Ruminations on the Digital Realm

In the fall of 2007 I wrote two 30-day series about PC-BSD and DesktopBSD respectively. I was impressed by the ease of use and the level of maturity,not of the software but of the people developing and using BSD.
When I was finished I ran across a blogpost by Dru Lavigne who pointed at a new [...]

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Originally on Content Only! 26 April 2007
At least, that is what Microsoft is trying to tell me. Some time ago, the company that used to call open source something nasty launched it’s {Open Source} Heroes website. You may call it part of a wider strategy to provide a place for developers who warm up to [...]

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First Impressions: Mandriva Spring 2008
Orignally on Content Only!, 23 april 2008
Maybe I am wrong, but I have seen only raving reviews about the new Mandriva Spring 2008. Positive reviews. Since I always like to draw my own conclusions and Mandriva is one the releases this spring, I decided to give it a spin. I installed [...]

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The digital realm is abuzz with the fruits of our keyboards. My editiorial job for Livre magazine involves keeping track on a collection of newsfeeds concerning open source, open standards and related fields. One conclusion is paramount: the number of articles with original content is extremely limited. Much of what is written and published has [...]

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Yesterday I posted about moving away from Thunderbird in order to have a more integrated system for calendaring, e-mail, tasks and projects. One missing element was the ability to synchronize Evolution with my iPaq 3850. It was one of those experiments that I attempted over the last couple of years and which failed. However, [...]

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