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How to gear up your Linux desktop for the Christmas holidays

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 11/25/2008 - 18:07

Need some Idea's or themes for dressing up your Linux machine for the holiday's. Free Software Magazine has you covered.


 

Book Review: SQL Hacks

Linux Today  Fri, 11/21/2008 - 05:03

Free Software Magazine: "SQL Hacks: Tips & Tools for Digging into Your Data by Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell sets itself apart through format, easy-going style, and ability to cover lots of tips, tricks, and hacks with Structured Query Language."


 

Book Review: C Programming: A Modern Approach by K. N. King

Linux Today  Wed, 11/19/2008 - 20:33

Free Software Magazine: "A good starting point for learning is K N Kings popular book "C Programming: A modern approach", published by Norton, which has just reached its second edition and hence worthy of a new review."


 

Unjustifiable Criticism of Richard Stallman by Linus Torvalds

Linux Today  Wed, 11/19/2008 - 12:03

Free Software Magazine: "A recent attack piece against Richard Stallman was written by Linus Torvalds on the eve of Obama's election. Black and white by Linus Torvalds."


 

Mixing Free and Proprietary Software: Not a Rosy Future

Linux Today  Fri, 11/14/2008 - 08:03

Free Software Magazine: "A recent article caught my eye and turned it a nice shade of red. It discussed the -- hardly new -- idea that the future of software usage must involve a mixture of free and proprietary products -- something the writer refers to as "mixed source".

The piece was entitled "Mixed source -- the best of both worlds" which may give you a clue as to where I disagree with it."


 

Songbird Plus Mozilla, the Ultimate Media Mashup for Your Music

Linux Today  Tue, 11/11/2008 - 08:34

Free Software Magazine: "But Songbird has one unique feature. It has a built-in browser, Mozilla, which allows it to extract maximum mileage from your music collection.

Web integration leverages your music and allows you to do some really great stuff. This article will look at the features of Songbird that make it an essential addition to any installation."


 

Symark International Named to Software Magazine's Software 500 f...

Topix - Linux  Wed, 10/29/2008 - 08:59

Symark ranks 313 - 18 places ahead of last year ' s ranking - with a 2006-07 revenue increase of more than 35.2 percent.


 

Why is The Bizarre Cathedral licence "non-free"?

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 10/24/2008 - 18:07

For 26 weeks I’ve been producing the Bizarre Cathedral strips for Free Software Magazine. Every is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commerical-Share Alike (BY-NC-SA) licence.

Recently I’ve received a few pieces of mail saying this is a “non-free” licence and questioning my use of it here.

I’m not going to change it. Here is why.


 

Updating Your System: GNU/Linux 5, Windows 0

Linux Today  Mon, 10/20/2008 - 22:02

Free Software Magazine: "Here, in no particular order, are five ways that choosing a free operating system will make system maintenance a lot easier and simpler.

In short they are ways that -- when it comes to system updates -- GNU/Linux beats Windows."


 

Supporting Your Free Software? Don't Burn Out

Linux Today  Fri, 10/17/2008 - 15:03

Free Software Magazine: "It was an understandable reaction, and in a way, kind of funny if you could understand all of the languages involved, but it wasn't exactly good public relations.

It was a sure sign of burnout. He had forgotten one important point: you are not obligated to help just because you wrote the thing."