"The licenses of the GNU coding standards and maintainer documents have been upgraded to GNU FDL version 1.3 or later. Other GNU documentation using the FDL should do the same at the next release..."
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GNU TLS preferred instead of OpenSSL
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"Today I finally decided to work out this element of our task list. We are happy that now MyServer can be distributed under the GPLv3 terms license without any exception. Previously we were using OpenSSL for the HTTPS protocol, it was giving us some licensing troubles as we needed to add an exception to the original GPLv3 license..."
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GNU IceCat included into Ubuntu
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Graziano Sorbaioli: « On the gNewSense forum there is a topic about including GNU IceCat in Ubuntu. Someone asked Ubuntu developers to include it in the repositories for the Intrepid Ibex release but they said no... »
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GIMP 2.6.2 released | Ubuntu 8.10 with GIMP 2.6
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"GIMP 2.6.2 has been released and brings some bug fixes and updated translations: ..."
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FSFE Newsletter
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"This was an important month for Free Software. Not only was Software Freedom Day held (as always) on the 20th, but this years marks the 25th anniversary of the GNU Project. Celebrations took place across Europe and our Fellows continued to support Free Software in local areas with enthusiasm and passion. Other important events took place.
Read more »Mandriva Linux 2009.0 Review : A Mixed Bag
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Mandriva has gained huge reputation for delivering easy to use Linux distro with support for many multimedia and proprietary format. Earlier when Mandriva was known as Mandrake, it was the most popular GNU/Linux but some unavoidable circumstances turns the table towards Mandriva and after that Mandriva didn't stood up like it used to..
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I met Richard Stallman
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"Yes, I seriously did have the opportunity to meet him personally, and listen to his speech on the Free Software Movement. Let me attempt to explain the experience, and how it came to be..."
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GNU Screen
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"The key to being an effective administrator is understanding the software that you administer. Software administrators are nothing more than employees who are well rounded in software applications, their versions, how they are configured and installed and lastly how to troubleshoot them should something go wrong.
Read more »New Xfce beta focuses on usability
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Xfce version 4.6 is shaping up to be more significant than most minor releases. Besides fixes and enhancements that are invisible to the casual user, the first revision in almost two years of GNU/Linux's third most popular desktop includes numerous changes to applications such as the calendar, mixer, and logout dialog, a new configuration engine, and usability changes to the desktop.
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Freedom Socks - Episode 9 - Evil Urghhh Liberty Attack
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Freedom Socks is a podcast (availible as ogg varbis and mp3) all about free software and GNU/Linux in particular.
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"GNU Smalltalk 3.1 has been released at [...] Compared to the 3.0.x branch, focus on porting libraries from other Smalltalks, adding bindings to other external libraries, and facilitating the creation of C/Smalltalk interfaces..."
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Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software (last updated $Date: 2008/10/07 06:48:57 $)
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RMS: «When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes [...] As the advocates of open source draw new users into our community, we free software activists have to work even more to bring the issue of freedom to those new users' attention.
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The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie
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How to remove Mono from GNU/Linux and why Microsoft is lying about Silverlight
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‘Addiction’ Battles for Microsoft in China and Africa
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Predatory pricing strategy in poorer nations that are low-hanging fruit to GNU/Linux
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I have a dream: Emacs/Firefox on GNU/Mozilla systems
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Mitchell Baker: « We started a conversation a while back about two year product and technology goals. I’d like to return to that discussion...» --
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