Moving to Linux, written by Marcel Gagne and published by Addison-Wesley, serves as a practical guide that takes the reader on a step-by-step journey into the world of GNU/Linux. This book is not for the hardcore techie, but for the person who wants to see how the common tasks they now perform in Windows can be done better with GNU/Linux.
The book’s coverA practical guide that takes the reader on a step-by-step journey into the world of GNU/Linux
Apress, O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall, No Starch Press sponsor Free Software Magazine by donating books to FSM to pay contributors with.
The title says it all: four major publishers put their money where their mouth is, and have agreed to sponsor Free Software Magazine.
Their commitment is to donate one book (max $100) for each article that gets published in Free Software Magazine (excluding book reviews and articles less than 1000 words in length).
Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.—John. F. Kennedy
I’m sure I’ll be running across a flood of news today about Microsoft’s new Xbox 360. Of course, like everyone else I know who is into games, I’m curious about this new box (and Sony’s eventual response). I’m also wondering about issues like copy prevention measures and how difficult these systems will be to “mod” to circumvent them.
Here’s some interesting news. Microsoft is reportedly opening up the file formats of its new suite, promising folks that they won’t be locked into a proprietary file format. The move reminds me strongly of Adobe’s decisions with its .PDF format. Their openness helped make PDF files almost ubiquitous. What I’m wondering is whether open MS Office formats will affect the adoption rate of OO.
Check out any web hosting service and they will probably be providing a number of different applications and technologies, most likely based on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
The most common of these technologies employed in this way are the components of the LAMP stack. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and the all-encompassing Perl, PHP and Python.
This week we are giving away a copy of Producing Open Source Software_ by Karl Fogel_.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) read our terms and conditions
2) Click on the OpenHosting link in the latest newsletter
3) Complete the following sentence:
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In a recent issue of the newsletter “The Linux Executive Report from IBM”, Ubuntu is discussed in an article titled “Moving Beyond Red Hat and Novell SUSE”.
From the newsletter:
Thanks to all who entered—there were a lot of entries for this one but there can only be one winner.
Congratulations Brandon Keepers of Michigan, USA!
Brandon has won a copy of A Practical Guide to Linux. Commands, Editors and Shell Programming.
Thanks go to Prentice Hall for this prize.
As a member of two a cappella vocal ensembles, I have been searching for several free software projects to fit some of my musical needs.
The first need is a way to print out scores of vocal music. My director often re-arranges pieces, especially old hymns, and trying to read the hand-written manuscript and sight-read is very difficult. Additionally, after copies are made into copies of copies, the quality of the page decreases dramatically. I would like a soft-copy of the vocal music for reprinting at any time, and for long-term storage.
_The two of us wrote this article together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. We have made use of everything that came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. We have been aided, inspired multiplied [1]. _
JP: Code is described as many things: it is a cultural logic, a machinic operation or a process that is unfolding. It is becoming, today’s hegemonic metaphor; inspiring quasi-semiotic investigations within cultural and artistic practice (e.g. The Matrix). No-one leaves before it has set its mark on them...
We had lots of entries this week, but as usual there can be only one winner...
Congratulations Kelly Lupo of New York, USA!
Kelly has won a copy of The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide and Samba-3 By Example.
Thanks go to Prentice Hall for this prize.
I am a free software advocate and, to a much smaller extent, a free software producer. As such, copyrights are important to me—I rely on them to stop people proprietarising free software and protecting their inherent freedoms.
I used to write a bit of music too. However, piracy was not a problem for me. The difficulty I had was getting people to listen to my music, not stopping them from copying it. A new Pink Floyd I was not.
It's been just over a year and Free Software Magazine has become an authority in the free software world.
Myself (Tony), Dave, Gianluca, Alan and others worked countless hours to create Free Software Magazine from scratch, without involving venture capitalists or investors.
We can only be happy with the result: a quality magazine on free software that gets read by thousands of people each month.
Over time, we found that even though we could publish professionally edited feature articles, we couldn't cover news in real time. In regard to real-time news:
This week we are giving away a copy of A Practical Guide to Linux. Commands, Editors and Shell Programming_ by Mark G. Sobell_.
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As I was preparing my fourth article in the "Towards a free matter economy" series (parts 1 and 2 are already published), I realized I’m continuing to flog the Python language.
In just over a year, Free Software Magazine has become an authority in the free software world.
Myself (Tony), Dave, Gianluca, Alan and others worked countless hours to create Free Software Magazine from scratch, without involving Venture Capitalists or investors.
We can only be happy with the result: a quality magazine on free software read by thousands of people each month.
On the third of September 2005, I was diagnosed with cancer—testicular cancer. The pain started during a party (Dave Guard, our Senior Editor, was there as well). In just one night, I went through a sudden and unexpected change: from being a young healthy person, full of life, and enjoying hanging out with his friends, to the ER of Fremantle Hospital being told that I may have cancer and I needed to be operated on immediately.
Ben Rockwood has a brilliant discussion about the supposed OpenSource bubble, which is itself a response to this piece by Martin LaMonica.
The truth is, I never learned much about email, nor really ever wanted to. I’ve been using it since the 1980s, and for most of that time, it just worked. So I took it for granted, just like the telephone. I spent lots of time learning how web pages work, for example, probably because that was new and exciting and visual. But not email.
Well, no longer.
