An up-to-date look at free software and its makers
PROJECTS ON THE MOVE
This month we examine the Democracy Player and Gshare file sharing. We also round up the latest Debian News.
TV has achieved enormous audience penetration because it makes no demands on the user. Turning on a TV set is unlikely to be a challenge for most viewers. The problem is that broadcasting a TV program is well beyond the technical, financial, and legal means of a private person; in other words, the medium relies on a heavily biased hierarchy. The good news is that today’s broadband Internet connections give private persons and small organizations the ability to deliver their own television-style content to private households.
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News
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SCO Rises from the Swamp
Longtime litigator revives an ancient suit against IBM alleging Linux infringes on Unix copyrights.
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UberStudent Project Releases UberStudent 3.0
Specialty distro keeps the focus on advanced learning.
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openSUSE Conference Approaches
The openSUSE Conference will be held July 18-22, 2013, at the Olympic Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Drupal.org Hacked
Security breached at home sites of the CMS project.
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Oracle Takes Action on Java Security
Lead Java developer vows policy changes and more attention to fixing problems.
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Google and NASA Partner in Quantum Computing Project
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
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Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
