Tag Archives: desktop

QoTD: Jeff Waugh

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

“I was ready to walk out, because it sounded like the stupidest thing ever.” — Jeff Waugh on Ubuntu’s origins It feels utterly silly to be citing myself in QoTD, but this hilariously out of context quote on the cover … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Day | Tagged desktop, GNOME, Ubuntu | 4 Comments

bzr gcommit

Posted on December 16, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

Brandon just pointed out a new jelmer gem, bzr gcommit along with associated Bazaar GTK+/GNOME integration stuff. Awesome!

Tagged desktop, GNOME | 2 Comments

Im in ur Javur, releasin ur codes

Posted on November 14, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

Java is Free. Crack now. Analysis later.

Tagged desktop, embedded, FLOSS, GNOME | 1 Comment

Hu-la-la-la

Posted on October 12, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

Since Hula was first announced, the #1 question we’ve gotten has been, “will it work with my postfix/Maildir setup?” Clearly, it is clueful and savvy users that are interested in Hula! From what Dave showed us during his demo at … Continue reading →

Tagged desktop, FLOSS, GNOME | 9 Comments

Ohio LinuxFest 2006

Posted on September 30, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

Tomorrow, I’ll be giving the opening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest! Then I’ll be listening to Jorge’s presentation about Linux and Windows living together in harmony. Sweet! The organisers have packed a lot of great stuff and fantastic people into … Continue reading →

Tagged desktop, FLOSS, GNOME, Ubuntu | 1 Comment

Dell D420

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

Yesterday, the well-traveled and now-infamous Quebecistani Craptop — a temporary replacement for my wonderful Dell X300, stolen in Montreal — was laid to rest. At least until EuroOSCON, at which point it will be returned to Canonical. Today, I replaced … Continue reading →

Tagged desktop, FLOSS, GNOME, Ubuntu | 25 Comments

GNOME 2.16

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

GNOME — the software and the community — is the secret sauce behind recent barnstorming Linux desktop products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. The project’s passionate developer community, “Just Works” approach and fierce focus … Continue reading →

Tagged desktop, GNOME | 3 Comments

RftE: Python

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

After finding this gem through Matthias Clasen and Ryan Lortie, I realised that my Ready for the Enterprise series simply had to include negative reviews too: Things that are clearly not Ready for the Enterprise. Apparently, Arjan van de Ven … Continue reading →

Posted in Ready for the Enterprise | Tagged desktop, GNOME | 18 Comments

Awesome Reanimated

Posted on August 18, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

I was poking around for some spare hardware, and came upon an old machine I hadn’t used for a while. Turns out I hadn’t used it for quite a while indeed: /dev/hda1 has gone 1375 days without being checked, check … Continue reading →

Tagged desktop, GNOME, people | 3 Comments

Brand LIVE! Tourettes

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

In his Macworld 1997 keynote, Steve Jobs said that the two most important assets that Apple owned (because it did not own its customers) were the Apple brand and Mac OS. While it was still one of the most recognised … Continue reading →

Tagged desktop | 4 Comments