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Does FreeBSD contain non-free software in its base?

I mean binary blobs compiled by third parties. Additionally if you do pkg install, are there non-free packages considered by default?
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Why did Unix become open source/free?

Why did the original Unix versions suddenly become open source/free? It seems odd that AT&T and Bell Labs would let something like an operating system become moldable and resellable with all of the funtionality that operating systems hold,…
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100% open source linux distro

Do 100% open source linux distro's exist? i.e. distros which contain absolutely no closed source components anywhere at all? Apparently distros like Ubuntu contains bits and pieces which are closed source. Please note, I am not asking for 100%…
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Is Red Hat Linux licensed

Am confused so thought of asking a question. According to this Red Hat Becomes Open Source’s First $1 Billion Baby, it is opensourced so my question is: Where can I download the Opensource version? All web links provided point to RHEL; it is…
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Cisco Jabber for Linux?

Some people at our company are using a so called Cisco Jabber in Windows OS to improve handling of phone calls directly at the PC instead of using the telephone anymore. After installation, one has to register the client to the server just with a…
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Industrialized single device installation for personal use

For years I've been using a script to reconfigure my personal system & I was wondering if perhaps there's a better way to "industrialize" & structure my device installation. I install the OS manually & every time I run my script to reconfigure it to…
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(IP Telephony, VoIP and Video Conferencing) Ekiga configuration for LAN with same subnet

I am looking for an Open Source Voice Chat Application, like Skype, but within an isolated intranet (no Internet is available). Is there any application which can run on Scientific Linux or CentOS? Client-Server will be OK, but our need is Client…
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Web based voice chat application

I'm looking for a simple server-webclient voice chat software, but yet I only saw "voxli" and it's down. Is there any such software which could be run on a linux based server (raspberrypi actually)? I wanted a web based client because guys won't…
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Locating source files for arch linux executables

Is there a simple way to retrieve the source files that built a given /usr/bin/* command (meaning also those placed there via AUR)? Is there a command I can issue through maybe a pacman wrapper that would retrieve those files for me or is it…
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Is NetBSD 'primes' utility or equivalent available in any package on MacOS?

Is the NetBSD primes utility (or equivalent) available on MacOS in any package, other than via manual download-and-compile (e.g. curl)? I searched quite a lot and couldn't find any package (other than the NetBSD CVS source). (NetBSD primes is not a…
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Legal status of an embedded Linux case

I wanted to find the source code of embedded Linux that is used in Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.,Ltd products. For example in this page: http://apexis.com.cn/productsdetails_244.html You see they mentioned 'Embedded LINUX System' as the OS used in…
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Looking for a linux backup tool multithreaded with encryption and good compression algorithm

I am looking for a linux backup tool to upgrade my backup strategy. Today I do full backups everyday on Linux server (Ubuntu 20.04). I prefer to backup data directly inside our VMs and send to another site (not at VMware vSphere level) to not be…
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Is there any ipmitool similar software for Windows?

We know many about Linux software ipmitool, but I do not know if there is a similar ipmi management tool for Windows. Anybody can recommend one for me?
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Is there an open source POSIX PSE51 compliant RTOS?

IEEE Std 1003.13-2003 defines a set of POSIX profiles for real-time systems. PSE51 is one of these profiles. I'm studying about PSE51 and I think it would be very helpful if I had access to an implementation of an RTOS compliant with this profile.…
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Are the gstreamer packages completely open source?

I'm on Fedora 26 and I'd like to be able to play certain video formats which I can only play by installing packages from a non-free repository. However, I do not want to install any packages that are not fully open source (e.g. contain proprietary…
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