Archive for the 'opensource' Category

Ubuntu Studio

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Now it’s official. You don’t have to wait for the gibbon to have a full ubuntu studio. You can download ubuntu studio now. It’s a full OS as easy to install as ubuntu. Ubuntu studio includes open source software for graphics, audio and video. This is their first shot so be kind. Ubuntu has very [...]

Just a dump

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Nothing going on here. Huh?
Steffi and I were in Italy last week, which you probably followed on my flickr account. My perl script to get the latest flickr photos on my blog is still broken. I didn’t take the time to fix it. There is something wrong with the perl imagemagick thumbnails since I use [...]

Songbird

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

So I also checked out Songbird. I didn’t get on their website yesterday, but I found a mirror here.
It’s already a nice proof of concept. Like the flock developer release. These two are early versions of upcoming browsers, more and more like web desktops. Firefox (XUL) is perfect for this, even if there is [...]

Linus the troll

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I can’t believe, what I’ve just read. This post from Linus Torvalds on the gnome mailing list. What’s going on? It’s such a flame-bait.
My Gnome/Ubuntu desktop is very productive and I don’t miss a thing. Ubuntu’s success is based on the approach to keep things simple and usable which is very similar to what the [...]

Open or closed

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Currently I’m reading my friends degree dissertation about ‘Strategic management in IT: Balance between open and closed’. Obviously he is interested in my opinion, cause I always support or let’s say spread the word about anything open and I’m convinced by using open standards, the bazaar model, collaboration/syndication and so forth. So I’m really looking [...]