Linux Action Show Season 8 Episode 8.
In this podcast, the show’s hosts, Brian and Chris, take a look at Fedora 9 and give some insightful comments about the ups and downs of the Fedora Sulphur release. Quite surprisingly, they’ve had a lot of negative stuff to say.
This is just priceless, I stumbled upon an interesting science website:
We asked a large range of famous celebrities - and people who we think should be celebrities - what they thought the first words on Mars would be. Here’s a selection of the best we received. Where applicable, the category they wrote their words for has been shown.
And guess who was interviewed? Yes, good ol’ RMS:
Richard Stallman
Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation
“Here we can share music!”
Well, I finally went round fixing some stuff:
- Upgraded Wordpress to v2.5.1
- New social media plugin! You can now post articles you like to Stumbleupon, Digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us. If you need any other SB sites included, please tell me and I’ll add them
- Changed the CSS style-sheet and the color around a bit
- Rearranged the sidebar
- Reduced footer size
- New favicon
- Other icons were changed, too
That’s about it! If you thinks something’s wrong/missing/too much please inform me in the comments.
There has been a lot of debate concerning OLPC’s (or Negroponte’s) decision to load XO laptops with XP. I say it is a downright idiotic decision, and not because of RMS’ article about freedom (don’t get me wrong here, Stallman is my hero, but he develops his article in a completely wrong way in the XO case).
I for one believe this was all caused by a huge wad of cash sent Negroponte’s way. Negroponte just wants to get it done and go on vacation.
Why? Let’s take a look at some facts:
5) Windows XP will no longer be supported and useful when those kids are old/educated enough to get hired.
4) Windows XP is probably going to run the same interface as the Linux version, namely Sugar. That means the only difference will be the base system, and people aren’t really interested in that, especially some poor kid from Peru. Linux consumes far less system and storage resources.
3) Windows XP is not open source, so you’ll need some good localization support for even the most obscure languages. Mocovi, anyone?
2) OLPC will have to pay for every copy of Windows… and even if it’s $3 per laptop, multiply that by 50,000 and see how many kids stay without a laptop. Are we donating laptops to the governments or the children of third world countries?
1) After a while, this thing will get slower and slower. Try running an antivirus, a firewall, an anti-spyware suite, and a full-blown Windows environment. Then launch Photoshop and see what it looks like when a laptop throws up.
That’s my $0.02. It may be a bit extreme, but I wanted to express my outrage about this decision. It just ain’t right.
I’m sorry, but if you don’t at least visit the Fedora homepage after seeing this screenshot, there’s something wrong with your eyes.
Just kidding. Yep, there’s a new Fedora release in town. It’s extremely cool, has some neat new technologies implemented (you can supposedly install it on a USB stick without rendering it unusable for data storage), and it defaulted to KDE 4!
Here are some awesome reviews of Fedora 9 by people who write better than me:
