Sam 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
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.
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.
The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog.
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.
It's been some time since there was a good old-fashioned verbal spat in the free and open source software community.
The first open tablet, running free and open source software, has been announced by senior KDE developer Aaron Seigo.
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.
Last year, in its annual budget, Linux Australia allocated a sum of $5000 for media training. The entire amount was unspent.
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.
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.
