If you read the lyrics of the song "Looking for Freedom" with an imaginative mindset you could find that it could have been written by a windows developer trying to escape the control of and dependance on MS.
I have rewritten the text to reflect those who are using Linux and Open Source.
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I just typed that title, and now I'm looking at it hovering above this sentence in ABIWord. The word 'webbies' is underlined in red, the word hippies is not, because it checks the spelling, see. What a metaphor! 'Hippie' is recognized, webbie is not.
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Clem and crew have done nothing less than a magnificent job in creating a superb Linux Distro. But now they've went and done it...they can't be happy with remaking one distro into something better...they have to set their sights on another distro. Here's what's rubbing many against the grain. It's Fedora Core. They are going to make a "Mint Flavor" Fedora.
Read more »The world biggest Open Source contest, the Le Trophees Du Libre 2007, with over 60,000 Euro in prizes named the winners for each of the categories. The goal of the contest, which is sponsored by the Free SOftware Foundation, Cetril, the EU, IBM and numerous other sponsors, is to promote promising Free Open Source Software.
Read more »"Slashdot points to an interesting list of first 100 registered domains. But I doubt whether even the most deep-dyed supporter of free software realises that it was the company behind the very first domain - Symbolics.com - that ultimately led to Richard Stallman to start his GNU project..."
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So what prompted me to show such a deep interest in a product after reading for only 5 minutes about it? It was the open nature of the product’s design philosophy on both hardware and the software front. It is hacker-friendly, easily customizable, *built on the Linux platform and hence guaranteed to attract a large user and developer community.*
Read more »Novell has released version 1.0.0 of their free Radeon r5xx/r6xx AMD/ATI drivers. This is their first full release of these drivers. There is currently no 2D or 3D acceleration.
This represents the first fully-free driver based on the recently-released Radeon hardware specifications.
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We have just finished the cross-over from our old site which ran on Pligg to our new site which runs on Drupal + some of our own custom modules.
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WE SAT with Pablo Cecconi from GIS unit at Buenos Aires government to learn more about the city's official map site, built with and running on open source software. He tells of its story, budget worries, hiring challenges and overloaded servers.
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I read a recent post called “Why I Won’t Be Recommending Linux to Family this Holiday Season.” The funny part is, the real reason…he doesn’t want to take the heat for telling them to use Linux and have something go wrong! Wimp!
Read more »The one laptop per child (OLPC) project, a brainchild of MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, will soon find its way into Indian homes.
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Despite slower-than-expected sales and tough competition from commercial rivals, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge is enjoying a surge of new orders.
Read more »This week, Uruguay became the first-ever real, non-pilot deployment site of OLPC XO laptops. And I was there to hand out the first one.
Read more »"Ever since I started on this "Wicked Cool Emacs" project with No Starch Press, I've run into all sorts of amazing geeks who have been working on something similar. [...] I would love to work on this book with other people. I think that it would become an even better book than I could write by myself, just as Emacs is better because all these people have worked on it.
Read more »Set a goal of having at least one fully open system for home users by the end of 2010! This would be Dell's greatest endeavor yet!
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