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FSM newsletter - 18th of September 2006

Greetings, readers and subscribers, and welcome to Free Software Magazine’s new and improved fortnightly newsletter. In the past, our newsletters have consisted of article-style content that we here a ...

by admin – 9/18/2006

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Event review: Sakai day Europe

Hello world, Sakai a well-known learning management system and framework for tool building has had its first European Congress in the beautiful town of Lübeck in Germany. A relatively small campus tow ...

by Alan Berg – 9/12/2006

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Free culture events for September 2006

Welcome to the September 2006 edition of the Free Culture events newsletter - A joint project of Free Culture UK and iCommons. Free Culture is a movement that extends the logic of free software into t ...

by Tim Cowlishaw – 9/4/2006

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The state of the swag at LinuxWorld San Francisco

While at LinuxWorld, I was contemplating how IBM's multi-billion dollar investment in free software has born fruit in the form of their hard sought after two inch rubber tux, when I met up with Robin ...

by David Sugar – 8/22/2006

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Free culture events for August 2006

Welcome to the August 2006 edition of the Free Culture Events Newsletter - A joint project of Free Culture UK and iCommons. Free Culture is a movement that extends the logic of free software into the ...

by Tim Cowlishaw – 8/7/2006

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Free software events review June 2006

Summer has come. The crops in the fields are beginning to fill, the barbecues on the park are smoking away and, this being the UK, either the clouds in the sky are starting to thunder or the utility c ...

by Edward Macnaghten – 7/19/2006

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Win copies of “Python How to Program” and “Nagios: System and Network Monitoring”

This fortnight one subscriber who writes a great comment will win a copy ofPython How to Program **AND** a copy of Nagios: System and Network Monitoring. All you need to do to enter is: 1) Read our te ...

by admin – 7/18/2006

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MySQL documentation update - week 24

Documentation is a vital part of any application, proprietary or free software, as it is often the first way to communicate with users about the application or software and how it should be used. I al ...

by Martin Brown – 6/20/2006

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Free software events review May 2006

May and June have always been my favorite months. The arrival of the wild flowers on the roadside and the warmer sunshine ensure the assignment of the last thaws of winter into history, also the earli ...

by Edward Macnaghten – 6/13/2006

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Microsoft's Genuine Disadvantage

Do you need another reason today to love GNU? Check out Ed Bott's Microsoft Pushes the Stupid Button, which outlines some pretty horrific consequences of the big M's new plot to annoy lamers into pony ...

by Matt Barton – 6/12/2006

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Free culture events for June 2006

Welcome to the June edition of the Free Culture events newsletter. Free Culture is a movement that extends the logic of free software into the world of art, advocating free creativity, sharing and rem ...

by Tom Chance – 6/5/2006

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Free Software Magazine's blogs just got better!

This blog entry is to inform you about two great pieces of news about Free Software Magazine, which involve our web site and our blog section. First things first: we have just finished updating our we ...

by Tony Mobily – 6/1/2006

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Free software technology review - May

It is hard not to consider the effect that has been had on the way we share information since the widespread adoption of the internet. There are many solutions for publishing and providing data, inclu ...

by Martin Brown – 5/29/2006

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Free software events review April 2006

The showers of April have died away. As spring matures, the song birds greet the mornings of May with their music and I find that it is once again time to hand in my report on events regarding free so ...

by Edward Macnaghten – 5/17/2006

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Free culture events for May 2006

Welcome to the third newsletter listing and reviewing free culture events around the world. Free culture is a movement that extends the logic of free software into the world of art, advocating free cr ...

by Tom Chance – 5/12/2006

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Free software events review March 2006

As the March Hare sprang from the ground to frolic in the newfound warm weather of the spring season (here in the North), the free software world continued its steady but rapid advancement in the info ...

by Edward Macnaghten – 4/10/2006

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Free culture events for April 2006

Welcome to the second newsletter listing and reviewing free culture events around the world. Free culture is a movement that extends the logic of free software into the world of art, advocating free c ...

by Tom Chance – 4/5/2006

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Free software events for February 2006

February saw many free software events come to pass. These included: two major conferences, one on each side of the Atlantic; the surfacing of a couple of solutions for permitting composite window eff ...

by Edward Macnaghten – 3/13/2006

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The latest episode in the Office Wars

Lately, I’ve been hearing more and more about Microsoft’s efforts on furthering what I believe they call the “Office User Experience”. This got me thinking. Doesn’t Microsoft have a near monopoly on o ...

by Edward Macnaghten – 3/11/2006