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TCA actively supports and promotes the use of Free Software - software that can be used, studied and modified without restriction
Free Software
Free or Open Source Software can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things.
To make these acts possible, the human readable form of the program (called the source code) must be made available. The source code can be placed in the public domain, accompanied by a software license saying that the copyright holder permits these acts (a free software licence).
For more information about Free Software, please see the accompanying links.
- Trubuntu
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Trinity customized version of the ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system - Trinian
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Trinity's customized version of the debian operating system.
- Twisted
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Trinity uses the twisted matrix framework for network programming. - Plone
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We use zope and plone extensively, and have developed a number of addon products, customizations, and hacks.
- Linux Sound
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Sound and midi software for Linux.
- Audacity
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Nice and simple audio editor.
- Ardour
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Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
- Ubuntu Studio
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A studio focused version of the popular ubuntu operating system
- Studio 64
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A debian-based studio-focused distro. Originally designed for 64-bit machines, it now has a 32-bit version too.
- Jackd
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No not the middle-of-the-road comedian, but the core of most linux based audio manipulation.
The Bristol Connection
Organisations around Bristol that use or promote free and open source software.
- Bristol Wireless
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Bristol Wireless is a volunteer run co-operative committed to social improvement through the building of a wireless computer network. - Cube microplex
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The Cube is a Microplex Cinema and venue in Central Bristol. UK. The Cube Microplex, for the past 9 years has played host to an astounding set of entertaining activities and is run by a crack group of voluntary artists-workers-enthusiasts - Bristol City Council
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Bristol City Council saved over a milion pound over a five year period by switching to star office, a suite similar to the free openoffice. - Byteback Computer Recycling
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- The Free Software Definition
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Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.
- FSFE
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Transcripts about Free Software by FSFE
- Free Software Magazine
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A free magazine for the free software world
- The Free Software Song
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Written, composed and performed by Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project in 1984, and of the Free Software Foundation in 1985.
- Freedom Defined
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Free cultural works definition
- Everybody loves Eric Raymond
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If you get it, it'll make you ROFL...
- A hacker manifesto
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There is a double spooking the world, the double of abstraction. The fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities depend on it. All contending classes - the landlords and farmers, the workers and capitalists - revere yet fear the relentless abstraction of the world on which their fortunes yet depend. All the classes but one. The hacker class. - Creative Commons
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Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." - Freecycle - Changing the world one gift at a time...
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The Freecycle Network Network to promote waste reduction and help save landscape from being taken over by landfills. - One laptop per child
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Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. - Indymedia
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Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
- Free Beer!
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No really!
