Archive for 'Open Sauce - Linux Blog'
Telling it like it is, the Allison way
Published on January 22nd, 2010.
He's the man with a conscience in the computer industry. Not too many of them around these days, an era when people attach the name open source to...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
Lundy plays good cop to Conroy’s bad cop
Published on January 22nd, 2010.
Much has been made, both in December and recently, of a blog post by Labor Senate member Kate Lundy, a backbencher, in which she appears to differ with the party's...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
Brisbane to host LCA 2011
Published on January 21st, 2010.
Nine years after it first played host, Brisbane has been awarded the rights to host the Australian national Linux conference again.Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: Keeping patent trolls at bay
Published on January 21st, 2010.
Free software is likely to come under increasing attack from patent holders in the years ahead and therefore developers themselves need to understand the basics of patents, free software luminary...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: Kiwis to give FOSS desktop a go
Published on January 21st, 2010.
New Zealand will begin a test of a homegrown free and open source desktop solution next month, with the Horizons Regional Council to be one of the guinea pigs, according...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: Tridge and the art of education
Published on January 20th, 2010.
It takes a lot of courage to set out on an unexplored course, especially when it comes to academia. There is nothing to compare with the withering scorn that one...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: How FOSS spreads to the home
Published on January 20th, 2010.
Shane Geddes is one of the first batch of students to enrol in New Zealand's first high school that uses only free and open source software - the Albany Senior...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: Smooth sailing at halfway point
Published on January 19th, 2010.
Midway through the week that comprises the 11th Australian national Linux conference, the two co-organisers, Andrew and Susanne Ruthven, say they are extremely pleased with the way things are working...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
ext4: prime time in three years, says Ts’o
Published on January 18th, 2010.
It will take about two or three years for the ext4 filesystem, that has been adopted as the default by some community GNU/Linux distributions, to be routinely deployed on production...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
Auckland: where a FOSS school is a reality
Published on January 18th, 2010.
Mark Osborne is not a technical person. That's the first point he made when he stood up to deliver his presentation on The Open Source Secondary School at the 11th...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
Windows Media streams at LCA: Pfeiffer to the rescue
Published on January 18th, 2010.
Live streaming of sessions from the 11th Australian national Linux conference was organised today for the first time in the event's history, but it almost turned out to be an...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: Boost for open govt mini-conf
Published on January 10th, 2010.
The Australian national Linux conference has received a boost, with three current and former government officials from New Zealand, the UK and Australia to speak at one of the mini-conferences...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: business meets FOSS
Published on January 7th, 2010.
In some respects, it is a little surprising that, given the intense business interest in free and open source software, Australia's national Linux conference only took up the topic as...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
GNOME needs to get its act together
Published on December 31st, 2009.
As the year ends, it is fair to say there have been many free and open source software organisations that have made rapid strides, not merely in 2009 but right...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
Monty launches last-ditch bid to block Oracle deal
Published on December 28th, 2009.
MySQL co-creator Michael Monty Widenius has launched a web campaign to try and prevent Oracle from gaining ownership of the open source database which is part of the...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
LCA 2010: Getting distros to play together, nicely
Published on December 23rd, 2009.
For the second time in its 11-year history, Australia's national Linux conference (LCA) has a distro summit on its agenda. The last distro summit was held in 2008, when former...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
Moonlight 2.0 open to all - with a catch
Published on December 17th, 2009.
Novell has announced the release of Moonlight 2.0, an updated version of its attempt to clone Microsoft's Silverlight, and extended its availability to other distributions - with a rider attached.Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
GNOME board member denies Icaza post caused furore
Published on December 17th, 2009.
A member of the GNOME Foundation board has denied that a post by GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza led to a discussion on the Foundation mailing list which resulted in...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu chief
Published on December 17th, 2009.
The head of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, has announced that he will be stepping down from the role of chief executive and handing over to Jane Silber, the company's chief operating...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.
All your internets are belong to Conroy
Published on December 16th, 2009.
In October 1995, as the United Arab Emirates began to offer people internet connections, the lone service provider, Etisalat, organised a number of information sessions for the public, to market...Filled under Open Sauce - Linux Blog, latest news. No Comments.