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Should internet service providers be allowed to restrict access to websites and block certain content from customers depending on how much they pay to be connected? On Tuesday, a federal appeals court said yes.

Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Obama administration and are demanding the White House stop the dragnet surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency.

Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the EFF, told the Washington Post that the NSA leaks credited to Snowden have been a “tremendous boon” to the plaintiffs in recently filed court cases challenging the surveillance state. The courts are currently pondering at least five important cases, Cohn told the Post, which could for once and for all bring some other issues up for discussion.

Despite having fewer resources and a fraction of the customers that broadband giants like Verizon and AT&T boast, one small internet service provider has resisted pressure from the NSA and refused to turn over customer data without a warrant. Xmission, an independent company based out of one office in Salt Lake City, Utah, has spent nearly two decades protecting its customers’ privacy as the National Security Agency, Department of Justice, and prosecutors have ramped up pressure on internet service providers (ISPs).

After 2+ years of work Filipe Coelho finally called it a day and released the first stable version of Carla — an audio/MIDI plugins host for Linux and Windows. Carla is omnivore indeed: it loads both LV2, VST, DSSI, and LADSPA plug-ins, and beyond that it supports GIG, SF2, and SFZ samples via FluidSynth and LinuxSampler.

Mandriva has committed itself to protecting its customers’ privacy and digital independence for years. But we would like to show you how, by using Mandriva’s technologies and solutions as well as the upcoming OpenMandriva Linux distribution, it will be possible to significantly minimize and the data collection by specific governmental agencies and even keep its privacy and the ownership over one’s own data.

For me, the release of Mageia 3 was one of the most anticipated releases of the first half in 2013, after Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Raring Ringtail. The release announcement of Mageia 3 promises of absolutely the very latest version of Linux kernel and applications, another reason for me to test Mageia's to ascertain it's stability.

On 7 August, a law was passed by the Italian Parliament that requires the use of open source software by public administrations where possible.

The state of FireWire audio interfaces support on Linux

This post was prompted by a discussion on ScientificLinuxForum. Since the subject of this post diverts significantly from the original discussion I’ve placed it here instead. The thread was initially about the release of RHEL 6.3, but discussions there have a tendency to wander, particularly since many are worried we are in the last days of free computing with the advent of UEFI lock-down, DRM-Everything and new laws which prevent the digital equivalent of changing your own oil, but this post just doesn’t belong in the thread and may be of interest to a more general audience.

The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 12.04 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.

In this review we concentrate on the interesting promise of reduced power consumption of the latest generation CedarView Atom by testing power draw of the Intel DN2800MT mini-ITX motherboard, which features a CedarView dual-core Atom N2800. We have done a series of comparative power consumption tests with various Linux distros (and used Windows 7 as reference).