Is the Linux kernel really free, as in freedom? Or is it following the "open core" model defined by Andrew Lampitt in 2008, as claimed by Alexandre Oliva of the Free Software Foundation Latin America?
100% Free OS ? Yeah!, I mean GNU/Linux based operating systems (a.k.a distributions or distro) which is made of free softwares and of course it has no proprietary stuffs.
The openSUSE Conference 2012 takes place next week from October 20th to 23rd in Prague, Czech Republic.
When you first step into the world of Free Software, it isn’t always easy: to paraphrase Richard Stallman, we are used to “trading freedom for convenience”.
Free software is ubiquitous. It runs everywhere on (almost) everything. The question that dominated most of the discussions at the Libre Planet Conference in Boston about a week ago is what now? How can the community capitalize on its achievements to make the movement more inclusive and reconceive the relationship between free software and privacy?
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Somebody know some software for watching satellite tv on pc (linux)?
It’s that time of the year again – FLISOL, the “Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre” (Latin American free software install fest) will start in about 6 weeks! If you live in Latin America, you can join one of the hundreds of install fests happening all over the continent on April 28th.
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Linux 2.6.35.7
I’m announcing the release of the 2.6.35.7 kernel. This is only needed if you run Xen, there was a typo that caused problems. My fault, sorry.
Linux 2.6.36-rc6 Kernel Released
The Linux 2.6.36 kernel is just about here.
Hace unas semanas publique en este blog un larga entrevista que mantuvo el diario Argentino Pagina/12 con Linus Torvalds en la cual expresaba su opinion sobre muchos temas del software libre, uno de los temas tratados fue del poco uso que la gente da al termino gnu en Linux, para quienes no lo recuerden esta fue su respuesta:
–¿Por qué cree que la gente usa poco el término GNU para hablar de Linu
For what reasons the installer does not by default enable installation of third-party-software?
It has came to my awareness that the linux kernel includes non-libre blobs, necessary for rendering functional certain pieces of hardware.
Therefore, Ubuntu is fundamentally not-entirely libre -- would not it thus make sense for the install-third-party-software box during installation to be ticked
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