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All for beginners about Mandriva, formerly known as Mandrake Linux an easy-to-use and innovative operating system. It is one of the most popular Linux editions in the world. Th...

The easy way to run operating systems without messing up your system GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your h...

Stick with the familiar Microsoft Windows, or try the stable, secure, but unfamiliar GNU/Linux-based operating systems that have recently started taking off. There are two big ...

To properly license open source source code, the license agreement must be included prominently with the source code.

A good alternative to Ubuntu Debian is well respected as a stable server distribution, and most of the reviews focus on aspects appropriate to server deployments. This article...

A tutorial for novices that discusses processes and process related commands including ps, top, grep, fuser, more, jobs and kill. our GNU/Linux computer is an amazing machine....

Just consider: the GNU Project starts developing an operating system, and years later Linus Torvalds adds one important piece. The GNU Project says, "Please give our project eq...

While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas . In 1998, some ...

We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software. Free software is a m...

There are general reasons why all computer users should insist on free software. It gives users the freedom to control their own computers--with proprietary software, the compu...

Apologists for proprietary software like to say, `` free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can produce reliable products. A bunch ...

Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible ...

The GNU Free Documentation License The biggest deficiency in free operating systems is not in the software--it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in ...

I grew up in a community whose other members committed crimes as serious as murder. The city of New York, with its 8 million inhabitants, had hundreds of murders each year, mos...

Introduction The existence of software inevitably raises the question of how decisions about its use should be made. For example, suppose one individual who has a copy of a...

Developed by Commons and the APC, this guide provides civil society organizations with both an introduction to open source and a framework for finding software that will meet t...

The GNU General Public License ( GPL ) is one of the most widely used software licenses - and, undoubtedly, the most misunderstood.

Here is a glossary of various categories of software that are often mentioned in discussions of free software. It explains which categories overlap or are part of other catego...