The great guys at Packt Publishing just released the details for theirs 2011 Open Source awards. We will forgive their embracing of the term "Open Source", especially since they've given _more than $1 ...
FOSDEM - a geek trip to Brussels. Going abroad to experience different cultures. Or at least, a chance to eat chips, suffer rain, and watch American TV in a different country. If I had to sum up this ...
Seabird is a new phone concept. Its main aim is to show you how a really cool video about a really amazing device that doesn't exist yet can be used to talk about a very amazing browser, Firefox Mobil ...
Seabird is a new phone concept. Its main aim is to show you how a really cool video about a really amazing device that doesn't exist yet can be used to talk about a very amazing browser, Firefox Mobil ...
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Packt publishing is now organising the 2010 Open Source Awards. The winning projects will actually get a monetary prize (which I am sure will be most welcome). I am always a little skeptical of these ...
The fourth Italian Free Software Conference will take place in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) on June 11-12th. The main language of the conference is Italian. The Call for Papers is due to expire on April ...
#FOSDEM 2010 - A Personal Account ##(with all personal details withheld) FOSDEM - a geek trip to Brussels. Going abroad to experience different cultures. Or at least, a chance to eat chips, suffer rai ...
Hello everbody. The title says it all. The good people at SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo offered our readers a super-discount: just mention the coupon code FSM8X and receive a 40% (forty percen ...
As recently announced, the fifth Italian Perl Workshop will take place in Pisa (Italy) on October 22nd and 23rd. 120 people subscribed already, and more are expected by the first day of the Workshop. ...
I interviewed Nick Ali, one of the great minds behind the Atlanta LinuxFest 2009. See what he has to tell us, and why you shouldn't miss it if you're lucky enough to be nearby on September 19th, 2009!
Two major Perl events will take place in Italy, thanks to the effort of the Italian Perl users and the Pisa.pm users group. Here are the details!
Greetings everybody! At the moment, we are looking for tutorial-style articles for Free Software Magazine. Some of our readers pointed out that our magazine is focussing more and more on "opinions", a ...
The 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '09) will take place June 14-19, 2009, in San Diego, CA. Our friends at USENIX asked us to spread the word... so here we are. This is not a full blo ...
What's in a look? Before Apple started making immensely slick, sexy hardware, the main issues were always "specs", "graphic cards", "memory". Then, the game changed. People started buying Apple comput ...
Microsoft has recently announced that its beloved encyclopaedia, Microsoft Encarta, will soon be discontinued. After October 31, 2009 its contents will no longer be available. Both the online version ...
When the GNU/Linux revolution started reaching the masses, around 2000, I predicted that by 2010 there would be full vendor support for the free operating system. Well, it's 2009, and I have to admit ...
You have in your virtual hands the last issue of Free Software Magazine. But, this doesn't mean that FSM is closing down -- in fact, quite the opposite. However, things are changing. Let me explain. O ...
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