How do you like your freedom?

"Today (yesterday) is a special day for many people. This day, September the 19th, is of particular importance to computing tech heads, geeks, developers and even you. Yes, you. The special person you are deserves this day to also call your own (am I laying it on a bit thick? :) "

Read More: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/how-do-you-like-your-freedom-34214

How GNOME and KDE spend their money

"Quarterly reports are the stuff of business. In most people's minds, they are as far from the spirit of free and open source software (FOSS) as anyone can imagine. All the same, as non-profit organizations, many FOSS projects issue them. And while your first reaction may be to avoid quarterly reports, they can give some insights into projects, especially if you read between the lines."

Read More: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/

Editor's Note: Sexism in FOSS

"Let's begin with what this is not about. It is not about war, hunger, poverty, or any of the other evils of the world. It is not about racism, ageism, xenophobia, non-Free software, closed hardware, Microsoft, or any of the other problems in FOSS."

Read More: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-09-18-032-35-OP-CY

The Role of Free Software in Education

"On 19 September, we celebrate Software Freedom Day. At tomorrow's Boston gathering, I will have an opportunity to thank the Free Software Foundation on behalf of Sugar Labs for their support. I will also have a chance to tell the story of Sugar, our efforts to help children learn to learn and learn to love and exercise their freedom. I will also solicit your help."

Read More:  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090918110925298


More News & Articles (Just Links)

• Open Source Office Suites Are Few, But Filled with Applications
  
• GIMP 2.8 and its (huge) improvements to the User Interface!
• KOffice To Be Used In Next Generation Smart Phone
  
• 12 Excellent Free and Open Source Graphics Apps
• 15 "Really" Awesome Conky Configurations
  
• Mozilla Firefox Cleared of U.S Export Rules
  
• Sophisticated Picture Taking With gPhoto
  
• Want to try Linux, but are afraid to?
  
• Thunderbird Ups the Email Ante

Development News

G:Standard 3.0

The next and last release of GoblinX 3.0 series will be G:Standard and we are already working on it. With only few test remaining to do we expect to release it during this week

New Kernel

We need to upgrade but the new ones do not work well with latest Linuxlive scripts. We will start to work with new Kernel after we close the series and start the new project. It will not be kernel upgrades for GoblinX anymore.

Tutors & Howtos

• How to Monitor System Activity, Hardware and System information in Linux
• Create, sign, and publish your PGP key with Seahorse
• Fun with the Linux seq command
  

• More Howtos:
  
• http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/98
• http://www.shell-fu.org/index.php

Updates

No module upgraded.

Module Repository: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/goblinx/modules
Mirror#1: http://goblinx.linuxish.net/modules/
Mirror#2: http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/goblinx/
Mirror#3: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/goblinx/modules/

Some packages upgraded and added last week.

Mirror#1: http://goblinx.linuxish.net/goblinx-current/
Mirror#2: http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/goblinx/goblinx-current/
Mirror#3: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/goblinx/goblinx-current/
Mirror#4: http://www.uoc.lkams.kernel.org/pub/dist/goblinx/