Tag Archives: Linux

Prompted in part probably by this report on the state of GnuCash, Linux.ie will now accept banners from Open Source projects looking for a bit of attention. There’s more details on the page above, but be aware that not all banners will be accepted, and less mature projects won’t get a look in at all.
This is a service to boost awareness among new users to Linux. That means the applications have to work well and look good!
Update! I joined the #gnucash channel to lurk for a while. The first thing I saw made me grin.

<conrad> Oh man. I go away for a day, and hundreds of people join the channel…..

Thanks Waider for this..
#
# Dear Mr. or Mrs. Journalist,
#
# The changelog below is a list of modifications that have been made
# to the kernel at one time. By no means does this text reflect any
# official position of Red Hat, Inc. nor does any text reflect what
# is in the actual current kernel, due to the fact that we actually log
# tests and one-off builds as well.
#
# Sincerely yours,
# Arjan van de Ven
# Red Hat Linux kernel maintainer.
#


Owen Kelly just called from a POS show here in Cork. They suffered a power cut for a few minutes.
As the lights and machines came on again Owen spotted some weighing scales booting up. At closer inspection he noticed Linux boot messages and mentions of Red Hat scrolling up the small screen!
When booted, the scales have a touch screen interface and also display movies of food being cooked. I presume the interface allows the user to select the food being weighed, which dictates the movie shown.
Internet on your toaster anyone? Nah, that’s old news! Movies on your weighing scales is in now!

I read this on the GIMP-Users mailing list but as their archive is broken now, here’s the scoop via gnomedesktop.org (and thanks to Feedster for finding it for me!)
The next major release will be 2.0, not 1.4. Unfortunately this means that some features slated for a 2.0 release won’t make it until later. All you print shops will have to wait a bit longer for CMYK support.

Send your cheques to …

SCO is giving the “tainted” Linux users out there a way to clean up their filthy ways via a licensing program that will begin in the coming weeks.

After dolling out threats of legal action, SCO has called on enterprise Linux users to come forward and pay for code the company claims to own. The legal zealots at SCO reckon Linux has grown up too fast by nicking technology such as support for large SMP systems from its copyrighted Unix code. SCO plans to start calling Linux customers this week, asking them to pay up or face the consequences.

If you have an interest in the Irish language, beidh suim agat san clar seo. An Gramadóir will check your grammar and style. Kevin says, [it’s] the first grammar and style checker for the Irish language. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first such package for any minority language.

I finally did it. I went back to Window Maker after the longest stint away from it. The Bluecurve theme of Red Hat 9 under Gnome and KDE kept me busy for several months, but it’s now time to throw in the hat and go back to a simpler world.
One reason I’m ditching Gnome/KDE is a simple one. My new camera produces 2.2MB jpeg files. Opening those in the GIMP requires me to shut down Kmail, and even then the machine swaps. Of course I should really close some of the dozen tabs in Moz FB but I may need them later.. 🙂
Via the DockApp Wareouse comes wmFuzzy. It’s a neat fuzzy clock that’ll display “twenty to ten” instead of 9:40!
Lots more dockapps available at the warehouse linked above too.

This opinion piece is so misleading I don’t know where to start! Luckily I don’t have to because a brief thread on LUNI has reasonable answers to this analyst’s questions and asertions.

It also seems that the MySQL client libraries are now released under the GPL. This causes a lot of problems for producers of non-GPL software and is an artifact of the license. This may even impact on PHP bundled support for MySQL as PHP 4 isn’t available under the GPL.