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12 March, 201112 March, 2011Fedora

On becoming a Fedora maintainer

Recently, Rahul Sandaram (Fedora dev and creator of the Omega Fedora Remix) offered to sponsor me to become a Fedora maintainer, which I accepted. A day or so later I […]

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1 January, 20116 March, 2011FOSS, Korora

Kororaa Lite (KDE) beta released

Kororaa Lite (KDE) has been released and is now available for download in 32 and 64 bit. Kororaa Lite is a minimal KDE based system which provides a smaller footprint […]

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18 November, 2010FOSS

Con Kolivas posts his thoughts on the new ~200 line kernel patch

Con Kolivas (of SD/BFS fame) has posted his thoughts on the new ~200 line “miracle” kernel patch. It’s an interesting read. In short, he had already implemented something like this […]

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29 January, 2010FOSS

Malaysian government touts 95% FOSS adoption

Malaysia started looking into FOSS for government back in 2004. Now, it appears they have reached 95% adoption across the government. Some 95 percent of Malaysia’s government agencies have adopted […]

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22 January, 201022 January, 2010FOSS

Jeremy Allison talks about the Microsoft Elephant in the room

Jeremy’s talk at LCA 2010 provides a

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22 January, 2010FOSS

New Zealand Government begins trials for move to Linux

Yep, the Kiwis beat us at everything these days and now those sensible chaps in Government begin trials of Linux and free software. In 2003, the NZ government recommended use […]

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22 January, 201022 January, 2010FOSS

A call for the Government to use Free software

It has just been revealed that the Australian Government spends “over half a billion dollars each year” on proprietary software licenses. That’s somewhere over $500,000,000. The Greens are heading a […]

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22 January, 201022 January, 2010FOSS

Proprietary Software and Linux: Good, Bad or Somewhere in Between?

While I’m still up, I might as well tell you about my latest article, “Proprietary Software and Linux: Good, Bad or Somewhere in Between?”. This comes on the heels of […]

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17 December, 2009FOSS, Tech

Microsoft’s new “Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers”..

..is complete rubbish. Essentially, Microsoft has made a pledge (note, not a promise!) NOT TO SUE “open source” developers who create software for “their flagship products” SO LONG AS THEY […]

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24 July, 200924 July, 2009FOSS

SMILE! Making a slideshow on Linux

This is a program I’ve long been looking for in the Linux world, when using OOo presentation doesn’t cut it. It’s called “SMILE” and is a program to create a […]

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