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"Today (June 3rd, 2006) the 'Piratpartiet' is planning on a demonstration in Stockholm against the raid, and against the behavior of the Swedish police. There are several issues that are wrong with this picture. What the police, and anyone involved has done is indeed simply unacceptable. But what everyone seems to forget is that one of the issue revolving this circus is sharing of non-free software."

Nuxified.org officially relaunches using Drupal, a great and extensible piece of Free Software for web development. This is a brief description of ideas behind Nuxified.org and about it's new state.

This is a comprehensive guide to "survival" in using a famous text editor vi, written in vi itself.

"I have always been interested in Linux distributions and how they evolve, not just technically, but also in terms of their popularity and their -wanted or unwanted- position among the Linux users and on the broader market. In this regard, the Distrowatch web site is a fairly effective tool at tracking linux distributions no matter how small or short-lived they are. I think the site's online tool is actually the best one so far, and it has, in my opinion, produced the best stats concerning Linux distributions.."

Does GNU or the Free Software movement need a new and more attractive logo to help us advertise Free Software ideas?

Our OpenOffice.org insider reveals that OpenOffice.org marketing project is about to be revamped: "This initiative, called «WHY OpenOffice.org?» is the answer of the community to some (rather justified) critics that it has so far not achieved the same level of marketing efficiency as its cousin, the Mozilla community. So much for the critics, because the Marketing Project of OpenOffice.org is going on a slow but assured pace towards change."

Is Eric Raymond and the RTFM jerk crowd driving away good contributers and users from free software? That is what I am beginning to wonder. I think that a lot of people don't want to get involved because the community comes across as a bastion of unrepentant meanness.

This is a comprehensive user friendly guide to setting up your own firewall on GNU/Linux.

Charles Schulz of the OpenOffice.org Native Lang confederation comments on the latest happenings on the Office scene, such as Microsoft's press release about MS Office 2007, and talks about the future of OpenOffice.org.

Libervis.com is doing a community interview with Simon Phipps, the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems. Our interviewing process is open and cooperative inviting everyone that wants to propose a question to be asked in a final interview.

On March 8th and 9th 2006, Richard Matthew Stallman is to hold a couple of lectures in Zagreb, Croatia as part of the series of lectures named "Society of Knowledge and Free Sharing of Information" ("Društvo znanja i slobodna razmjena informacija") as announced by the Multimedia Institute in Croatia and the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARnet).

"In this article we aim to focus on the position which Free Software movement has in this more broad Free Culture movement, and to emphasize the reasons to why Free Software needs to be an integral part of Free Culture, that we wish to create and cultivate."

A long time debian user prepares to switch to another distro and considers Fedora Core. Here is his story.

"At this time, Microsoft may not be sleeping, but then again it may be. If nothing else, it is distracted and we have a chance to gain some advantage here. Microsoft finds itself in quandary and a series of legal distractions."

The next GPLv3 conference has been announced on info-gplv3 mailing list and will be held as part of the Free Software Forum 7.0 in Porto Alegra/RS, Brazil from April 19th to April 22nd.

Almost two months ago a new Free Software support forum site has been quietly launched with the goal of being completely community driven, exclusively Free Software powered and, as part of Libervis Network, with no contradictory and annoying advertising.

Byron Miller is the founder and owner of Mozdex.com, an open search engine that uses Free Software/Open Source technology and aims to provide full transparency about the operation of the engine and generation of search results. As a Free Software/Open Source advocate he also runs for congress in USA. Libervis interviewed him about Mozdex.com and his views on Free Software and Open Source.

This is a follow up to the previously published article "Ubuntu: derivative or fork?" written in an attempt to "clear up" the issue and point to the freedom as the uniting value of Free Software community. It takes into account the response to the first article and the poll results on the question it was asking.

Ubuntu is based on Debian, and is intended primarily for Linux newbies who use it mainly as a desktop. In short, it's a well-polished Debian distro, with fewer customization capacities and an excellent hardware detection. But Ubuntu is much more than that. Ubuntu never positioned itself as a Debian derivative, like Xandros, or Mepis, or Knoppix.

I am happy to report that Nuxified.com has just been officially launched. It is a new web site for all existing and aspiring GNU/Linux users to share stories about experiences from migration to usage of a GNU/Linux operating system as well as "show off" stories of your current GNU/Linux setup and customizations you may have made to it.