When I started Free Software Magazine, over 10 years ago, it was a very different world. Magazines still mattered, Facebook was a primitive site for university students, Digg was about to become a hug ...
After an additional year of production work, our free-film project "Lunatics!" is back up on Kickstarter. We have a lot more done - some "finished" animation, voice acting and soundtrack mixing, a lot ...
If you want to learn how to use GIMP, this is your chance to win a book that will teach you just that! Packt made available 5 copies of the great book GIMP Starter Guide by Fazreil Amreen. In order to ...
Packt is one of the first publishers who actively supported us back in 2005, when this mad adventure started. They were just starting up back then, and yet they invested in Free Software Magazine in s ...
The "Lunatics" project is moving on to the next stage, which is audio production -- recording voices, mixing sound effects and music, and putting it to an animatic which will be used later in creating ...
Hi there, Here are free software jobs available this week (June 19th 2012). If you are a company working on free (and open source) software, contact us on jobs@freesoftwaremagazine.com! # Sourcefabric ...
If you've been following my column for the last year or two, you already know that "Lunatics" is the free-culture animated science-fiction series that we are creating with free-software applications l ...
Today is the Free Software Foundation's "Day Against DRM" and it seems like an auspicious time to launch a Kickstarter campaign to support the completion of the Lib-Ray standard for publishing high-de ...
Congratulations to Felipe Comparini from Chile, for winning a fantastic Excito B3! Felipe was one of our many readers who sent us their answer to our giveaway question.
Hi, As you probably know, we are doing an Epic Giveaway of an Excito B3 unit. I just wanted to let you know that today, 11:59PM UTC, is the latest for you to submit your entry and win your Excito B3! ...
We at Free Software Magazine are excited to announce our very first giveaway. And we are doing so with a fantastic, invaluable free software product: the Excito B3. Yes, you can win a great Excito B3 ...
The League of Professional System Administrators and the Seattle Area System Administrators Guild are proud to present the 2012 Cascadia IT Conference. Cascadia 2012 is a regional IT conference for al ...
Free Software Magazine will shut down on January 18th to protest against SOPA. We am not sure what we will be putting on the site yet. However, the contents won't be there.
FOSDEM 2012 will take place in Brussels, the heart of EU. This is a call for talks and presentations that will take place in the Security devroom at FOSDEM 2012. Do you develop software that can do HT ...
You've just got to love those crazy Swedes. Liberal, progressive, cool and politically correct. What's not to like? They've excelled themselves this time though. As dedicated filesharers they applied, ...
This is getting seriously ridiculous. Relative to the power and feature sets computers are getting cheaper and cheaper. But they don't come much cheaper than the Raspberry Pi, a $25 computer designed ...
Following the news that the Raspberry Pi foundation was auctioning 10 of the beta model B boards on eBay comes the news a lot of people have been waiting for: they've started manufacturing the product ...
The wilder shores of the internet are awash with bizarre stories but the one I'm about to relate just has to be one of the most extraordinary things I have ever heard in relation to FOSS. You will hav ...
If you happen to be around here a lot, you probably noticed that things have changed a little: last month, we released our new web site (which is the one you are looking at right now) with a much more ...
As you know I draw/produce the Bizarre Cathedral cartoon strips for Free Software Magazine. Lately you may have noticed it's slowed to a bit of a crawl and almost a halt. This is just to let you know ...