FOSS – Page 2 – Just another Linux geek

22 July, 200922 July, 2009FOSS

Context

Being in the spotlight means people often take things you say our of context. I’m speaking of Richard Stallman, who recently got hammered over his “church of emacs” speech and […]

20 July, 200920 July, 2009FOSS

FSF response to Microsoft’s “Promise”

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14 July, 2009FOSS

Songbird for your distro

Came across a handy little page on the Songbird wiki pointing to contributed builds for various distros. If you want to install Songbird using your distros package manager, maybe this […]

7 July, 2009FOSS

Microsoft C# and CLI patent promise coming?

Peter Galli has written on his blog that he was informed by Scott Guthrie (the Corporate Vice President for the .Net Developer Platform) that Microsoft will include C# and CLI […]

1 June, 20091 June, 2009FOSS

Mono: An infectious disease

I’ve been reading around the Internet for a while now about folks asking why some people don’t like Mono. I have written an article which expresses my opinion on the […]

7 May, 20097 May, 2009FOSS

When Kiwi and Python meet

The New Zealand Python conference, KiwiPyCon, is on the way in November and recently had a competition to design a logo. I’m happy to say that the winner (with a […]

24 April, 200924 April, 2009FOSS

“Linux Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ZFS”

Linux Magazine has a pretty nice little article about Btrfs, a new enterprise level file system developed by Oracle which recently entered the Linux kernel. The article has a comparison […]

22 April, 200922 April, 2009FOSS

FOSS worldwide – Australia 4th overall

Red Hat has announced the results of a survey they sponsored showing the amount of open source activity around the world. An activity map shows the level of open source […]

8 April, 20098 April, 2009FOSS

Sed off

I’m sure many are familiar with the general substitute method of sed for replacing something in a file, i.e. sed -i s/this/that/g ~/myfile but recently I wanted to replace an […]

31 March, 20093 April, 2009FOSS, Tech

The long ARM of Debian

I bought a D-Link DNS-323 NAS box a while ago with the mind to put Debian on it (it already ships with Linux, but I wanted more control). Previously I […]