WordPress

 October 26, 2013 -  Vignate, IT

Ubuntu

 April 30, 2011 -  Settala, IT

Open Source Licenses

 October 23, 2010 -  Vignate, IT

Google's Android 1

 September 28, 2008

Last week, Google unveiled Android 1.0. The first device that will feature this OS is going to be HTC Dream.

The Android platform is Google’s reply to Apple’s iOS. Or, at least, this is my read on the matter and the meaning I’m giving it in this article.

The main difference between Android and iOS is that Android will allow multiple companies to create competing Android devices. On the one hand, this will create more options for the consumers; on the other hand, it will create a less coherent experience.

Introduction to KDE4

 May 14, 2008 -  Sebastopol, CA, US

I’ve already talked about the NBLUG in a previous blog post. Yesterday night I presented at NBLUG an Introduction to KDE4.

In the talk, I’ve shown KDE4 features as well as look and feel. New features that will land in 4.1 also were discussed. After the talk, the people in the audience did ask some questions. I appreciated the interest of the present people in the new updates in the KDE and desktop space.

NBLUG

 September 12, 2007 -  Sebastopol, CA, US

Yesterday evening I went to the NBLUG for the first time. Actually, this is the first time I have gone to a Linux User Group event at all.

The evening started with a presentation by Kyle Rankin on how DNS works. The presentation was very interesting because we use DNS so frequently in our lives, but it “just works” for most people, and they have no idea how and why it works. I think tech people must understand how those base technologies work since, a lot of time, an issue can be pinned to something at an underlying level. In my experience, all abstractions in information technology are leaky abstractions. Therefore it’s critical to understand the whole stack to understand behaviors at a certain stack level.

Microsoft/Novell deal

 November 4, 2006

On the 2nd of November, Microsoft and Novell announced an agreement to share some patents, cross-marketing, and collaborative development.

The deal is very recent, and it is difficult to say what exactly it includes and what consequences (if any) it will have.

From the information currently available, it seems there are multiple parts to the deal:

• Both companies will work on the compatibility between their OSes and the other company’s virtualization solution (Windows on Xen and SLE on Viridian).
• There will be a collaboration between the companies to improve the compatibility between OpenOffice.orf and the Open Office XML Format.
• Novell and Microsoft will provide each other’s customers with patent coverage for their respective products.
• Microsoft will officially recommend SuSE Linux Enterprise to their customers that will enquire about Linux options.

I find this deal not favorable for the Open Source community for many reasons.

Fedora Bordeaux

 April 23, 2006

About one year and a half ago, I tried Fedora Heidelberg (Fedora Core 3), but it did not last too much on my machine because I was eager to test Ubuntu Warty Warthog.

Fedora Bordeaux (Fedora Core 5) got released about one month ago, and I immediately installed it. It has been a month now since I’ve installed it, and I like it. I feel that I’ll be using Fedora for a long time because I found an environment that feels right to me for the first time.