D0ubleB: Home from work. Going to go to a concert tonight. My wife won tickets on the radio. :D — 1:45pm
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
by DoubleB
This is really great stuff. I knew we would see great things from Google’s Android Platform. This phone is said to have a slider keyboard, 3×5 inch touchscreen and an accelerometer. Remember Android is open source and free just like, Ubuntu Linux and Mozilla Firefox.
Monday, May 26th, 2008
by DoubleB
by Lisa Hoover,
Recently, I wrote a review of the note-taking application Tomboy. Though I find Tomboy exceptionally useful, I had a minor issue with the inability to create new notebooks from within a note. Within hours of the review appearing on Linux.com, Boyd Timothy, one of the app’s developers mentioned in the article’s comments that my idea had merit and said he would add the feature to an upcoming build. True to his word, he did. This is a shining example of one of the most valued yet sometimes overlooked features of open source software: it really is for the people, by the people.
To get a better understanding of why I’m so impressed by the responsiveness of open source developers, consider the user’s point of view. Say I decide one day that I want to index my entire collection of CDs. I tell my friend Jack and he decides to do the same thing. Since I’m using Linux, I download CDcollect and get to work. Jack, on the other hand, doesn’t use Linux and coughs up $19.95 for similar commercial software that will run on his computer. The next day we meet for lunch and discuss how great it would be if we could search for music by track length, but unfortunately neither of our applications has that feature. I go home, email the project’s developer with the suggestion, and receive a reply the next day saying he’ll add that to the list of enhancements in the next version, due out in a couple weeks. Jack emails tech support at the company where he purchased his software to request the feature in a future upgrade, but they can only help troubleshoot installation issues.
Read the rest of this article at Linux.com.
Monday, May 5th, 2008
by DoubleB
Great blog post by Chris Pirillo about Open Source Software. I fully agree Chris to the fullest extent.
Check out Chris’ live video stream here.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
by DoubleB
Ubuntu has announced the next edition of its Linux Operating System Ubuntu 8.04 will be ready for a beta release March 20. This release will be named Hardy Heron and will have long term support (LTS) which means it will be supported for 3 years after the initial release. The last LTS release was Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. The final release of Ubuntu 8.04 is scheduled for April 24. The new distro will use the 2.6.24-11.17 Linux kernel, the latest Gnome desktop 2.22 just released, Firefox 3, OpenOffice.org 2.4 and Thunderbird 2.12. So look foward to April for an Ubuntu release with the newest Linux Applications around.
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