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In this way people [...]

Last 2nd of March I’ve decided to take advantage of the Get the OpenSolaris Starter Kit! promotional campaign by Sun.
Yesterday, the 13th of April, six weeks later the dvds are arrived and now are watching me imploring to be run somewhere … unfortunately I’m in a deep work period and my i386 pc isn’t available [...]

Historic victory of the “Associazione per il Software Libero” in italian courtyards

My italian fellows at “Associazione per il Software Libero” have announced their victory in legal courtyards. They’ve decided to appeal a call for tenders for the supply of an amount of Euro 4.539.184,55 of Microsoft software licenses before the court (Regional Administrative Tribunal [...]

Have you heard about Eric S. Raymond leaving the Fedora project ?
If you - like me - are into “Linux” probably yes.
Well … what about the Alan Cox answer ?

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:03:50AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
* Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats with any attitude other [...]

My friend Giorgio (who I thanks for the use of the image in the post) has highlighted the OSAlt.com site. What does it do ?
Simple answer: it enables you to search for open source software alternatives to a certain proprietary software that’s know to fullfill the task you want to do. You can search [...]

The 22nd of last december Ubuntonista made to his readers a simple yet a potentially controversial question:
Do you blog about Ubuntu ?
In fact even if he was well aware of the existence of Planet Ubuntu - an online aggregator of the official members of Ubuntu projects (or prominent people that works for important components [...]

Due to some private life events last week I forgot to share the news that the italian Mandriva users community run by ILDN has gotten the official baptism from the Mandriva Club to be THE italian forum for its community.
Myself is a long time user of the MandrivaItalia.org forum, and actually i do collaborate [...]

Sometimes unfortunately I have to run Microsoft Windows and in those dark lands you need and antivirus (or an anti-whatever!).
In this post I want to give space to the one I use on my laptop which is - remember - the only MS machine I own.
Enter CLAMWIN, which comes directly from the so [...]

One of the most appealing aspects of Mac OS X to me, coming from seven intense years of Microsoft and GNU/Linux computing, is the possibility to run seamessly in my beautiful operating system a huge amout of free (as in Liberty) software coming from a number of resources.
Sometimes it comes from the Fink project, [...]

I was preparing a little post for the italian OSSblog.it site (of which i am a contributor) and I could not resist to make a laugh and so here I am:

Thanks to my pal Fullo who at 1.29 am supports me in my crazyness
hint: if you don’t know what the IceWeasel discussed here is, [...]