Category: Computers
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Fairphone transparent cost breakdown
Fairphone company which aims to produce the first ethical mobile phone, revealed their “cost breakdown“, where they explain the 325 EUR price tag and how this will be divided between production and organizational costs. It is nicely presented in a graphical PDF file.
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GNU 30th anniversary
The GNU project was started 30 years ago by Mr. Richard Matthew Stallman with it’s primary goal to distribute completely free (free as in freedom) software. It includes more than 80% of the code shared by todays popular systems often mistakenly called Linux (Linux is just a kernel, which was the missing part at that…
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Utilite miniature embedded ARM computer
I was in search for a replacement miniature embedded system to serve as my home router and XBMC video platform. Currently serving this purpose is the pico-ITX form factor Raspberry PI. While RPI still uses older ARM CPU v6, the Utilite in the pro-version uses quad core Freescale i.MX6 ARM v7 Cortex A9 CPU running at 4 x 1.2…
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Trisquel GNU/Linux on my laptop
I am proud that I am now using Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution for my daily work on a laptop. It is a distribution that is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation and it is based on Ubuntu, so if you already know Ubuntu and care for more freedom, you should consider using it, too. There is…
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From Free Software to Hardware
In order to use free software successfully, we need more free (free as in freedom) hardware available. Because the computer industry requires lots of funds/investments into hardware design, many companies unfortunatelly mostly try to make their hardware proprietary. Therefore making it difficult for free software to run on them without restrictions. Here are some links…
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Richard M. Stallman about human rights
Richard M. Stallman [1][2] is an American software freedom and human rights activist and the founder/chairman of the Free Software Foundation [3][4]. These are some interesting videos from his lectures : R. Stallman Why is free software important? (7 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPPikY3uLIQ R. Stallman On threats to freedom! (8 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es1noVdsPfY R. Stallman On libraries, surveillance,…
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BGP on RPI
For the needs at my home, I use BGP on the little Raspberry PI embedded device acting as a router. Having a redundant connection ( in case of the failure on one link, another link takes over ). How is it possible ? I use the Raspbian GNU/Linux distribution, which has the required routing software called Quagga.
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Trisquel GNU/Linux
I have translated the article from English to Slovenian Wikipedia about Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution. Trisquel GNU/Linux is an operating system based on the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu.[1] The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a free version of the GNU/Linux kernel as distributed by the Linux-libre project.[2]
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VAXorcism for hobbyists
The owner of Slovenian company which worked with VAX/VMS has gifted me some vintage VAX workstations. They are MicroVAX 3100 and VAXstation 3100, which will join my collection of VAXstation 4000/90. They are being put on hold for the cold winter days, when I will use my time to play with them and upgrade them…
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Museum night
One day in a year 90% of Slovenian museums open their exhibitions without admission. The museums and galleries are opened from early morning until midnight. This year I went to see the photographic exhibitions at Museum for Architecture and Design which held selection of photographs from international art collection Junij. Secondly I went to the Jakopic…
