Freedom Socks, free from the ground up!! A podcast about GNU/Linux and free software in general. In this sixth sockload of freedom, we decide last weeks episode never happened, turn into GNU/Freedom nutters, go over the news, unleash even more hate than usual.
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GNU screen with vertical split support
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I recently recompiled screen with vertical split support on Ubuntu 8.04. This post contains copy & paste instructions so you too can have vertical split support in screen.
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How To Become A Hacker (ESR Original)
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This is the original article written by Eric S. Raymond, and is much longer and more in depth.
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Volunteer spotlight: Yavor Doganov
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"Yavor Doganov is the translations coordinator for gnu.org and the author of GNUnited Nations, a new project which hopes to make management of translations significantly easier. He lives in Bulgaria.
Questions were asked by Matt Lee, FSF campaigns manager..."
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GNU is 25 - by Matt Lee
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"After some difficult developmental years, this September marks the 25th birthday of GNU, and we're going to be celebrating in style..."
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[FSF] Submit your nominations for the 2008 Free Software Awards
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A reminder published on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 on the info-fsf mailing-list: "Nominations are requested by 31 October 2008..."
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GNU IceCat not supported on comcast.net
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Please, don't hurt the web this way... --
*N.B: Comcast blocks P2P traffic also: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/19/comcast-actively-blo.html
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GNU sed user's manual - (last updated March 07, 2008)
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"sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits (such as ed), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s), and is consequently more efficient.
Read more »Things To Know Before Using Linux
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Linux Operating System has been myth for many of the people out there.. Most of the people has wrong inception regarding Linux. Those who dare to make the transition get caught in the partition or they failed to understand the Basics of Linux. “The applications and the OS itself” . Its pretty natural for a Mediocre user to get used to different terms at once..
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GNUnet 0.8.0b released
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"We are pleased to announce that GNUnet 0.8.0b has been released. This is primarily a bugfix release fixing major bugs as well as cosmetic issues..."
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Videocast: Richard Stallman in New Zealand
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"Richard Stallman's tour of New Zealand has covered issues of copyright and the free software movement. He is fervently against restrictions on sharing, saying such restrictions are an attack on society.
In this must-hear speech on copyright, Stallman introduces the foundation principles of the Free Software movement and then discusses the origins, uses and abuses of the laws of copyright..."
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ES4 is Dead. Long Live ES4!
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Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» --
Miles Bader: «Hopefully, an alternative...» --
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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 »Quote of the day from RMS
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RMS: «... Would you please call the system "GNU/Linux", and give us a share of the credit? We did start its developent... » --
* Linux and the GNU Project
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Why the Web is Defective by Design!
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RMS: «If you are talking about the practice of installing non-free software into a browser, the only thing that is good to offer is the reminder that you must refuse to do that.» --
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