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After several years of slacking by everybody involved it finally happened: backports.org has become backports.debian.org. For that to happen several things had to get changed and streamlined, so please make sure to read this announcement to avoid too many surprises.

If you've ever been gridlocked in a group decision-making process, you know how quickly things can go from frustrating to downright unwieldy. Even with a common goal in mind, it's easy to get bogged down in data and competing opinions.

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Mozilla has recently released the fourth beta of the Firefox 4 browser. I have been testing it since the first beta and I am happy to see the progress and the addition of new features with each beta.

Nice demo of the many capabilities gained by Dolphin since its debut in KDE 4.0.

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The Software Freedom Law Center plans to create a new branch in New Dehli India to further expand their coverage of FLOSS and legal defense of free software. Mishi Choudhary will oversee the SFLC's New Dehli office.

Zentyal, a Linux distribution formerly known as eBox Platform, is a server distribution which can be used as a network gateway, unified threat manager, office server, infrastructure manager, and a unified communications server. By default, it is installed on an LVM-based disk partitioning scheme, but in a manner that is not optimal.

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Shyam Karanattu Interviewing Richard Stallman for Amrita TV.

To orchestrate change you need someone who can balance vision with pragmatism. In Eben Moglen the proponents choreographing the software patents debate have such a leader.

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Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. The new release provides many new noteworthy features, most notably the addition of a compiler and virtual machine. We encourage you to test them and provide feedback.

We will continue to use Toy Story character names for squeeze's successor. The next release will be called "wheezy" (the rubber toy penguin with a red bow tie), and will be Debian 7.0.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the sixth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

Usually when we talk about programs for editing images we think to graphic programs such as The Gimp or photoshop, but they are not the only alternative.

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this a post describes about recovering the grub 2. This problem usually happens when some other operating system on its installation overwrite the MBR..

Terminal is the power tool that every linux user may have to come in contact even once in their computer life. Here is a post about controlling and managing your system using the gnome terminal.

Since August is nearly over, it is time for an update and answers to some questions. We have been coding. We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th.

I don't know about you, but I've found it hard to follow the various patent lawsuits involving Apple, Nokia and HTC. First there are so many cases filed all over the place, it's hard to understand the big picture. And I kept asking myself what it was all about. I mean, what's it all about really?

You’ve probably seen the advertisements for Windows 7 and the tiling windows feature. KDE refines the same feature and ads it into 4.4.

Mozilla maintains its anti-patents stance and Red Hat could take a lesson from Mozilla

Earlier this month we delivered benchmarks comparing the ZFS, EXT4, and Btrfs file-systems from both solid-state drives and hard drives. In this article we have our Btrfs test results when the zlib compression mount option was enabled for looking at the SSD compression performance.

Calls from within the United Kingdom to facilitate a promised migration to Free software, via international standards such as ODF