Contrary to what Miguel de Icaza believes about the ISO approval of OOXML as an office document format standard, this is nothing but a big loss for the free software and open source communities. Yes, the whole OOXML approval process broguth Microsoft to a somewhat “open” direction. But the truth is that there’s nothing open […]
Git is a distributed version control system. I won’t go into much details of what Git is or why use Git instead of other VC systems. There’s plenty other sites where to check that information. I love Git, but there’s a slight problem with Ubuntu’s repositories (feisty, gutsy): its an old version. Git’s version on […]
Finally I’m on my way to CONSOL. I missed the first day, but I hope I didn’t miss much. I’m a bit nervous because I don’t know my way around on south Mexico city, but I’ve been on worse situations. The main thing that worries me is that I didn’t bring any laptop with me […]
Estoy muy emocionado porque han aceptado mi platica en el CONSOL. * Usando Git: control de versiones distribuido o Gabriel Saldaña Torres Sesión Técnica – 1 hora Aplicaciones Aceptada Tambien estoy algo nervioso porque es mi primera platica. Pero creo que todo saldra muy bien. Eso si, estoy de acuerdo con Zodman y los tres […]
I’ve been using the KDE4 from the Ubuntu Gutsy repositories for two days now, and I know there are a lot of missing features but here are my top 5: Printers: they are missing from the kde4 settings manager program. I know its not a full all bells and whistle final release, but can this […]
Today was the official release of KDE4, and the Kubuntu packages are already available for download and use. Here’s a screenshot of my current desktop: How to install? If you want to install KDE4 in your current Ubuntu or Kubuntu Gutsy is very easy. First add the repository to your sources list: sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list […]