Hey, hey, hey! The Linux Journal Reader’s Choice Awards first-round voting period has begun. LJ is one of the coolest print publications for FOSS lovers. Let them GNOW you love GNOME! Note that you can still do write-in votes in this round!
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I collected my KLM boarding pass at Heathrow, and was told that I could wait for my flight in the HOLODECK lounge. There were DIY free snacks, drinks and net terminals so I figured I could chill out for a bit, have a drink, and read something frivolous like the Financial Times. So mid-way through […]
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Jon’s deadpan style regularly makes me chuckle:
“Let it not be said that free software projects can’t keep secrets: it would seem that quite a few people in the GNOME community knew that Nokia was working on a Linux-powered, GNOME-based gadget, but they sure didn’t let [The 770] the rest of us in on the story. […] […]
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and Maemo!
Congratulations to the Nokia folks and all the tortured GNOME dudes who had to keep quiet about this while they were working on it.
I have a funny story about Nokia. At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mataró, I met Jesus Climent, a rip-snortingly funny Debian dude who works for Nokia. We took to […]
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It’s funny, we’ve had exactly the same problem in English. We needed a word to describe “Ubuntu people”, so Mako reckons Ubuntites is the best one, whereas, I’m partial to Ubuntians. Foolishly, we didn’t think about common idioms in other languages… and Ubunteros wins HANDS DOWN.
Update:
Jeremy Nickurak tells me that the Esperanto version […]
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Mike, a potential DIA contributor, has an epiphany: “It wasn’t until today that I finally realized the advantages of the distributed repository approach. […] I would very much like to be able to use versionning control to track my changes, but I do not have write access to the Dia CVS repository. With an Arch-based […]
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Dave, GNOME vs. Microsoft “isn’t a story (yet)”? No way man, it’s totally old news.
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Kurt, this is a very slippery slope, and definitely not a path that the core developers of either project are keen to follow. After a period of deep divide, we’ve worked together to encourage a state of friendly and collaborative competition between our two incredible desktop projects. This is an important strength, one which I […]
Dave Neary asked the release team if they had a position on the language stuff, because he was interested to see if that could help move the Foundation Board discussion forward. Here’s his question, and my answer (after attempting to let the release team dodge it).
We’re talking over on the board list about the language thing, […]
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