Monthly Archives: January 2010
Defective by Design is Defective
Once again the Defective by Design have sprung into action to denounce another product from Apple, and once again nobody really cares.
Defective by Design is a marketing campaign sponsored by the Free Software Foundation. While the FSF does plenty of good work, DBD is increasingly out of touch with the majority of users. Contrast the [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, openSUSE Tagged Apple, dbd, defective by design, free software foundation, fsf, gnu, ipad Leave a comment
Apache Unleashes SpamAssassin 3.3.0
What's better than an Apple iTablet, or whatever Cupertino is releasing today? A spam-free inbox, and you can get that (or very close) for free thanks to the Apache Foundation. Yesterday marked the first major SpamAssassin release since 2007 when the Apache Foundation unleashed SpamAssassin 3.3.0.
SpamAssassin is a set of Perl programs that filters mail [...]
KDE 4.4 Kreeps Kloser to Komplete
The KDE team is getting very close to a final release of KDE 4.4. The second release candidate came out yesterday as a testing platform for users and developers to find and squash bugs before the final release date of February 9th.
The 4.4 release brings quite a few changes over 4.3, new applications, enhancements, and [...]
Legal silliness: Blocking banned countries
Some days it seems nothing is simple, even providing open access to open source software. There's a bit of a kerfuffle brewing over SourceForge blocking "banned locations" from downloading software.
The long and short of it seems to be that SourceForge is filtering access to downloads. Requests from Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are [...]
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So long and thanks for all the Geekos!
January 31st will be my last day with Novell. I've given it a great deal of thought, and decided that it's time to move on.
With the openSUSE Conference wrapped up, 11.2 launched, the major projects I've been working on are completed and I feel like this is a good parting point. It wasn't an easy [...]
One more day...