All about Linux
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| You've heard about Linux. It powers everything from servers to mobile phones,
| can be found in schools, governments, industry and homes, and a good chunk of
| the internet’s infrastructure is powered by it. CHOICE Computer’s Editor even
| runs it at home!
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http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=106268&catId=100276&tid=100008&p=1&title=All+about+Linux
http://tinyurl.com/56rsp5
Driving Science Forward With Crowd Power
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| Crowdsourcing Science
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| Project BudBurst, a national field campaign for "citizen scientists," is
| designed to help record how the planet is warming by tracking the dates that
| 60 plant species leaf and flower this spring and summer.
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| Students, gardeners and interested residents of the 50 states enter their
| observations into an online database.
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| After a trial run in 2007 that included reports from 26 states, the project
| is in full swing this year with thousands of people signed up.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62540.html
Related:
Free Software Foundation's Stallman Sets the Record Straight
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| "Most operating systems were developed for commercial or technical
| motives, but GNU was developed for the sake of giving users the
| freedom to cooperate in a community," said Richard Stallman, founder
| of the GNU Project. "If users don't know this, they will be in danger
| of losing their freedom."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/qcRJVgbO8fUXJY/Free-Software-Foundations-Stallman-Sets-the-Record-Straight.xhtml
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