As planned, I did my talk about the thriving fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement at yesterday’s FSFE Berlin Fellowship meeting. I started with the basics of the Free Software ideal, moved on to the problematic issues concerning mainstream GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian and then discussed the solutions to these problems. I also [...]
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I will be giving a talk about the fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement in the Free Software Foundation Europe’s Berlin meeting on Thursday, February 11th, next week. The talk will start at 19:30 in the Newthinking Store, Tucholskystraße 48. Hopefully, we will have a chance to continue discussing the topic over a few beers right [...]
I had an interesting day yesterday. I attended my first Fellowship meeting in less than 24 hours after finally joining the Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe. The Berlin group of the Fellowship turned out to be full of interesting people not all of whom are technogeeks. After Hugo Roy’s presentation about the alarming features [...]
It has been a chaotic couple of weeks, but I’m finally settling in Berlin. Although I haven’t found my final home yet, I finally have a reliable Internet access thanks to a little 3G USB modem. (Andreas Gohr’s blog post helped greatly in straining out some details of wvdial configuration for the German T-Mobile.)
I have [...]
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One of the free software related mailing lists I’m subscribed to is called GNU-Linux-libre. It’s a list where developers of fully free GNU/Linux distros and other projects involved in spreading software freedom gather to exchange experiences and opinions. For the last couple of days, there has been a heated discussion going on over how a [...]
Yet another blog pundit’s opinion of Google’s new operating system
I have just read Kongoni developer A.J. Venter’s blog post about Google’s new operating system. I didn’t agree with some of his views and started typing a response as it’s the tradition whenever someone is wrong on the Internet. However, it quickly got too long for [...]
I have been increasingly getting interested in console-only environments, no little thanks to K.Mandla’s inspiring articles.
However, my biggest concern was the screen resolution I could get at framebuffer. According to the prompt I was getting with the vga argument at kernel boot line, I could only get 1024×768 from my Thinkpad X200s which has a [...]
Recently, there has been some activity at the Linux-libre mailing list to create a Linux-libre mascot. Coincidentally, I have been considering adding a custom boot logo to the Freedom Shoppe kernel packages just before the discussion started. So, I decided to wait until there is a nice logo posted instead of using a crude design [...]
I have just uploaded installation packages of Linux-libre 2.6.29.1 that you can find here. They should install and run fine on Debian Lenny, Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid and gNewSense deltah.
The Linux-libre Project purges Linux releases from non-free binary blobs. It also just started guaranteeing users’ freedom by not loading external binary-only firmware that was possible in previous [...]
I own a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s with Intel GMA X4500 series graphics chip that I wanted to use with an additional monitor for some time. Because this chipset is quite new, it didn’t perform well in gNewSense 2.1 which is based on Ubuntu Hardy. So I settled with the then just released Debian Lenny because [...]
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