Posts Tagged GNOME
Netrunner Blacklight Released!
Huzzah! So, the official (and huge) ISO for the second release of Netrunner is up, out and available right now! (torrent) Here’s the distrowatch announcement. Moving to KDE The biggest change in this version is moving to KDE for the desktop. Something important to understand about that: when I say “KDE for the desktop”, that doesn’t [...]
On Having a successful GNOME event
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on June 25, 2010
A successful GNOME event involves everyone having fun. If someone in your audience is uncomfortable with something you’ve said, you’re not doing your job. Apologize to them as soon as possible, and try to avoid the topic that triggered this for the rest of your presentation. Is it just me or is this an absurd [...]
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.
GNOME Foundation Charter: I’ve read it. Have you?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 15, 2010
GNOME is part of the GNU project and supports the goals of the GNU project as defined by the Free Software Foundation. Free software licensing has always been a mainstay of GNOME, and we must ensure that this tradition continues. GNOME will include only Free software. From the GNOME Foundation Charter. About Me I’m a [...]
GNOME Foundation Drama III: Part One: Moonlight
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 8, 2010
I don’t know about “free software”. Even after more than a decade it’s still an alien term for me. I know it is “opensource” for as far as I’m concerned. And that’s all I care about. – Philip Van Hoof, GNOME Foundation Member Usually I turn to HBO or Showtime to provide me with my [...]
Checking in on the GNOME Foundation
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 27, 2010
It’s been a little over a month since the initial kerfluffle about GNOME and GNU. In that first run-up we basically had a couple of the usual chuckleheads waging war against a flimsly constructed straw man in hopes of discrediting RMS/FSF/Free Software with a secondary effect of promoting “Open Source” as the preferred term (and [...]
Silverlight Promotion on Planet GNOME
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Novell, Propriatery Technology on January 9, 2010
A bit of a rant here, because guess what greeted me when I began checking my RSS feeds today on my lazy Saturday morning: Remember that whole promoting proprietary software on Planet GNOME kerfluffle? I know this will sound insane, but I think a huge-ass button saying “Install Microsoft® Silverlight™” might possibly fall under the [...]
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