Archive for March, 2010
Announcing Netrunner!
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Netrunner on March 31, 2010
Oh snap! I have the honor to officially announce a new distro: Netrunner! This is something that’s been cooking for a while now and we are finally ready to serve it up to a hungry world! Highlights Here’s the bullet points: Based on Ubuntu GNOME Includes Wine by default No Mono Some QT/KDE apps by [...]
Murphy’s Law and Melton’s Query
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on March 31, 2010
Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will. Also, a column for Maximum PC. Melton’s Query: This jackass gets paid to write for a magazine, why can’t I? Right, so the Murphy’s Law headline is “Stop Supporting Open-Source Bloat“, where the author goes on to decry shady tactics of several programs, like: Revo Uninstaller Digsby [...]
On Comments
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on March 31, 2010
I’ve been thinking about comments and conversations lately. First, I read Matt Asay’s “Should we be having this conversation on Twitter?” post, where he expresses his preference: I therefore prefer the discussion that arises out of a blog, but is conducted over Twitter. It’s hard to remember to go back to blogs I’ve written to [...]
Citrix: Open Source Does Not Mean Interoperable or Compatible
Posted by Jason in Propriatery Technology on March 30, 2010
An interesting exercise in spin submitted for your amusement. This is ultimately another “let’s point out a software problem that applies to both Open and Closed Source and pretend like it only applies to Open Source” bit of misdirection. I guess Citrix doesn’t know that All Source is “Open Source” to Someone.
Jeremy Allison joins GNOME Advisory Board
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 30, 2010
Good news indeed! Jeremy Allison is representing Google on the GNOME Advisory Board. GNOME needs more “fear monger, hating, conspiracy theorists” to offset the excessively polite and well-reasoned rational positions consistently taken by Team Apologista.
Rhythmbox 0.12.8
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on March 30, 2010
Huzzah! New version of Rhythmbox is released with lots of bug fixes and other goodies! Rhythmbox holds a special place in my heart: not only is it the best Linux audio player I’ve ever used (and I’ve tried every one I’ve ever ran across), but it’s one of those driving forces that keep me motivated. [...]
Document Freedom Day 2010
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Standardization on March 30, 2010
March 31st 2010 is Document Freedom Day, a “global day for document liberation”. I strongly support the idea of document freedom because this it is the concept that helped bring me into the Free Software fold. The Past Two things about documents and computing never made a lot of sense to me: I had to [...]
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