Category: Syndicated

The wiki is coming along. There is now the beginnings of an RSVP list. If you'd like to attend, please add your name to the RSVP.

I'm happy to say that things are moving forward on the ubucon planned for February 16 at Google's offices in Manhattan. It will be a mixture of un-conference, installfest and user group meeting for Ubuntu users, developers and the simply curious. Visi...

Matt Asay had a mild critique of Mark Shuttleworth to which I responded in the comments. Read Matt's critique first, and then I'll repost below what I wrote there: I think his [Mark's] main point is that it's difficult to get a polished, end-user frie...

More details coming very, very soon. Rest assured, this will happen, and things are coming together rather quickly.

You know you want to do it... Here's a page where you can start."Edgy Edge" will be the next version of Ubuntu, and it's scheduled to ship this month. Kudos to the Ubuntu folks for sticking with the original release schedule - as you may recall, 6.06 w...

Now I know why someone asked if I knew this was a Blog of Note. Hey, it was only on the right-hand side of blogger.com under the big heading "Blogs of Note". Nope, don't know how I could have known that 😦 Thanks to whoever put it there, and please fo...

The Ohio Linuxfest: Coming to an Ohio near you!

As a follow-up to my thoughts on Ubuntu, I posted my thoughts on Red Hat. Basically, Red Hat is the standard-bearer for commercial open source, and they appear to be stumbling in that role, suffering from an acute case of myopia and fighting battles t...

Forbes magazine online has been publishing a series of articles on open source. Most of them have been decent, but Daniel Lyons continues, annoyingly, to persistently get certain things wrong. Today's article is on Shuttleworth and our favorite Linux d...