F/OSS' [Free Libre Open Source Software] is an inclusive term generally synonymous with both free software and open source software which describe similar development models, but with differing cultures and philosophies. 'Free software' focuses on the philosophical freedoms it gives to users and 'open source' focuses on the perceived strengths of its peer-to-peer development model. Many people relate to both aspects and so 'F/OSS' is a term that can be used without particular bias towards either camp.
"WPScan is a black box WordPress Security Scanner written in Ruby which attempts to find known security weaknesses within WordPress installations. Its intended use it to be for security professionals or WordPress administrators to asses the security posture of their WordPress installations. The code base is Open Source and licensed under the GPLv3."
- Iphigenie
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"Pioneer is a free space adventure game (resembling Frontier: Elite 2) set in the milky-way galaxy at the turn of the 31st century. The game is open-ended, and you are free to explore the millions of star systems in the game. You can land on planets, slingshot past gas giants, and burn yourself to a crisp flying between binary star systems. Future development for Pioneer will include many ways to make ends meet: piracy, smuggling, bounty-hunting, mining, doing missions for the various factions fighting for power, freedom or self-determination"
- Iphigenie
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Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments. Rosegarden 11.06 “Don Juan” released! With this release, the Glasgow Pitch Tracker fork of Rosegarden finally merges into the new codebase, and into mainline Rosegarden. We on the core development team have done basically nothing of interest for this release cycle, and everything here was accomplished by contributors from the community.
- Iphigenie
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"The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world. Our first product is about the size of a USB key, and is designed to plug into a TV or be combined with a touch screen for a low cost tablet. The expected price is $25 for a fully-configured system."
- Iphigenie
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"Free, open source software loses tons of prospective contributors because it is difficult to learn how and where you can fit in. OpenHatch is an open source community aiming to help newcomers find their way into free software projects."
- Iphigenie
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"This tutorial covers Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud installation from the Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition CD, and assumes a basic network topology, with a single system serving as the "all-in-one controller", and one or more nodes attached."
- Mike Chelen
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It uses Eucalyptus which supports the Amazon EC2 API. Haven't tried these install steps yet though.
- Mike Chelen
Finally a funny one » Zotero Freemium Edition "with planning cheapskate scholars will still be able to do a short article once a year" - http://www.zotero.org/blog...
"If you are not a home delivery subscriber, you will have free access to up to twenty references. If you exceed that limit, you will be asked to become a Freemium subscriber. If your birthday falls in September or you are left-handed, you will be asked to pay twice. Zotero is offering three Freemium Edition packages that allow you to choose from a variety of devices: $15 per month ($180 per year) will grant you access to zotero.org from up to five mobile devices, though the devices must only be used while physically in motion. $20 per month ($240 per year) will give you access to three mobile or stationary devices, and you’ll be able to use them while seated comfortably and on Thursdays. $35 per month ($420 per year) will let you access zotero.org from anywhere, including even the ratty old PC in your parents’ basement."
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"Today marks reaching Drupal 7's 0 critical bug milestone! We've rolled one final beta release to shake out any last minute problems and fix strings. Please help! This release includes: Upgrade to jQuery 1.4.4 and jQuery UI 1.8.6 Numerous upgrade path fixes Numerous accessibility fixes All critical bugs fixed! For the full list of changes, see the release notes."
- Mike Chelen
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"Installation Instructions Go to Applications - Ubuntu Software Center, search for springlobby and click go. Updating to newer releases Go to System - Administration - Software Sources, click the Other tab, click Add. Type ppa:spring/ppa and close the window. Allow it to reload the packages, and you will find the new version of Spring and Spring Lobby in update manager."
- Mike Chelen
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Spring is an engine built to match the classic Total Annihilation RTS games.
- Mike Chelen
"Our final Drupal 7 alpha version was released about three weeks ago. Today, we're proud to announce the first beta version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback! The jump between alpha to beta means the following: * We think that we have resolved all critical data loss and security bugs in Drupal 7. * We think that our APIs are now frozen enough so that contributed module and theme authors can start (or pick up again) their #D7CX pledges. * We think that we have caught and fixed most of the problems with the upgrade path. We were able to successfully upgrade a copy of the Drupal.org database to Drupal 7. That said, we definitely still have some bugs to shake out, and we need your help to find them! Especially new folks who haven't taken Drupal 7 for a spin yet. So please, do so, and let us know what bugs you find in the "Drupal core" issue queue (Please search incoming issues before filing)."
- Mike Chelen
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"Rejoice! Now you can become the CEO of a multinational evil energy empire on your home PC. Build as many nuclear power plants as you always wished, destroy the world's climate with coal electrification and make a big advertisement campaign to greenwash your evil plans with some wind-mills ;)"
- Mike Chelen
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"SSH provides secure access to a remote server. Both password and public key authentication are allowed. ConnectBot is an open source SSH client for Android. A key can be created in ConnectBot for use with the server. The key can be disabled at any time. This method can be performed entirely from your Android handset if you currently have password access to an SSH server. ConnectBot supports shell login and port forwarding, and file transfer is planned. Tested with ConnectBot 1.7.0, Android 2.2, and Ubuntu 10.10 Beta."
- Mike Chelen
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Sets up SSH key authentication using ConnectBot exclusively. Other methods require an additional file transfer program, or USB connection.
- Mike Chelen
"The goal of Flickr Free is to create a fully-featured, open-source Flickr client for Android devices. Current features of the app are as follows: * Log in to your Flickr account(s) to view your photostream, sets, collections and favorites. * Browse and search public Flickr photos. * Set your favorites right from your phone. * Download photos to your phone. * Upload photos from your phone. * Read and add comments for photos. * Supports multiple accounts."
- Mike Chelen
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