Jon wrote “For Me, It’s Linux, Not GNU/Linux” today. I notice that every so often, this issue crops up again in some circles. Many people feel that saying “GNU/Linux” is confusing and shouldn’t be said at all… and, I would even agree with them—but not in the usual “let’s just call it Linux” way. See, [...]

I just read a post online answering the question of why one “bothers” with Linux. I have to say that I fall into a mixture of his categories as well. The main reason that I use GNU/Linux is that of freedom. I don’t like being told what I am allowed to do with my computer, [...]

I have been working on a few bugs, and it is nearing the time before the release of Ubuntu 8.04 where there will be a complete freeze in the repositories. This will make it harder for bug fixes to get in, of course, and I would like to make sure that the bug I have [...]

Well, this is somewhat frustrating. I submitted a bug some time ago on Evince in Ubuntu wherein I made mention that the default (and up until yesterday, only) information in the title bar of the application is less-than-ideal because it often permits meaningless information to be displayed as the document title. Someone else filed a [...]

Would like to solicit the opinion of a programmer or three on a patch that I wrote against Evolution Data Server. I wrote the patch such that the workaround would be in a central location, so that any code throughout Evolution or other software which may (now or in the future) use Evolution Data Server [...]

In the event that anyone is interested, I have published for print a copy of the Debian Policy. I did so mainly because I needed to order a copy for myself, as opposed to printing the thing, and it did not already appear to be already available in this format. It is in A4 paper [...]

Awesomeness! Pure, unadulterated, awesomeness! Jamie Hyneman—of MythBusters fame—wrote about Windows Vista and how it is a “Tech Headache” compared to something such as Ubuntu: Most features can be set up as options. Why not start with a computer loaded with basic stuff that works 100 percent of the time? Then, give us the option of [...]

I was reading Thomas H.P. Andersen’s blog post on Ubuntu’s update policies a few moments go, and I would tend to agree with him. Indeed, the reason that Neatchee and myself started work on what turned into the UUBP project was the very fact that GAIM 2.0 Beta 6 was broken in 64-bit environments for [...]

I run Ubuntu on a 64-bit AMD processor. Of course, this is a good thing for a number of technical reasons—64-bit software is rather nice to have. But, we’re still very much in a transitory period between the world of 32 bits and 64 bits when it comes to software on the Intel/AMD platforms. And [...]

Alright, so an update. Yep. The past month or so has been filled with all sorts of drama, including a transmission going out on me on the van we now have while I was in Toledo. That wasn’t fun. My dad had open-heart surgery, and is recovering nicely from that—I am fairly certain that he [...]