Fsf-friends October 2008

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Software freedom? Why? (Derek Cordeiro's blog)

by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]

01 October 2008 Software Freedom<http://www.derekcordeiro.com/2008/10/software-freedom.html> Software Freedom day is celebrated worldwide on the 3rd Saturday of September 1 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Freedom%20Day>. But in Goa, it was celebrated at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus<http://www.bits-goa.ac.in/>on the 27th(or was it a 2 day event?). I have heard people define Free/Open Source Software time and again. There are endless discussions about which Open Source license is the best. One thing that should be known to all: Open Source Software is here to stay. Open Source even mentioned in textbooks e.g. Software Engineering books like Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering by Steven Schach. But what is the easiest way to adopt Free Software on your Desktop PC? If you already use GNU/Linux or *BSD or Solaris, you already have a whole lot of free software already installed. You probably have very little non-free software. The only thing you can do to contribute is to help others(could be help new users, or help developers, etc). If you use Microsoft Windows or Mac, follow some easy steps. Use Free Software as much as possible. 1. Firefox <http://getfirefox.com/> /Chrome/Flock <http://flock.com/> for browsing. 2. OpenOffice <http://openoffice.org/> for good quality formatted text documents/spreadsheets/presentations.(at the time of writing, OpenOffice 3.0 RC3 is available) extra: Check out the openoffice extensions like the template packs I and II 3. Pidgin <http://pidgin.im/> for Instant Messaging. 4. Thunderbird <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/> for email. 5. Free Developer tools like Eclipse <http://eclipse.org/> , Netbeans<http://netbeans.org/>together with MinGW <http://www.mingw.org/> /MSYS <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys> and free libraries like wxWidgets <http://wxwidgets.org/> (If you know MFC, it is an excellent choice). 6. Java <http://java.sun.com/> is mostly Free software, use it. The most important thing though is not to discourage others from using it.(This goes out especially to fanboys who are pretty narrow minded). Sometimes I've heard people say that Linux sucks. I cannot disagree or agree -- Linux is far from perfect, but nothing really is perfect.(The same people say that Vista is awesome--I think Microsoft will not completely agree with that). Buzz up!<http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/pub/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.derekcordeiro.com%…> ShareThis <http://www.derekcordeiro.com/#> Posted by Derek J C at 3:15:00 PM<http://www.derekcordeiro.com/2008/10/software-freedom.html> in freedom <http://www.derekcordeiro.com/search/label/freedom> 2 comments<http://www.derekcordeiro.com/2008/10/software-freedom.html#comment-form> <http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=2174257787047055345&postID=25716…> http://www.derekcordeiro.com -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490

15 years, 1 month

Freedom Walk started - Walking the Walk

by Praveen A

Hi, Freedom Walk organised by Zyxware and many Free Software communities have started on October 2nd as planned. I request everyone to try find some time to join this or at least talk about it with your friends and write about it if you maintain a blog. You can keep yourself updated with the latest happenings at http://www.freedomwalk.in/ Some photos of the walk started appearing on the website http://www.freedomwalk.in/content/17/freedom-walk-day-0-photos-departure-at… http://www.freedomwalk.in/content/15/freedom-walk-day-1-photos http://www.freedomwalk.in/content/16/freedom-walk-day-2-photos Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

15 years, 1 month

Part 2 of the GNU/Linux primer

by shirish

Hi all, One of the comments fuelled a part 2 of the GNU/Linux primer. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/gnulinux-primer-2/ Some caution though, I had played with few themes before settling on this one, what do you think? Some more changes in the coming week or two are expected. Feedback, suggestions and flames all invited and encouraged. :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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