Here is a beautiful article which appeared in linux today  recently on how Redhat is slowly becomming another micro$oft.
click here.

Here is an interesting letter written by RMS to set rest the abuse of the word "hacker".

Another beautiful article by Kit Cosper on free-software movement.

Read this must-read article from the great  Sci-Fi author Niel Stephenson.

Here is the Linux-Equipped Astronauts Project (LEAP) page. The project goal is to get all the astronauts' software ported to Linux so that they can use Linux on their laptops in orbit. (Guess what it would replace.)

Note: The project is currently suspended pending necessary coöperation from NASA or ESA personnel. If you can help fix that, please do.

Here is Eric Raymond's Home page which is a resource for anyone interested in opensource software.

I'm inspired by the phenomenal success of the Free Software movement.

When Richard Stallman first published the GNU Manifesto, promising a complete free system, everybody thought he was crazy. Now GNU/Linux is out, a complete, free, reliable Unix-like operating system with thousands of utilities and applications, and millions of people use it, yet somehow some people still think that's the end of it. (In other words, "GNU/Linux rules". )

Anything we need, we can build. Eric Raymond began a conscious study of how and why it works: The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Since then, Chris DiBona put together a book by the people who built the best-known free software: "Open Sources".

If you have it enabled in your browser, it allows any web page you look at to take over complete control of your computer and extract any information or insert any instructions the web page maintainer wants. Is that what you want? More...

Here is the debian user list archives in tar.bzip2 format from 1999 january till date. Kudos to Raghavendra "Ragu" Bhat.

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