Nokia to buy Trolltech
Wow, Nokia is about to acquire Trolltech. Some people might be worried about the future of QT, but in an open letter to the open source community, they state: “… We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We...
Category: Free Software
Becta advises against Windows Vista in Britain schools
Becta (the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency), which governs technology use in schools, has advised schools not to upgrade to Windows Vista or Microsoft Office 2007. The reasons for this suggestion revolves around new licensing restrictions and higher costs,...
Free Software Foundation Fundraiser
The Free Software Foundation‘s main source of income is donations, and it’s main source of donations is its membership program. The FSF is currently running a campaign to recruit at least 500 new members. The membership fees start with US$10...
10 More Games from the Ubuntu Universe
Previously, I blogged about 10 games that’s available in the Ubuntu Universe that I found interesting. Since then, the Ubuntu MOTU Games team has merged with the Debian games team, and the amount of packaged games have increased. Here are...
SA Government to standardise on ODF
From Tectonic, the South African government accepts ODF as the document standard. The adoption of ODF (Open Document Format) in our government is indeed great news, and hopefully it will have an effect on other developing countries when decisions like...
Ubuntu turns 3 – Local get-togethers
Today’s release of Ubuntu 7.10, the very popular Debian-based distribution, marks 3 years since Ubuntu made it’s first release in October 2004… and the Ubuntu world is getting ready to celebrate… We have two Ubuntu 7.10 parties scheduled in...
Microsoft now has 2 Open Source licenses
Via LWN, Microsoft now has 2 approved Open Source licenses. They don’t seem like very Microsoft-like licensed, which tends to be very long winded (then again, the same can be said for some Open Source licenses). The two licenses are:...
Russian Schools Switch to Linux and new Edubuntu wallpaper
Found some real good news via Slashdot this morning, Russia will have a locally built Linux distribution, called “Russian OS”, installed in every school in the country by 2009. It doesn’t seem that they’ve chosen on which distribution this will...
75% of my Filesystem represents… PACMAN!
And that reminds me… some people requested that I upload the slides of the GNOME CLUG talk I presented a few weeks ago. Get them here.
CTWUG Committee Formed
Yesterday, the Cape Town Wireless Users Group (CT-WUG) met and elected our first committee. I’ve only been on the WUG a few months, users connect to high-sites put up on the hills and high buildings, and the high-sites are connected...
FSF starts new campaign: Play OGG!
In the past, the Free Software Foundation used its funding to fund free software development. More recently, the FSF changed their strategy to fund only critical development, and to use their available funds more for free software campaigns. FSF has...
Ubuntu Developer Summit in Sevilla, Spain
Ubucon Saturday I went to Ubucon here in Sevilla, and saw Fabian talk about Canonical support, and Jono giving a community talk, “Herding Cats”. Both were quite good, I got them on video, and will upload them as soon as...
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Released
How often can you say “Today they released a new version of Debian GNU/linux” (and tell the truth)? Well, not that often, and certainly not as often as in the Ubuntu world. Today is one of those days, the Debian...
Ubuntu Certified!
Tonight I got some post from my old place (which mostly contained some old bank statements), but inbetween, there was a really cool surprise, my Ubuntu Certified Professional certificate and card! Whohoo!
Geekdinner
Last night I went to the well attended Geekdinner, organised by Johann “Joe” Botha. I didn’t expect much from the geekdinner, the general perception was that there was going to be mostly ‘glamblogger/glamgeeks’ (we should get a proper name for...
