If you happen to stumble across this site and want to recommend links for us published between 13 and 26 July 2008, please comment on this post. Review the kind of links we post, and then make a comment suggesting a link. In your comment include:
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Our licencing is up at Site licensing.
By Mary Gardiner
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Posted in Carnival
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Tagged Andrew Pollock, Attribution, Atul Varma, Benjamin Carlyle, Brendan Scott, Brian Jones, Casey Dahlin, Chris McDonough, Community, Curtis Poe, Deployment, Donnie Berkholz, Elections, Evgeniy Polyakov, Filesystems, Glyph Lefkowitz, Hacks, Ivan Krstić, John Palmieri, Jono Bacon, Justin Dugger, Library choice, Mark Ramm-Christensen, Mary Gardiner, Og Maciel, Project websites, Release management, Russ Albery, Software development, Sridhar Dhanapalan, Stuart Langridge, Ted Lueng, Ted Ts'o, Testing, Tim Connors, Tim Penhey, Version control
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Hello, we’re just getting started around here. Find out about us and our editorial policy but remember, nothing is set in stone yet. We’re also not drawing from a very large pool: if you can recommend posts published since 27 June 2008, please suggest them for our next post.
Bugs
Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) describes how important bug work is for distributions.
Free as in free
James Bottomley (Linux Foundation) compares the closed and open source driver models.
Brendan Scott (lawyer, AU community member) discusses closed source drivers and derivative works in the Australian context.
Design desicions
Bryce Harrington (Inkscape, Ubuntu) wishes user applications were more about streams of information and less about documents.
Debian had a lot of talk about the difficulty of visiting HTTPS sites without a trusted certificate using Firefox:
Packaging
Yaakov M. Nemoy (Fedora) is critical of the need for the LSB Packaging API.
Plumbing
Matthew Garrett (Fedora) makes the case for automatically determined power management settings.
Russell Coker (Debian) notes that reboots due to kernel security patches result in a non-trivial amount of downtime.
Version control
The GNOME blogs are all-in on distributed version control:
Meanwhile, in X land:
Romain Francoise (Debian) is graphing VCS usage by Debian software.
Translations
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay (GNOME, Fedora) reviews the state of Firefox localisation in Indic languages.
Ivory tower
Biella Coleman (Debian) recommends Chris Kelty’s “Two Bits: the Cultural Significance of Free Software”.
Women in Free Software
Miriam Ruiz (Debian) asks about the possibility of a glass ceiling in Debian.
By Mary Gardiner
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Posted in Carnival
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Tagged Adam Jackson, Alberto Ruiz, Biella Coleman, Brendan Scott, Bryce Harrington, Bugs, Daniel Stone, Design desicions, Federico Mena-Quintero, Free as in free, Ivory tower, James Bottomley, James Sharpe, Lennart Poettering, Mark Shuttleworth, Matthew Garrett, Mike Hommey, Miriam Ruiz, Packaging, Pierre Habouzit, Plumbing, Riku Voipo, Romain Francoise, Russell Coker, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, Steve Langasek, Thomas Thurman, Translations, Travis Reitter, Version control, Women in Free Software, Yaakov M. Nemoy
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If you happen to stumble across this site and want to recommend links for us published between 27 June 2008 and 12 July 2008, please comment on this post. Review the kind of links we post, and then make a comment suggesting a link. In your comment include:
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I won’t be giving Interstellar Medium any publicity for a week or two yet, so sssh…
Hello out there. This is Interstellar Medium, currently the cold dark space between the Planets, but soon to be a veritable party, bringing you the brightest lights from the Free Software blogs each week, approximately. Posts will be frequent and small for a little while while we get our bearings.
