Archive for February, 2006

GNOME my web? (Epiphany, the first attempt - 1.9.7)

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

ENJOYABLE SIDES
I must say that Epiphany impresses me. Even though I did have to bring out the gconf-editor to be able to get the tab bar to always stay open, it does reek of user-friendlyness (for the most part, see the annoyances section below). Its sleek GNOME HIG-compliant interface is great to work with, and [...]

When free isn’t good enough: pushing free software authors away

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Quite recently there has been a policy change in the free software host Savannah. Now it is no longer good enough to license documentation under the GNU General public license anymore. You either license it under the GNU free documentation license or a compatible license or take your code somewhere else! They do allow dual-licensing, [...]

Todays word of wisdom

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

“Unix doesn’t prevent you from doing something dumb, because this might
prevent you from doing something smart.”
- Unknown source