Free Software: Episode Released! | Questions please…
Jon Roberts invited Jeremy Allison, Richard Stallman and I to answer questions from his readers about Software Freedom. We covered some of the issues du jour, but also a lot of the bedrock philosophy. Great job pulling it together, Jon! Thank you.
(tags: jeremyallison richardstallman rms jeffwaugh jdub questionsplease podcast)
Will […]
48 days to go.
We’ve been leaping out of our skins to reveal our first keynote speaker, and now we can! He’s a scholar and a gentleman, and leads a double life as a kernel hacker extraordinaire. Without this man, we may have missed an entire generation of kernel hackers, and certainly wouldn’t have had a penguin […]
Primed for desktop Linux
“For me, the fact the Linux idea was explicitly stated by the CIO and did not arrive via a pre-existing vendor relationship or sales pitch is a poignant one.” — Steven Deare about the Kennards deployment, and Ordinate’s new business
(tags: ordinatesystems desktop linux fedora kennards deployment)
Get Iceweasel!
Pure awesome.
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Open source Java presents world of opportunities
“Given that Sun [is] also open-sourcing Java ME (Micro Edition), that allows Gnome developers to create Java applications that can work across the desktop and embedded devices,” Waugh said.
(tags: press java sun gnome gmae linux desktop)
Waugh Partners to open up IT industry
“Australia’s open source industry received a boost this […]
Fox News takes on The Daily Show
“Fox News, a regular butt of jokes for Jon Stewart’s liberal-leaning The Daily Show, is developing a conservative news satire programme with the co-creator of 24.” — But conservatives just aren’t funny, and… Fox *News*?!
(tags: foxnews dailyshow jonstewart politics)
Notes on Firefox Summit 2006
“The various distros can do a better job at [Linux builds] than we can, and they also happen to have most of the users, outnumbering Mozilla builds by more than 10-to-1.” — Hopefully, this indicates more co-operation with distributions on the part of Moz
(tags: firefox mozilla ubuntu debian fedora linux)
Get the hell out of there, Glynn. We just don’t know what could happen.
Live action =) Some eye candy for Maemo users =)
This is so awesome, it even rhymes… It’s like Front Row on your Maemo! What looks like a delicious user experience, via the lickable delivery vector of the 770’s beautiful screen. It will be released in the next couple of weeks.
(tags: nokia 770 gmae multimedia)
Sendmail Expands […]
Please send us to linux.conf.au is such an audacious and well-prepared stunt (much like their previous work, pictured above), that we’d be heartless not to support it. At least for the first attempt at a stunt like this.
Four students, who have to suffer the injustice of living, learning and working in the Open […]
B1 Pictures - OLPCWiki
Elite zero-day unboxing pics of the alarmingly desireable OLPC XO B1. Lap it up.
(tags: olpc linux gnome gmae)
An interview with Linux Australia’s cover girl
“Australians should get over their cultural stereotype of women in IT and schools play a big part in this, claims [Linux Australia’s cover girl] Pia Waugh” — Pfft. Cover girl? Centrefold!
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