Archive for August, 2010
Shuttleworth: Open Textbooks
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on August 27, 2010
Mark Shuttleworth chimes in on the Open Textbook topic. “Open Textbooks” is a powerful idea; in some ways I think it even exceeds Free Software. “Open Source” has shown remarkable efficiency in the market, even to those antagonistic to the principles that make it so. If the idea of “Open” – and the more important, [...]
Demystifying Akonadi
Sebastian Kügler has a very informative essay, covering lots of good stuff about Akonadi. KDE in General I’m very glad to see this sort of thing, for I have long lamented that KDE is not getting out good information on all the advances they are making. I’ve been on KDE 4.5 on my laptop since it [...]
Open Source as viewed from MS
Posted by harrytuttle in Microsoft, Open Source on August 25, 2010
Just read this article to get an idea from MS’s own slideshow how they see OpenSource, and the only way they would love it exist: http://martin.iturbide.com/?page_id=114
OSFA Award Nominations Open
Posted by Jason in Open Source on August 11, 2010
Open Source for America has announced nominations are open for its inaugural Open Source Awards Program. There are 3 categories: Individual Contribution Open Source Project Open Source Government Deployment Rules and guidelines here, but the main point is that nominees should support OFSA’s mission: to effectuate changes in U.S. Federal government policies and practices so that [...]
Linux From Scratch: End of an Experiment
After almost exactly 4 months of exclusively running Linux From Scratch on my laptop, I finally consider the experiment done. Here’s a retrospective look at what it was like for me. Why are you doing this!? I like trying out different distros. I usually keep one distro on my desktop and “play around” on my laptop. [...]
Out of the blue
Posted by harrytuttle in Hate-is-just-a-4-letter-word on August 9, 2010
This interesting snippet here caught me ungarded: LXF: Some people have accused Ubuntu of mimicking Mac OS X – what’s your take on that? DS: I don’t take a position on every silly little thing that people say, but if forced to take a position on the matter, I would say “haters gonna hate.” Read [...]
OMG! Ignorant!
Posted by Jason in Linux, Open Source on August 9, 2010
So, Benjamin Humphrey of OMG! Ubuntu! and Ubuntu Manual team lead has a blog post he considers so brilliant he made sure it went out twice: “Dude, you’re a 35 year old with a neck beard“. Mr. Humphrey’s particular post is so chock-full of ignorance that it deserves a proper dissection. Let’s begin! [Edited to [...]
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