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FOSSwire - Oct 8, 2008
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and outspoken critic of anything proprietary, recently slammend ‘cloud computing’ as “stupidity” and a “marketing hype campaign”. It makes sense the Stallman …
Tagged: news, web 2 0, web services, free software, fsf, debate, discussion, stallman, cloud, cloud computing
FOSSwire - Oct 6, 2008
Linux Journal reports that the Linux operating system turns 17 years old as of the 5th of October. From Linus Torvalds’ original newsgroup posting on Linux: As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I’m working on a free …
Tagged: news, history, linux, birthday, gnu, anniversary, linus
FOSSwire - Sep 25, 2008
GNOME A major update to the free software world’s most popular desktop environment, GNOME has been released. The new version bumps GNOME to 2.24 and this new release boasts some significant new features and updates …
Tagged: news, announcement, releases, linux, gui, gnome, desktop environment, release notes, 2 24
FOSSwire - Sep 23, 2008
Beginner Ever wondered what that MD5sum and SHA1sum things are when you are downloading ISO images? Whether it’s a Linux distro, or any other file, you might have seen these ‘checksums’ floating around. Their purpose …
Tagged: windows, download, linux, tutorials, cli, beginner, iso, distro, foss on windows, checksum, tips and 38 tutorials, sha1sum, md5sum
FOSSwire - Sep 19, 2008
Beginner Watch Video Yesterday, I reported on Adobe AIR for Linux. What I didn’t do in that post is show how to install it and applications built with AIR. In this FOSSwire video special, I walk you through the …
Tagged: video, platform, flash, adobe, linux, applications, tutorial, macromedia, air, adobe air, mainstream adoption, tips and 38 tutorials
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