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FIREFOX 3 is for anytime soon check your time for download !

Firefox is the best. Firefox 3 is better. Period.

Start downloading  10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Tuesday, June 17th. Vietnam midnight 17th to 18th of june.
other time :

Posted 17 June 2008 † david § ‡ Comments (0)

The flight of the - free - Heron

Everybody knows I’m Ubuntu user,  and like most Ubuntu users I got excited by the release of the latest installment of the most popular Linux distribution. Ubuntu is not the goal it’s only the accidental best medium for Software Freedom to take on the proprietary world, I’m saying it but Mark Shuttleworth the father of […]

Posted 29 April 2008 † david § freedom § ubuntu ‡ Comments (0)

Lost opportunities, cool stuff. A tale of busy week

Last week was the FOSS-bridge in Hanoi, For those who don’t know yet, it is a match making between european companies and Vietnamese companies in the field of Free and Open Source Software. Nice initiative, especially that they want generate interest for more sharing and more equality between european and vietnamese hackers. That’s the good […]

Posted 17 November 2007 † david § Geek Ranting ‡ Comments (0)

“Open Source is here to stay”, Gartner

Yes you have read it. Gartner, he very much conservative IT corporate advisors have said it. Two decade ago Gartner did help Microsoft to become what they are (PDF). Now they are putting their weight behind Software freedom and open source. According to them it is no political or philosophical endorsement, it is just plain […]

Posted 20 July 2007 † david § ‡ Comments (0)

GPLv3 is out

That will make some interesting reading
http://gplv3.fsf.org/

Posted 02 July 2007 † david § ‡ Comments (0)

Video conference, Mark Shuttleworth, HCMC and Hanoi july 6

Yup it is not exactly official, so we will keep you updated as we know more, but so far it there will be a video conference where the subject will be “Open Standards, ODF/OOXML and Ubuntu for Vietnam and the World” will be at 15h00PM and between 2-3 places (2 in Hanoi 1 in […]

Posted 27 June 2007 † david § ‡ Comments (0)

The be very afraid tour

Worth watching :

Posted 22 May 2007 † david § ‡ Comments (0)

Linux Is Going To The Indianapolis 500!

The Linux community is going to put a Linux sponsored car in this year’s Indianapolis 500… and you can help! Today marks the launch of Tux500.com, a community-powered marketing effort!

I remember during the Asiasource II event, I was suggesting to place “Free Open Source Software” in movies, so instead of seeing a MAC or […]

Posted 11 April 2007 † david § asiasource ‡ Comments (0)

Grassroot Open Source action exist in Viet Nam

And see it in pictures. In Ho Chi Minh City, the VNOSS (Vietnam Open Source Software) squad decided to crash the Microsoft Vista Party, and did a free linux cds give-away. Normally Vietnamese are rather frisky at the idea to demonstrate anything against something, I’m very proud of this action, this time they really showed […]

Posted 27 March 2007 † david § ‡ Comments (0)

Will hardware manufacturers open the floodgates to free software adoption?

The Free Software Foundation has released a paper detailing the five actions major hardware manufacturers can take to foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the free software community: support free software drivers, end the “Microsoft Tax”, remove proprietary BIOS locks, support a free BIOS, and reject Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).
And it is not completely theoretical, […]

Posted 06 March 2007 † david § Geek Ranting ‡ Comments (0)