In an effort to get (back?) into writing I thought I’d mention that I went to FOSDEM 2009 with a bunch of the OTC Eu folk. It was my first FOSDEM and I must say I was pretty impressed with the whole event. There where a broad range of interesting talks, so much so that […]
I’ve been a pretty lax blogger of late, well always, but nowadays I have a lot more interesting stuff to blog about and seemingly even less time to do it. The reason I’m breaking with tradition is that I spent last week at the Linux Plumbers Conference and Kristen Carlson Accardi, the conference organiser, requested […]
I switched over from Fedora 9 Beta to Ubuntu Hardy beta last week. Mainly because everything I’ve ever wanted is packaged and easy to find for Ubuntu and the third party package repositories seem to play a lot nicer together. What about all the things I was looking forward to in Fedora 9? Turns out […]
I’ve previously mentioned that I’m now running a Linux laptop as my primary (non-work) machine. I still miss aspects of using an iBook, but fortunately it looks like Fedora 9 is set to abolish the remaining issues - further cementing my use of Linux on a laptop. First of all I should mention the things […]
In the short time I’ve been using a Fedora machine as my main (non-work) workstation I have been really impressed by the quality of the software. Linux desktop software has really matured over the years, quite rapidly in some cases as it was only a few months ago that I was using Linux at University. […]
