http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog Roger Sinel - IT technician. New Zealander living and working in Sweden Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:41:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The day has come around again. The day when my favourite Operating system releases it's new version. Check it out. Release Notes, Feature List Download Fedora /Roger Sinel Fedora Ambassador http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=194 Well it turned out to be a very successful day. We handed out lots of CD's and flyers and books. And we were 20 FOSS professionals and students that turned out on a sunny September day to promote our favourite software model. Photos The the After SFD meeting was also a well ... http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=193 A colleague of mine Mathias Firman from the Swedish Linux Society has just released an interesting PodCast for Software Freedom Day 2009. It is a talk about the secret and exiting world free software. Worth a listen. http://torrent.arrakis.se/SoftwareFreedomDay/SoftwareFreedomDaySverige_Podcast1.ogg.torrent It is in the free format ogg so you need a ... http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=192 I was just reading the Fedora 12 Alpha release notes and was interested to see that they have switched all the software packages in Fedora from Gzip to the more efficient XZ (LZMA) compression method. These compression method is usually used in the kernel, so I just had to try it ... http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=191 So this time has rolled around again. And It's time to start organising this important event again. http://forum.softwarefreedomday.se/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=104 http://softwarefreedomday.org/ /Roger Sinel http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=190 Yesturday my favorite GNU/Linux distro released it's latest version. For the first time in about 3 years I was not able to download and install on release day. This was due to us releasing a new major version of our software at work, and activities around this release took ... http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=189 My favourite GNU/Linux distro soon has a new version available. Fedora 11 feature list /Roger Sinel Fedora Ambassador http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=188 I'm finally getting out on my bike again. The spring is here and my sore back is feeling a lot better after a few months of exersises. So I'm finally out there on the open rode again. I found an interessting site for bike nerds like myself. A bicycle blog type of ... http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=186 At the moment besides working a little to much lately, I'm organizing a meeting for the local Computer Society here in Stockholm Sweden. The evening will be talks based on FOSS, Free and Open Source software. Then evening will slowly gain pace as the talks get shorter and shorter. The first ... http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=185 This is an interesting development. "RedHat Patent Pending" . This will be a lively debate worth following. What ever their real reason is for doing this, I hope the day never comes when this patent portfolio gets used to infringe peoples freedom's. /Roger Sinel http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=184