Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Keeping package management in mind
If you write and release Free Software, it may be a good idea to keep some things in mind. Just to, you know, make life a little easier on the package maintainers.
A critical bug in Free Software gets fixed
Ever wanted to know the life of a critical bug in a Free Software application? Some days ago a bug was discovered in FireFox’s (or rather the complete Mozilla Suite) GIF handling code. Life line: 2005-03-10 07:56 PST: The bug was reported 2005-03-10 12:52 PST: (5 hours later) The bug is confirmed. 2005-03-10 18:36 PST: […]
Ion2 window manager
Recently, I’ve been giving the Ion2 window manager a try. Ion2 is a window manager with a twist. Window managers like it are sometimes refered to as tiling window managers. Instead of the normal ‘floating’ windows, Ion2 tries to give each window as much screen space as possible. Normally, this would mean all windows are […]
In the beginning was the command line…
Neal Stephenson, of Cryptonomicon fame, once wrote an article called ‘In the beginning was the command line‘. It’s pretty old, and some of it is very much out of date. It’s still a good read though and he brings up many good points. One of the best points on Apple and Microsoft he makes is […]
Why FOSS won’t win against MS
Now here’s a real insightful comment on one of the things that’s wrong with FOSS (Free Open Source Software).
Sylpheed-claws killfile
I read a couple of newsgroups using Sylpheed-claws, but sometimes there are annoying trolls that irritate me to no end. I’ve often spent a couple of minutes finding out if sylpheed had a killfile. A killfile is file with a bunch of (regular expression) rules that are applied to messages in newsgroups. You can use […]
How to kill linux.
How to Kill Linux. My god, this Dvorak guy is dumb!. While you’re at it, check out his article on Microsoft’s marketing: The word on Microsoft is that it’s a copycat with great marketing. The company, however, likes to toss around the term “innovation” and rarely brags about its marketing. And nobody accepts the company’s […]
Your new Open Source project
Nice article on Newsforge How to plan your new open source project Lots of startup projects on the big online free software repositories have been abandoned right after being created, or linger in alpha stage for many years. I have founded four open source projects, of which two have been successful, while the other two […]
Becoming a Debian developer
NewForge has a nice article on becoming a Debian developer. The article gives nice insights into the process of becoming a Debian developer. It’s not as easy as it seems. I know some people that know some people that are Debian developers, and I’ve heard about the keysiging thing before. For some reason, I always […]
No other OS than Windows
Tee hee, check out this page: Find Out Which Operating System Your Computer Is Using at Microsoft.com. Here, let me quote a bit for you: Find Out Which Operating System Your Computer Is Using There are many versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. You may be using Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, or […]
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