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"Facebook is a surveillance engine, not friend" Times of India Two, don't say Linux but say GNU/Linux. Dr Stallman, who started the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to promote freedom to create, share and modify software, is extremely sensitive to whether the goals of his initiative are rightly communicated. All proprietary software are malicious: StallmanIBNLive.com all 6 news articles »

Gnu's Tube City Photos and Recap Snowboarder Magazine (blog) The glorious blue skies had shown themselves at the first ever Tube City competition at Snoqualmie. Jibbers from all around Washington showed up, but mostly local Seattle folk made up the fierce group of competitors, hungry to slide and spin around on ...

Parabola GNU/Linux: Freedom Packaged OS News In this article we are going to look at the most recent entry on the list - Parabola GNU/Linux. It doesn't allow installation of non-free software (obviously). Additional repository "libre" is used for completely free versions of packages that are ... and more »

GNU Project renews focus on free software in education SDTimes.com By SD Times Newswire The GNU Project today announced the relaunch of its worldwide volunteer-led effort to bring free software to educational institutions of all levels. The newly formed GNU Education Team is being led by Dora Scilipoti, ...

Linux: A Getting-Started Guide PCWorld Linux is a Unix-like open-source operating system that uses the Linux kernel as its base and comes packaged with basic software, including a lot of components from the GNU (pronounced Guh-new) project. There is some debate among Linux users about ... and more »

GNU Project renews focus on free software in education
The GNU Project today announced the relaunch of its worldwide volunteer-led effort Visit website for full story...

The GNU Education Project
FSF: The gnu.org website has been enriched with a completely renewed section on education

* Parabola GNU/Linux: Freedom Packaged *
There are different reasons people use Unix-like operating systems, including configurable, availability free of charge, powerful command line interface an many more. Some people are motivated by the moral issue: they reject non-free software. Specifically for such users Free Software Foundation developed Guidelines for Free System Distributions and created the list of absolutely free ("as in ...

Very Early Release Gnu Impossible Asym Sym Sync Pickle Arrives Mid-February 2012
In a special very early release coming out mid-February 2012, GNU re-evolutionizes snowboarding with the most technologically advanced snowboard ever, the new GNU Impossible Asym. Sym. Sync. Pickle.

TLWIR 32: Open Sparks Fly, FOSS Players Give Open Advice, and FOSS Petition Gets Key Endorsement
BeginLinux: "For too long, GNU/Linux has been locked out of the tablet market. That is about to change with the May 2012 arrival of the Open Spark."

GNUnited Nations 0.5 Released
GNU.org: GNUnited Nations (or GNUN for short) is a build system for www.gnu.org translations, supposed to make translators' lives easier.

Mandriva lives to fight another fortnight
The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog. Chief operating officer Jean-Manuel Croset said that an "external entity" that had expressed an interest in buying the company had not been able to do so because of objections by a minority shareholder. Mandriva announced last month that due to disagreement ...

SDG Systems Announces Trimble Yuma® with GNU/Linux®
SDG Systems announced today the availability of the Trimble Yuma rugged tablet computer running the Linux operating system. The Yuma with Linux provides an open source alternative for field data collection, military or industrial applications.Harmony, PA (PRWEB) February 02, 2012 SDG Systems, LLC announced today the availability of the Trimble Yuma rugged tablet computer running the GNU/Linux ...

Windows 8 will lock out GNU/Linux on ARM devices
Microsoft has made it clear that it will use the secure boot feature available with Windows 8 to lock out other operating systems from ARM devices which are running this version of its operating system.

Decision on Mandriva shutdown delayed
The French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has earned a stay of execution with an "external entity" expressing an interest in acquiring the company, according to the company blog A post by the company chief operating officer Jean-Manuel Croset said: "We would like to inform that a proposal to acquire Mandriva has been submitted by an external entity. As required in such a situation, the major ...