the other >20.000 packages on your FreeRunner, including the freesmartphone.org software stack.
Read more »Registration Open for jQuery Conference 2008
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"Registration for jQuery Conference 2008 is officially open. Register now to ensure your spot! As announced, this one-day conference will be held in Boston on Sunday, September 28 ..." (jquery is free software dual-licensed under the GPL and MIT licenses)
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FYI: Linux is Here to Stay, and Rule!
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I'm sometimes annoyed when I read some ignorant people's comment that Linux doesn't matter anymore and that it is slowly dying. A comment from a blog said, "Linux?
Read more »Why our mission is to teach them to value Software Freedoms
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Rick, you miss one point: free software is about freedom, not price. Hackers insist on freedom even when it is inconvenient...
My mission today is to teach you to value these freedoms... Please, try to learn this philosophy. Free Software is a movement that one day you will rejoin ;)
Freedom is worth a sacrifice - (RMS)
christophe
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Read more »Mozilla Add-ons Workshop in Paris, it's alive !
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"...I'm glad to announce that the Mozilla Add-ons Workshop in Paris is now open for subscriptions ! It will take place on Saturday September 20th. William talked a bit about this event. Our objective is to bring together French-speaking XUL developers, hackers, Web developers... to discuss about Mozilla technologies..."
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“Say No To Software Patents” Campaign in Bangalore
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"The Free Software User’s Group, Bangalore is co-ordinating a campaign to 'Say No To Software Patents' in India ..."
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DebConf Gallery
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"As in previous years we have a DebConf Gallery running.
We would like to encourage people who have taken pictures around DebCamp, DebConf and DebianDay to upload them to gallery.debconf.org ..."
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Screens of Death Humor
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The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) once again made an epic appearance. This time, it happened at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics... The Screen of Death is not exclusive to Windows. Other operating systems also display special types of error messages when fatal exception occurs.
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Submit your nominations for the 2008 Free Software Awards
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"BOSTON, August 12, 2008—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project announce the requests for nominations for the 11th annual Free Software Awards [...] The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is presented annually by FSF President Richard Stallman to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through a
Read more »OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30 Specifications Released
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From SIGGRAPH 2008, one of the premiere computers graphics conferences, the Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL 3.0 API specification and the GLSL 1.30 shading language specification. This is the first major update to this cross-platform 3D programming API since the OpenGL 2.1 release two years ago.
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OpenGL 3.0 released
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The Khronos Group has released a new mile stone version of the OpenGL API: version 3.0, codename Long Peaks. While this is really good news, Khronos is still unable to communicate with the community.
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KernelTrap: Highlighting Interesting Mailing List Discussions
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"New functionality has been enabled that allows logged-in users to highlight interesting mailing list discussions. This new feature has been provided out of necessity, as I'm finding myself with insufficient time of late for keeping up with the many mailing lists I track to post articles on KernelTrap.
Read more »Free Culture: Building the world we want, not the one we have
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the and tags along with native support for Theora video and Vorbis audio are currently enabled in the Firefox nightly builds. This will ship in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 coming later this year. This is not new news but I did want to provide my perspective on why this is important[...] Download a Firefox nightly build here and test it out here or on Wikimedia Commons.
Read more »Why Vista is not ready for Linux and Mac users
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I’ve started my simulated migration from Linux to Vista already, starting my dog food challenge two days early, I will go over my findings so far, sometimes making the assumptions a new Windows user would, and mostly from the perspective of a Linux “switcher”, with a dose of sarcasm.
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