Sam VargheseSam Varghese is a journalist who has flirted with tech on and off. After his first experiments with Linux began in 1998, he began using the Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use. Since then he has written widely about the use of both free and open source software. His personal opinions will form the core of this blog.

His personal blog is at http://wildcard.gnubies.com

 

LibreOffice making steady progress

A little more than a year after The Document Foundation was set up to look after LibreOffice, the fork of the former OpenOffice.org project, it seems that Oracle did the users of the latter office suite a great favour by neglecting it.
 

Open tablet Spark to hit shelves in May

The Spark, an open tablet which will be available for purchase by May this year, will run the Mer operating system, the community continuation of the Linux-based MeeGo project which is hosted by the Linux Foundation.
 

Mandriva lives to fight another fortnight

The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog.
 

SFC director Kuhn reacts to BusyBox flame war

The executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Bradley Kuhn, says that enforcing the GNU General Public Licence is a means of defending software freedom.
 

BusyBox replacement project fuels animated verbal spat

It's been some time since there was a good old-fashioned verbal spat in the free and open source software community.
 

First open tablet released by KDE developer

The first open tablet, running free and open source software, has been announced by senior KDE developer Aaron Seigo.
 

Windows 7 migration process has a few holes

A company named Zinstall is attempting to plug a product by the same name which is used for PC migrations in businesses. But in the accompanying document, which provides details of the process, there are surprising lacunae.
 

Linux Australia: preaching to the converted isn't enough

Last year, in its annual budget, Linux Australia allocated a sum of $5000 for media training. The entire amount was unspent.
 

Canberra to host 2013 Linux conference

Rather fittingly, given that it will celebrate its 100th birthday next year, the Australian capital, Canberra, will host the 14th national Linux conference in January 2013.
 

Life-giving software should be open: GNOME Foundation chief

Software that controls vital human functions should always be open source, else it could prove to be a danger to one's existence, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation says.
 

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