Archive for category Free Software
Firefox in Ubuntu to be powered by Google after all
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 8, 2010
Old News Ubuntu was going to rely on Microsoft as the default search engine for 10.04. Let’s review the rationale: Why? I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and [...]
Review: KeePassX
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Reviews on April 7, 2010
Keeping track of passwords sucks. We may be moving – ever so slowly – towards some sort of acceptable centralized identity authentication scheme, but in the here and now I bet you have to manage a lot of passwords. I know I do, and I hate it. Every site has some slightly different set of rules for [...]
Emacs and the GPL
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 6, 2010
The H has quite the interesting story up, “Emacs & the birth of the GPL“, tracing how Emacs developed, and how that in turn led to the development of the GPL. Seeing the Future I quite enjoyed seeing how RMS tempered prophetic statements with unfortunate real-world experience. Consider this insight from RMS into why it would [...]
Songbird drops Linux support
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 3, 2010
Sad news: Songbird will no longer support Linux. I gave Songbird two tries, and saw improvement and thought it had potential. It never reached a point where it could challenge Rhythmbox, but I was interested in where it was going. I did think if it reached it goals it would be a serious contender. Now [...]
Plymouth Tetris
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 3, 2010
Love this idea on what to do when waiting on fsck at boot. All busy prompts / wait times should be supplemented with games of skill or trivia!
Bruce Byfield: Why I support Document Freedom Day
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 1, 2010
Once again, Mr. Byfield trumps Yours Truly in eloquence: In other words, sometimes you need to stand up for what you know is right, regardless of consequences, simply out of self-respect. Campaigns like Document Freedom Day give the opportunity for such self-reaffirmation, and I would support them for that reason alone, even if more practical [...]
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 [...]
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