Category Archives: Free Software/Open Source

People are always talking about ‘the year of GNU/Linux on the desktop’. And they’re always wondering which year that will be. In the future. I think that future is here already. I purchased a scanner, and it arrived today – … Continue reading →

The LinuxBIOS symposium 2006 in Hamburg was pretty amazing. Very, very interesting – and it was great to finally meet some of the folks from the mailing list. There are photos and slides from the talks at the LinuxBIOS wiki. … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to play with some of these gumstix for a long time. Recently they released the Netstix 200xm-cf that puts ethernet, a CF socket, a 200MHz Xscale CPU, 64MB of RAM and 16MB of flash in a tiny … Continue reading →

I wrote a while back about Sun’s decision to GPL the design for its Niagara T1 chip. As Larry Lessig reports, there is now a company in Europe that is shipping a modified design targeted at embedded systems. Check out … Continue reading →

Mark Shuttleworth has an insightful post about the relation between Debian and Ubuntu on his blog. It’s quite refreshing to see such a positive take on the sometimes difficult relationship between my two favourite distributions. Worth reading.

So. HP is finally going to provide some more Debian support. Very good. And basically just what I want; I don’t need paid support. I just want Debian packages for their hardware monitoring tools. I want the necessary drivers to … Continue reading →

The second draft of the GPLv3 has been released, as well as a first draft for the LGPLv3. Have a look at the Guide to the new drafts of the GPL and LGPL.

A friend came over with her 20″ Imac that did not boot anymore – hard drive problems. Macs can be started up in Target Mode, where you essentially turn the computer into an external Firewire hard drive. I hooked the … Continue reading →