Archive for June, 2009

Kubuntu Jaunty – A Java Developer’s Setup

Kubuntu is my preferred Linux distro. I’ve pretty much stuck with KDE since my varsity days in 1997 and I’m still a happy KDE camper right now. There’s been ups and downs, not least during the “transition period” when KDE 4.0 first came out, but I’m still firmly in the KDE camp. In contrast, I’ve [...]

Daimler or Ford? (a.k.a. I don’t get no respect)

I choked a bit reading Matt Asay’s Tim O’Reilly: Open-source purists trying to answer the wrong question this morning. And I quote:
Of the formative figures in open source, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Eric Raymond loom large. Arguably, however, few have had as much of a disruptive force as Tim O’Reilly, who has helped to [...]

So Google is the lumbering giant now?

So it seems that Google, the startup that nimbly side-stepped all challenges from entrenched search providers, is a lumbering giant now, unable to update its results as fast as tweets are coming. Rather appropriate that this was published in a newspaper where the term “New York minute” was coined.
One wonders though, what advantages would it [...]

Who should use alpha-status Chromium on Linux?

Note: As with all opensource projects, Chromium is in a continuous state of change. This article was published on the 13th June 2009. If you are reading this more than 3 months after it was written, you should take everything with a generous pinch of salt and check for updates. Who knows, in 3 months, [...]