"Ourense, Spain. Jose E. Marchesi (GNU Project) will be teaching the class, which will take place at the Assembly hall of the Polytechnic Building, Campus de Ourense.
Read more »The politics of the command line
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Software is an unlikely medium for social change, and an inauspicious starting point. Free software cannot produce vaccines or treat disease. Nor can it put a roof over an orphan's head or fill an empty stomach.
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Visually Challenged show the POWER of Free Software!
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Microsoft sabotaging GPL, claims Samba
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Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.
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FSFE Fellowship Interview with Georg Greve
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Georg Greve is the founder of the Free Software Foundation Europe and has served as its president since the beginning in 2001. Marking the eight birthday of the FSFE I asked him some questions on his own background and the history of the FSFE for a special birthday edition of the Fellowship interview series.
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GNU is Not Unix, but it is 25
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In the earliest days of computers, just about everything could be considered free software. Computers were so large, unwieldy and difficult to understand that any reasonably well-written program would be passed around via punch cards or paper tape. Into that free software world Richard Stallman was born.
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GNU IceCat 3.0.6-g1 released
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"I am happy to announce the new GNU IceCat version. GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser. This new version includes the changes made in Firefox 3.0.6 ..."
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Fortify, EMC and Microsoft’s Coalitions Against GNU/Linux
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Two of Microsoft's partners are assisting its fight against GNU/Linux, which Ballmer labels biggest competitor
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 11, December/January 2009
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* LibrePlanet Conference 2009!
* FSF files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
* BadVista: We hardly knew ye
* GCC libraries get updated license exception
* An open response to Chris Frey regarding GFDL 1.3
* Updating the Free Software Definition
* More background about the Cisco case
* The bootable membership cards are (finally) here!
* 3D graphics are 100% free software
SSH at Work: Manage Long-Running Processes with screen
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"In a day of laptops and remote systems, it's often impractical to keep the same ssh session going to a specific server indefinitely. There are times when I want to reconnect from home to an ssh session that I started at work. Unfortunately, ssh doesn't support that sort of thing. But the screen utility lets you do something similar to this.
Read more »Putting freedom back in software
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"Free software movement founder speaks on software human rights ..."
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Version 1.2 of GNU ed released
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"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.2. GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation of the standard Unix line editor..."
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Tramp 2.1.15 Released
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"Hello, The Tramp team is happy to announce the release of Tramp 2.1.15. This is mainly a bug fix release. For production systems, it is recommended to upgrade to this version..."
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GCC 4.3.3 Released
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"The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3.3 has been released. GCC 4.3.3 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 4.3.2. This release is available from the FTP servers listed at: ..."
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OPINION Beyond Software Quality: The Ethics of Freedom
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"...When Raymond compare our community's industry to Gandhi's campaign for the self-rule of India from British course of action [...] he implicitly acknowledges that this is a issue of culmination a system of dominion -- a social system to be precise with integrity untrue. That is what we in the free-software movement have be proverb since 1984..."
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