Tag Archives: fsf

The incoming Secureboot/Restrictedboot war

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

For those who aren’t aware of this, FSF (Free Software Foundation) has been running a campaign for the last few months about Microsoft’s malicious Secureboot initiative (which FSF calls restricted boot). Given the mostly Microsoft friendly corporate IT environments out … Continue reading →

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Getting more printable PDFs from texinfo manuals

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Texinfo manuals are used primarily by various GNU projects like Glibc, gcc, gdb, etc. Texinfo is an extremely powerful format for writing high quality professional documentation and can be easily converted to HTML, PDF, Docbook XML and various other formats. … Continue reading →

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Mark Shuttleworth on free and “non-free” Linux distros

Posted on January 19, 2007 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Mark Shuttleworth writes in this blog post on a topic I get really emotional about: We have to work together to keep free software freely available. It will be a failure if the world moves from paying for shrink-wrapped Windows … Continue reading →

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