Are you in control over your own digital life? It just isn’t fun to have someone else tell you what you can or can’t do with your own property, from your computer to the music you bought. This article was written to contrast the two worlds and inspire you to make the leap, escape an increasingly dystopian system.

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With arguments about changes to the GNU General Public License (GPL) still sizzling, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released a discussion draft of the new version of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). Many of the changes to the FDL mirror those to the GPL, including increased clarity of language and changes in wording to make internationalization clearer. In addition, the draft expands the license to make it suitable for audio and video, defines fair use, and introduces the Simpler Free Documentation License (SFDL), which is presented as a more straightforward alternative to the FDL. However, it seems questionable whether these changes will be enough to silence previous criticisms.

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LinuxInterviews.com has a second interview since the site launched few days ago, this time with the lead developer of BMPx – Milosz Derezynski. BMPx launched a new version of the auio player just a few days ago, dropping the Winamp-like look and choosing a new iTunes-like skinnable interface. A lengty and detailed interview.

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Today we’re going to learn all about how to understand IPv6 addressing by breaking it down into nice understandable chunks, and we’ll cover some shortcuts for writing IPv6 addresses. You’ll be able to look at an IPv6 address and understand exactly what it does.

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Voice recognition has been a dream of many for the last 10 years. It’s an illusive goal because interpreting speech is very complicated and takes a lot of computing power. Rob Reilly reviews one Linux application trying to meet the challange.

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Yesterday, the New York Times broke a story that suggested that IBM would put its entire patent portfolio on line, would post all of its patent applications as well, and finally, would call for an end to all “business method” patents. The only problem is, none of those things turned out to be true.

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The surest way to beat the competition is to start fast and stay ahead. That strategy made Taleo a 2006 Enterprise All-Star Award winner for the virtualized application infrastructure it completed in June 2005.

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The french telephone company Neuf Cegetel is giving away a free Linux PC with every broadband connection: an all-in-one box with an Intel 852 GM chip, Six USB Ports, 512 Mb of RAM, 512 Mb of Flash memory and integrated broadband modem/router and even a telephone. All for 150 euro. It will be running a custom distro containing Firefox, Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP, Gkview, Ekiga, MPlayer, and Bizanga, among other things.

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Recently I’ve been looking for an audio player that would resemble the famous Windows player called Foobar 2000. I have found a lot of clones, and just a few original applications. Mesk audio player was among the latter. Mesk left a good impression on me, especially thanks to its smart way of presenting playlists and the generally appealing interface. The only thing stopped me from leaving Quod Libet, in favor of Mesk was the lack of tray integration.

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The goal of this howto is building an NFS server that works on an SSH tunnel. This way all traffic between your hosts and the file server is encrypted and thus more secure. Normally you should enter a password every time you try to establish an SSH connection but since we could be mounting at bootup we will use ssh-keygen to create a keypair so we can login without entering a password. We will, however, limit that login session to executing just one command.

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The Metasploit Project is one of the most popular penetration testing suites available. If you’re responsible for the security of networked systems, you’ll want to become familiar with Metasploit Framework, so you can test your client PCs before someone with malicious intent does it for you. I’ll walk you through an example exploit of a Windows XP system to show you how effortlessly Metasploit can penetrate remote systems.

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Jeremy Utley has announced the release of Cross Linux From Scratch (CLFS) 1.0.0, a book that teaches how to make a cross-compiler and the necessary tools to build a basic system on a different architecture: “The CLFS Development team is pleased to announce the final release of CLFS 1.0.0, code-name ‘Bender’. This release features Glibc 2.4, GCC 4.1.1, Binutils 2.17, and supports the x86, x86-64, SPARC, PowerPC, PPC64, MIPS, MIPS64, and Alpha, including multilib on those architectures that support it. Cross-building is also supported, even from non-Linux host systems such as Solaris, *BSD, and OS X.”

