Daily Archives: September 12th, 2007

Open Office 2007

This is not a post about Open Office or Office Open XML, but about my own “open office” for the past few months, my back porch. It’s an open office in that I can look up from laptop and see through the porch screen to the open woods.
Here are some pictures:
View from my desk

That’s [...]

What’s in a name? GNU, Linux, or GNU/Linux?

[Part of a series, see also Gnubuntu or Ubuntu? and
Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Ubuntu, or Ubuntu Linux?]
I just came across a Slashdot story about an interview with Richard Stallman, Stallman: If you want freedom don’t follow Linus Torvalds. The founder of the Free Software Foundation asks readers whether they will fight for freedom or [...]

links for 2007-09-12

O’Reilly Network — Charming Pythonistas
A charming post on Python (one of my favorite programming languages) and the “underrepresentation of women in IT.”
(tags: open-source education python via:lwn.net)

Linux Done Right: A user’s pleasant surprise — Enterprise Linux Log
Good case study: University of Texas San Antonio migration from NT to Xandros.
(tags: open-source linux via:lxer)

ConsortiumInfo.org – IBM and [...]

Find the IBMer’s

Jonathan Corbet of lwn.net recently posted an annotated photo of the participants in the recent Linux Kernel Summit: Kernel Summit 2007 group photo, annotated.
Jonathan is the first on the left in the front row.
Several of the people shown currently work for IBM’s Linux Technology Center. At least one other used to.
Can you name the [...]

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