Meeting users where they are
With both a two-day conference and a three-day sprint, the Open Help Conference made for a busy week, but I must say that it was a success. We had people there from Gnome, Mozilla, OpenStack, Red Hat, BSD, as well as people who were interested in learning about open-source help. Everyone had something to share. [...]
Thanks, Debian!
Today is Debian’s 17th birthday*, and with that comes Debian Appreciation day! Do you want to give them some thanks for the super work that they do? Just head over to thank.debian.net, and leave them a few words to express your gratitude. You can even search for your favorite package, team, or packaging team, and [...]
How free is the software on my computer, Virtual Richard Stallman?
The VRMS program does a nice job of listing the non-free components on your system. Let’s see what my VRMS report shows: ———— jwc@tereska:~$ vrms Non-free packages installed on tereska linux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels Contrib packages installed on tereska flashplugin-installer [...]
Notes on UbuntuOne
I recently posted a couple of ‘dents onto identi.ca regarding UbuntuOne, but wanted to follow-up with some more complete thoughts. In thinking about UbuntuOne, there are a number of factors involved; it involves the need to build a sustainable business, trademark issues, and the level of one’s own comfort with using non-free software. To me, [...]
