Archive for category Free Software
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
The Disappearing Article Mystery Solved?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell on March 26, 2010
Now that there is some explanation out there, we can examine two interesting aspects to the Disappearing Article Mystery. Be warned: this will be long and ranty. Aspect the First: The Disappearance The “disappearance” is explained by Mr. Worthington (the article author) on Twitter as so: on my recent .net evolution stories – nothing was pulled. they [...]
The Product of My Research
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on March 24, 2010
Just something I ran across trying to research the Disappearing Article Mystery: http://twitter.com/tuhl/status/10690157612 Short meeting with Jeremy Allison was cool – #osbc #samba #google http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/10691469526 @tuhl Shame that he has turned into a fear monger, hating, conspiracy theorist Stay classy, San Diego.
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