Posted by: Bill Peters
on July 11 2009
I found this blog post at novalug.com which led me to this great rant. It very nicely presents some points that seem to make sense. I don't know which side of the debate it right, I just like having a wide variety of applications for the Linux desktop.
Posted by: Sean Tilley
on June 26 2009
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 a third mono app with the release of Ubuntu Karmic, as well as possibly replacing Gimp on the Live CD with F-Spot. While many of these posts are still speculative, it leaves one to wonder what alternatives there are to offer, in case Microsoft's patents do actually pose a threat to GNU/Linux. Today, let's take a look at Gnote, a C++ alternative to the note-taking application Tomboy.
Gnote was started on April 2009 by Gnome developer Hubert Figuiere, known also for his work on Abiword. The goal of Gnote is to provide a C++ port of Tomboy, which currently relies on C#. Gnote is an experiment to see what would happen if Tomboy were written using C++. Many Free Software enthusiasts that are against Mono have paraded around it as a Mono-Free alternative to Tomboy, but does it hold up? For our testing purposes, I installed Gnote 0.5.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty through a personal PPA. I would love to see it packaged in Ubuntu officially in the near future.
What really struck me at first was the visual similarities. Gnote is, in nearly every way identical to Tomboy. The tray applets look slightly different, but the functional implementation is exactly the same.
Posted by: magus
on June 11 2009
Today's rant was provoked by yet another overheard discussion in Identica about Mono and Moonlight.
People are repeating FUD about Mono and switching from the GNOME desktop, which uses Mono in a few places, to KDE, which doesn't use Mono at all. I don't know who started it, and I don't care. It needs to stop.
Posted by: James Sanders
on May 18 2009
Google docs Linux - MS license Survey...!
Try my survey if you have a moment.
Note, due to alot of comments and feedback about additional items, the Survey has grown, amazingly, hundreds of responses and
dozens of new questions, as suggested by viewers.
Also, Put on fsdaily.com and it's getting some attention !
See what people are saying about this...very interesting.
Thanks!
jds
Posted by: Marco
on May 12 2009
My firs post on Linux.com!
I hope this will become a habitude for me to post some news about the linux-bound experiments I am making. Many of them involve Linux, Mono and some strange ideas I have been thinking of for some time.
Posted by: Omaha
on April 22 2009
Just read the report from ECIS (European Community for Interoperable Systems) which I found through Groklaw. The report adresses the Microsoft history of anticompetitive behaviour throughout IThistory and it's indeed intriguing.
I believe Groklaw does a better job than me in making the points - it just confirms my standing conserning Microsoft.