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Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 159:
Author and columnist Marcel Gagne talks about his latest book
Mozilla vs Debian, who’s right?
GPLv3 is causing quite a stir in the F/OSS world
We’ll see you in Columbus this weekend
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A research team from UC Davis has been awarded a three-year, US$750,000 NSF grant to investigate the open source phenomenon.

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Since the level of software piracy in Indonesia remains the third highest in the world after Ukraine and China, a senior official says the country should “go open source”.

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The Free Software Foundation is seeking to counter recent claims of prominent Linux programmers who have argued vehemently against new features in an update of the widely used General Public License.

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The German unit of French server maker Bull said this week that it would be offering Xandros Server on its servers. Bull will also support the desktop variant of Xandros, called Xandros Desktop, on the PCs it distributes and supports in Germany.

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ReviewLinux.Com shows a short screenshot tour of the new Ubuntu Christian Edition 1.3 Linux. There is also a short video of Ubuntu Christian 1.3.

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In a move that some may have sensed was coming, Eric S. Raymond — one of the co-founders of the open-source movement — will become the newest member of the Freespire Leadership Board on Sept. 27.

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Red Hat has shared the proceedings of their recently held Knowledge Symposium titled, ” Owning the Future: Ideas and their role in the digital age”. The event organized jointly by IIT Delhi and Red Hat was held in New Delhi and was supported by the Software Freedom Law Center, CII and Creative Commons.

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The ability to install and create plug-ins is one of the most anticipated new features in the Apache Geronimo 1.1 release. This article introduces you to Geronimo plug-ins and shows you how to find them, install them, and create them yourself. Plug-ins open a new world of instant upgrades for Geronimo users. You can now download new applications and services and have them running on your Geronimo server within minutes.

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OK, “easy” really isn’t the word for heterogeneous network management. Still, with the right tools, managing Windows and Linux systems on a LAN can go from dragging blocks, to building a pyramid, to using wheels to move those massive stone blocks. Over at Linux-Watch’s sister publication, eWEEK, we recently reviewed Centeris’ Likewise Management Suite 2. This is a management program for Windows Server 2003 and W2K server managers who know how to snap an AD (Active Directory) whip, but aren’t too clear on Linux management details.

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A number of spammers have been evading filters like SpamAssassin (SA) recently by encoding their messages as images. SA already has a set of rules that are meant to combat image spam, but the more recent messages (typically for stock scams or pharmacy products) have been crafted to avoid them. This would indicate, once again, that spammers are using SA to pre-test their messages and are modifying them to get through. SA developers, however, are up to the challenge and two specific countermeasures have been released.

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Sometimes you just need to run a process in the background. Today we’re going over an easy method of accomplishing that using the full screen multiplexer program “screen” with a port forwarded SSH session as an example.

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Doing word processing without a dedicated word processor may seem like an absurd idea, but it actually makes a lot of sense, as long as you have the right set of writing tools — a solid text editor, the txt2tags utility, and Aspell spelling software.

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A little while ago, I wrote about the GWT (Google Web Toolkit) here, which I’m particularly interested in as it provides a pure Java environment that can be translated into pure AJAX-style code. This means that a Java developer can work with the GWT and create effective, lightweight, interactive websites without the need to get into how AJAX is implemented.

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Eben Moglen is a man who wears many hats: professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, and chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Last week at the LinuxWorld Conference& Expo in San Francisco, I sat down with Moglen to get an update on the draft process of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), his opinion on modified versions of the GPL, and the status of the SFLC.

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While researching a review article on free/libre and open source in healthcare, I came across some examples of attempts to integrate/bundle GNU/Linux with other health-related applications.

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Dental-On-Line, a French company selling hardware and software for use in dentists’ offices, offers full dental assistance suites and associated services. The twenty-first century dentist’s office includes a computer with a touchscreen interface for displaying a patient’s oral X-rays, photographs, medical history, treatment plans, and other information, all of which needs to be kept secure and backed up.

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Learn the method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema in this two part tutorial series. In Part 1, you learn the steps in the entire process, and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. In Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.

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