By Stefano Forenza on September 10, 2009
For those who may have not noticed, Lifehacker published a long article with a bunch of things they'd like to see in Ubuntu.
While ironically the first wish is already in the works, the other suggestions are down to ...
Read more » LifeHacker’s Ubuntu wishlist
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By Stefano Forenza on July 31, 2009
Jo Shields has been kind enough to provide an Ubuntu (9.04) remix without Mono apps.
This is done by simply removing (without replacing in anyway) the offending packages.
Chicken Little Remix 9.04, AMD64 edition
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Chicken Little Remix is a modified copy of the Ubuntu “alternate” installer, with all packages relating to Mono removed from the image entirely. No ...
Read more » Ubuntu – Mono = Chicken
Posted in ubuntu
| Tagged I never claimed this is useful, two is better than mono
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By Stefano Forenza on July 27, 2009
I am not sure if I should write about this or not.
Reading the Ubuntu Planet today I noticed a post about sexism written by Melissa Drapper.
Interestingly, she points as a subtle sign of sexism a post by Emgent, where he made her grandma try to crack a wireless network with the last version ...
Read more » Crying wolves
Posted in ubuntu
| Tagged why world sucks and I rock, Yet another rant
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By Stefano Forenza on July 23, 2009
It's interesting how much misleading Lefty's last blog post is.
After receiving (he claims) interesting mails from Boycott Novell's folks he suddenly realized that the community is under attack.
I've come to realize that our community and the people in it, are under attack. We are being disrupted, we are being defamed, we are ...
Read more » Interesting claims
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| Tagged Yet another rant
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By Stefano Forenza on July 19, 2009
Thank you Hicham !
Install Solang on the last Fedora with the following command.
su -c ‘yum –enablerepo=updates-testing install solang’
Enjoy !
Read more » Solang hits Fedora
Posted in Uncategorized
| Tagged Software you want
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By Stefano Forenza on July 19, 2009
The release date of Launchpad has been changed from 21st July to July/August.
On https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing, I recently changed the date
for when the Launchpad.net code is being open-sourced: it now says just
"July / August 2009", instead of "21 July 2009".
To be honest I had ...
Read more » Launchpad opensourcing delayed
Posted in ubuntu
| Tagged free software
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By Stefano Forenza on July 18, 2009
Want to try Android without downloading the SDK or buying a G-1 ?
Look no further, download the Live CD ISO (roughly 90mb), fire up your VirtualBox and tell me what you think about it !
Read more » Android Live CD
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| Tagged Cool !
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By Stefano Forenza on July 17, 2009
For this week end only, you can purchase the complete trilogy by Penumbra for just 5 dollars.
- Overture
- Black Plague
- Requiem
All the games have been ported to Linux (so no Wine or anything) and feature a - reportedly - advanced physic engine. You can read a ...
Read more » 5 dollars to support Linux gaming
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| Tagged Software you want
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By Stefano Forenza on July 16, 2009
A manufacturer of Linux-based networking devices has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in order to settle a patent claim, Microsoft disclosed Wednesday.
Under the agreement, Melco Group will pay the sum to Microsoft in exchange for indemnity coverage for its Buffalo brand Network Attached Storage devices and routers. The patent indemnification ...
Read more » Microsoft trolls another small fish
Posted in ubuntu
| Tagged One more egg for Ballmer, software patents harm kittens
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By Stefano Forenza on July 16, 2009
Linux Outlaws forums bring some great surprises sometime.
We actually discovered the truth about the Mono logo.
It's Jono ! Compare with this.
Read more » The truth about the Mono logo
Posted in ubuntu
| Tagged I wasn't serious - really !, Whawhawha
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