links for 2008-03-22

GNOME 2.22 and other awesome

Somewhat belated celebration of our latest release, but hey, I just wanted to see the release love continue to roll by on all the Planets. :-) Check out Dave’s release linkage for some bricks and whole bunch of bouquets.

Definitely great to see Cheese (of which I am quite the fan) so prominently featured in the release notes and on the front page. Rock on, Daniel!

Amazingly, something even more exciting in the GNOME galaxy has just concluded… the (by all reports) über-successful GTK+ Hackfest.

Congratulations to all involved… The future looks bright — burning magnesium bright!

GNOME 2.22

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links for 2008-03-08

QoTD: Bill Clinton

Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.” — Bill Clinton, supporting John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign

Bill Clinton on Fear vs. Hope at YouTube

QoTD: Justice Kirby

We are moving to a point in the world where more and more law will be expressed in its effective way, not in terms of statutes solidly enacted by the parliament … but in the technology itself: code.” — Australian High Court Judge, Justice Kirby, Tech makes lawmakers impotent, says Judge

Great to hear this understood and so clearly stated by a highly influential Australian judge.

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links for 2008-01-24

  • “Starting today, customers in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchase Ubuntu 7.10 with built-in DVD playback on the XPS 1330n” — Good move by Dell, shipping Ubuntu on highly desirable hardware… Not yet in Australia though. :-(

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