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Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation

13-Feb-10

As planned, I did my talk about the thriving fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement at yesterday’s FSFE Berlin Fellowship meeting. I started with the basics of the Free Software ideal, moved on to the problematic issues concerning mainstream GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian and then discussed the solutions to these problems. I also [...]

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Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation Next Week

05-Feb-10

I will be giving a talk about the fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement in the Free Software Foundation Europe’s Berlin meeting on Thursday, February 11th, next week. The talk will start at 19:30 in the Newthinking Store, Tucholskystraße 48. Hopefully, we will have a chance to continue discussing the topic over a few beers right [...]

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Greg K-H’s Little Kernel Nutshell and Gluing PDF Files with Ghostscript

13-Sep-09

It has been a chaotic couple of weeks, but I’m finally settling in Berlin. Although I haven’t found my final home yet, I finally have a reliable Internet access thanks to a little 3G USB modem. (Andreas Gohr’s blog post helped greatly in straining out some details of wvdial configuration for the German T-Mobile.)
I have [...]

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Linux-libre 2.6.29 for Debian, Ubuntu and gNewSense

13-Apr-09

I have just uploaded installation packages of Linux-libre 2.6.29.1 that you can find here. They should install and run fine on Debian Lenny, Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid and gNewSense deltah.

The Linux-libre Project purges Linux releases from non-free binary blobs. It also just started guaranteeing users’ freedom by not loading external binary-only firmware that was possible in previous [...]

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Beta Testing Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04

04-Apr-09

I own a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s with Intel GMA X4500 series graphics chip that I wanted to use with an additional monitor for some time. Because this chipset is quite new, it didn’t perform well in gNewSense 2.1 which is based on Ubuntu Hardy. So I settled with the then just released Debian Lenny because [...]

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FUSBi 0.3.1 released!

22-Nov-08

What is FUSBi?
FUSBi, the Free USB Installer, is a nifty, little application that creates bootable images of free GNU/Linux distributions on USB drives (or hdd if you want).
You choose one of the supported distro releases, and FUSBi will automatically download the ISO image and create a bootable image of it on your USB drive. You [...]

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