In November, you’ll be able to buy a new laptop that’s spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It’s fanless, it’s silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading.
Read more »Community - free software in the global community - people, interviews, opinions, activism, events and community adoption of free software. In other words, the whos, whens and wheres of free software.
New York Times: Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience
http://www.nytimes.com –
Free Software as a Social Innovation
http://zak.greant.com –
"The Free Software Foundation Europe and M6-IT are presenting a one day event called “Free Software as a Social Innovation” at The Hub in London on the 2nd of November..."
http://www.france.fsfeurope.org/projects/stacs/london
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Why My Mom Can Use Ubuntu (read: Why linux is Better than Windows)
http://troubledramblings.com –
Yes, that’s right; my mom is an Ubuntu user. She has been for about a year now (since Edgy). This is the story of how it all got started.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Free Software Magazine's Issue 20 is out
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
Free to read online and free to download. There's 19 new articles to peruse.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
New York Times: The Next Leap for Linux
http://www.nytimes.com –
LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day. It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices. But why would anyone want to use Linux, an open-source operating system, to run a PC?
Read more »OpenOffice.org community conflict leads to fragmentation
http://arstechnica.com –
In a blog entry posted yesterday, developer Kohei Yoshida expresses his frustration with Sun's excessively bureaucratic specification process and unwillingness to compromise and communicate with members of the community. Yoshida invested a tremendous amount of personal time developing a sophisticated optimization solver module for the OpenOffice.org Calc program.
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
VIdeo of RMS' speech in Gothenburg
https://www.fsfe.org –
"On the 16th of may 2007, Richard Stallman gave a speech on the subject of Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works..."
Read more »Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero"
http://hardware.slashdot.org –
"James Burgett of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center calls himself a 'tattooed freak' and a recovering drug addict, but CNN is calling him a hero (video) for diverting tons of computers from landfills, installing Ubuntu Linux on them, and giving them out to schools, non-profits, and poor people.
Read more »
History of Calc Solver
http://kohei.us –
This is an explanation of the news post (http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Sun_Refuses_LGPL_for_OpenOffice_Novell_...) you should read it before you read this...
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks
http://slashdot.org –
"Kohei Yoshida wrote a long post on the history of Calc Solver, an optimization solver module for the Calc component of OpenOffice.org. After three years of jumping through Sun's hoops on his own time, Sun says it will duplicate the work because Kohei doesn't want to sign over ownership of the code. Adding insult to injury, Sun then invites him join this duplication.
Read more »PCLinuxOS Magazine October 2007 Released
http://www.pclosmag.com –
PCLinuxOS Magazine, October 2007 (Issue 14) is available to download. We apologize for the delay in this release; final touches on the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website helped prevent us from releasing yesterday. If you'd like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Help spread the word about Ubuntu
http://fridge.ubuntu.com –
Adding the Ubuntu countdown timer to your website is easy! Just copy and paste the following lines into your webpage and each day the image will update showing the days remaining before the release.
Read more »
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Future of Firefox and JavaScript
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
The Security of Free Software
http://www.libervis.com –
"With this article I want to point out how Free Software provides a secure environment and how important the community is. Security is not only limited to "technology to keep crackers away from your data", but it also is about secured freedom. Just as laws in many countries secure that you have the right to voice out your opinion, Free Software secures its own freedom through its licenses."
Read more »Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Torvalds dubs security people "insane"
http://www.theinquirer.net –
UBER geek Linus Torvalds is on track to win this year's Dr Spinola cudmugeon of the year award after dubbing people who disagreed with him as "wanking around".
Read more »- Login to post comments
