About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux. If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as “The Year of the Linux Desktop,” although such a thing clearly hasn’t happened yet. Now, two [...]
I love Jeff Atwood’s blog, and can even accept that he’s drank of the Microsoft Kool-Aid seemingly for both desktop and server because he’s a great writer and a great programmer.
But I admit to being troubled by his recent post. I might think it to be an April Fool’s Day joke, except the post [...]
After a number of delays, OpenOffice 2.4.0 has been officially released. Get it here. Check the mirrors for your own OS and localization. OpenOffice 2.4.0 has not quite been released yet. Some major new features include OpenGL transitions for Impress, some major charting improvements for Calc, and block selection for Writer.
A recent Linux filesystem benchmark, using modern filesystems, takes a look at some hard numbers. Looks like JFS usually comes in on top.
It’s been a work in development for quite some time now, and I’ve been using it as my main client ever since it entered beta stage, but developer Tim Kosse has finally published a stable 3.0.0 version of the famous open source S/FTP client, FileZilla.
This release is important for a number of reasons: first, [...]
Well, one way to get me to switch to Linux is for Windows to refuse to install on my new machine.
Vista, even though can clearly see all of my hard drives, says “Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its requirements.” The hell? OK, to Google we go. [...]
Wired magazine is running a fascinating article about the plight of Hans Reiser.
Hans Reiser is waiting for me, standing on the other side of an imitation-wood table. The room is small, the concrete walls bare. A guard locks the steel door from the outside. There is no sound. Reiser is wearing the red jumpsuit of [...]
Since there have been a slew of minor (and just a few major) software releases in the past week, I’ve decided to amalgamate them all into a single post. There are a fair number, so I’ve hidden them beneath the fold.
The flame-wars between GPL and BSD proponents flared up again this weekend. Marcus Glocker, an OpenBSD developer, used GPLed driver code for the “bcw” driver (Broadcom wireless) he was developing, and which he had committed to OpenBSD’s public CVS server.
First, it’s important to note that GPL and BSD are not necessarily compatible licenses. [...]
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