In Ireland we have a special relationship with software we see the goodness but politicians dont have a clue how to make sure they get delivery on the sanctioned software systems. There have been a few systems an e-voting system and PPARS(its a payroll system for the medical service) both cost a half a billion [...]
Im going to plug a bunch of projects and stuff I like in this post so I hope you guys like it.
Shot of jaq is bloody awesome. Well us ubuntu people are a little bit biased here because its done by two people who make ubuntu awesome but still it is very cool. Not [...]
At the last Gnome marketing meeting an interesting idea came up. That was to have a ubuntu loco style release party for Gnome 3 this fall. The proposal is here, im sure sponsors are welcome.
I have to stress its a cross community effort so Ubuntu, Fedora, Open Suse, Open Solaris, Mint, Debian….etc everyone who uses [...]
Some people are slightly confused about what Gnome 3 actually is. The biggest myth is
Gnome Shell == Gnome 3
Actually its very far from the truth, in fact there is a lot of work that has nothing to do with user interface.
The second biggest myth is
Gnome will drop all support for Gnome-Panel
Actually it will be fairly [...]
I love quickly and quidgets just for the simple reason they lower the barrier for potential programmers to join in and start easily. But it makes me think that gtk is getting old and its showing its oldness by not being too friendly to write using. This is a major problem because lets say you [...]
Ok at the moment chrome does most of what firefox does at the moment but not much difference. I found a button in chrome that does something awesome.
What that says is “Create application shotcuts”. No its not a funny way to say bookmark it to the desktop. Its the exact same idea as mozilla [...]
I’m an optimist, specifically for ubuntu and the open source/free software world. One thing that puzzles me is OGG Theora and Vorbis. We see Wikimedia (Wikipedia, wikidictonary…etc) using OGG technologies as well as mozilla, google and opera embracing it. It is included by default in nearly all linux distributions (I say nearly all because I [...]
I had an insane idea. I thought how about installing the Ubuntu netbook remix launcher and run it inside Gnome-Shell. It turns out that it looks awesome. I love it
Recently ive heard a lot of strange mailing list banter, mainly from the Gnome marketing mailing list. Its in regard to the FSF (Free Software foundation) terms like “Free Software” and “GNU/Linux”. The FSF believes that everyone should use the term GNU/Linux rather than just Linux and use Free Software not open source.
What im wondering [...]
Microsoft again with its confusing strategy of open source attack and aid, (quietly) made a new thing called the codeplex foundation. According to the website they created it to help bridge the gap between commercial companies and the open source world. Great idea but the board is made up of microsoft employees and what I [...]
