Anything I’m talking about won’t make the news, so it’s not new
If you are not already aware of it, it looks like Microsoft legal legions have launch the final onslaught on Free and Open Software by claiming that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. CNN is reporting it and the whole blogosphere along with all […]
Yes finally, the fun thing about that it will happen again in 6 months
Release note
For those who wants to be remembered, most of the most popular distros are based on Debian. Also it makes the best server base because it is stable. Not to mention the best package management out there. The good news is it didn’t take 3 years to make it there, like the last time […]
Viet Nam entered WTO in November and is starting to understand to full extent of what’s happening. With the the stock exchange bubbling and ready to burst (and follow the Shanghai example) Vietnam has second thoughts about WTO
An I truly think the headaches will worsen as other players will enter Viet Nam […]
If you think to “upgrade” your computer to Microsoft Vista, I recommend you to think twice and read a little bit about the freedoms you will loose by using it :
You will need to activate it absolutely - if not - you will use the special reduced fonctionality mode and only Internet Explorer will works
You’ll […]
Firefox 2.0 is out for a little while now And Internet Explorer is scoring bad in term of security
Firefox 2 Security report from secunia.com
Internet explorer 7 report from secunia.com
I’ve been using the RC for a while now and I’m switched to the 2.0 version , fast efficient and small improvements over the UI […]
I see something good happening for the open office suite. Extensions are coming to OO.o! You know those little snippets of codes people like to use with Firefox/thunderbird, there will be a mechanism to include and manage them in OO.o. It would start by the next release 2.0.4. Why would you need that ? Because […]
That’s a good news for everyone who’s using office suites:
The Open Document foundation finally get ODF (open document format) to be approuved by the International Standard Organization (ISO). Read an article about it, in eweek.com
Read the Original Press Release (PDF)
Why is it good? Because it is the promise that our documents can live longer […]
Not very passionating news but since I have to type Vietnamese, then you need to a small application to help you type all those đ , ể and Ỡ.
The most well know FOSS application for this is definitively Unikey for the ubuntu breezy user like me there’s nothing because the Debian version require gcc3 […]
Richard M. Stallman alias RMS, gave an interview to ZDNET Free Software as a Social Movement Justin Podur interviews Richard Stallman.
He says two remarkable things :
If you are against the globalization of business power, you should be for free software.
Fascism is a system of government that sucks up to business and has […]
