Source: TuxJournal.net - Posted by Vincenzo Ciaglia
1) Let's start. Can you explain to our readers why you started with FSF in 1984? What did you need of? Why you created it?
What I started in 1984 was the development of the GNU operating system. All the operating systems for modern computers of the day were proprietary; users were forbidden to share them, and could not get the source code to change them. The only way to use computers in freedom was to replace those systems with a free operating system. That's what GNU was meant to do. The Free Software Foundation was started in late 1985 to raise funds for GNU development, and more generally to promote free software. Read more at TuxJournal.net
Source: tuxjournal.net - Posted by Vincenzo Ciaglia
An Italian web magazine, TuxJournal.net, has published an interesting interview with Richard Stallman. The interview deal of GPL news, Free Bios, Software Patents and much more. It could be interesting for each GNU/Linux user.
Source: securitypipeline.com - Posted by Vincenzo Ciaglia
very person or organization that spends time surfing the Web faces the risk of spyware and viruses. For those who spend time investigating sites that specialize in child pornography and other illicit material, the risk is even greater. That's why software to protect their machines is crucial. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Wednesday began migrating its systems to Active Directory. That deployment had been on hold because of the large quantities of spyware, pop-ups, and other malicious software the center's workers ran into as they investigated potentially illicit Web sites, according to Steve Gelfound, director of IT at the center.
Source: networkingpipeline.com - Posted by Vincenzo Ciaglia
Making phone calls using a broadband Internet connection, more fondly known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), is becoming more and more popular with corporations of every size. The prospect of paying a flat fee for unlimited long-distance phone calls is appealing to every company that has struggled to balance the need to conduct business phone calls with the price of those calls. Calling plans are now available that provide unlimited minutes to any U.S. or Canadian phone number by routing the voice traffic over an existing broadband connection shared with the company's Internet access.
Source: securitypipeline.com - Posted by Vincenzo Ciaglia
From bloggers to multi-billion-dollar tech vendors, the Internet community gave its money and resources to help victims of the Asian tsunamis. Here's a roundup of our stories on the subject, including moving reports from a blogger who described the toll via cell-phone text messaging, and other bloggers who wrote what they saw from the scene of the carnage.
The number of blogs and the use of blog readers rose rapidly last year--but a majority of Americans still do not know what a blog is. A report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, called the "State of Blogging," discovered that readership of Web blogs--essentially, Web-based diaries--spiked 58 percent last year, with 27 percent of Internet users, or 32 million people, saying that they read blogs. Twelve percent of people who read blogs also chose to post comments on them.
The year of the penguin, some people hailed 2004 at the turn of the year. And in many ways it was.
Was it because the march on the server space continued at a relentless pace? Because there were big announcements around desktop installments? Because there was finally some realistic perspective about the threat from SCO, or the threat to Microsoft? However you look at it, the penguin's tux has never looked more pristine or ready for business. So here we'll take a stroll though the last 12 months that sharpened the creases and quickened the pace of the Linux-based platforms.
