Ubuntu Artwork Team Shows Promising Mockups for Next Release

Sean Tilley — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:47:49 +0100

Ubuntu is, in my opinion, one of the easiest desktop Linux distributions around. It caters directly to the end user, and recently such initiatives as the "100 Papercuts" project show how much Canonical is dedicated to improving usability in future versions.

However, one of the complaints that I see come up in the community the most is the fact that although Ubuntu is now competing directly with Windows 7 and Mac OSX, it has lacked that extra visual spice to make Free SoftwarRead More...

News You Might Have Missed: FreeSCI Merges Into the ScummVM Project

Sean Tilley — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:58:34 +0100

FreeSCI and ScummVM were two ambitious projects to reverse-engineer the top two adventure gaRead More...

Announcing the Open-PC Project

Sean Tilley — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:07:04 +0100

KDE Developer Frank Karlitschek has an ambitious plan of providing a computer system dedicated entirely to Linux, for consumers. Announced at Gran Canaria Developer Summit, Frank's slides and presentation talk about the dire need for GNU/Linux systems to have a fully open-specification machine.

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Free Software, Take Note! An overview of Gnote 0.5.1

Sean Tilley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0100

There's quite a lot of discussion about patents and Mono in the GNU/Linux community as of late. Throughout the numerous arguments, discussions, and mailing lists, there seems to be a growing effort to replace the need for Mono-based applications with "unemcumbered" alternatives.

Initially, I was a little skeptical of what currently is offered as alternative-to-mono applications. In my own experience, the Ubuntu Linux distribution is focusing on bringing in aRead More...

My Best Friend, Now on Linux

Sean Tilley — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Jake knocked on my door at 9 AM on that hot summer day. He ran to my bedroom window, and started shouting.

"Sean! Sean! Time to get up, you said you were doing this!"

He was, of course, entirely right. Jake had mentioned for several months that his computer was bogged down with Vista, and he was fed up with the initial user experience. I was surprised by his initial request for me to give him a try with Linux. I had never advocated it orRead More...

The Next Step Forward: When Will GNU/Linux Have REAL Commercial support?

Sean Tilley — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Over the past four years, I've seen GNU/Linux grow and mature in ways most people just wouldn't have expected. With corporate-backed projects such as Fedora and community distributions such as Ubuntu making such headway, it'd be wrong to say that Linux has miles and miles to go to achieve desktop adoption. From wifi support to interoperability to numerous projects on integrating FOSS drivers with the kernel itself, Free Software on the Desktop has made majRead More...

Things I like about KDE4.

Sean Tilley — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

There's been quite a bit of hubub about the KDE project ever since the 4.0 release last year. Critics have slammed the 4.0 series repeatedly, citing the mentality of "Well, it's not good enough to be a full release.". Between the poor publicity, the crashes in Plasma, and the still-developing early features, KDE was definitely not having a good time. Developer blogs were plastered with hateful comments, and one of my favorite devs Aaron Seigo hadRead More...

Now on Linux.com!

Sean Tilley — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Well, it seems that the Linux Foundation made good on their promise, and have polished up good ol' Linux.com into something much more amazing than it previously was. I may or may not make this my primary blog. No ideas. Nothing.

Anyways, I'm writing this from my lappy, as my desktop is rendering a video in KDEnlive about GNU/HURD.

Oh, the irony. =P

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