Tag Archives: free software

Ubuntu Global Jam issues call for events

Posted on 08/02/2012 by woodsy

Yesterday Jono Bacon published a blog post inviting people around the world to organise events for this year’s Ubuntu Global Jam, which is being held from 2nd – 4th March. The Ubuntu Global Jam is a worldwide fun event that’s … Continue reading →

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New Spark open tablet, complete with Linux & KDE pre-installed

Posted on 06/02/2012 by woodsy

PC World reports that KDE developer Aaron Seigo revealed over the weekend that a 7-inch Linux tablet named “Spark” will soon be available with KDE Plasma Active tablet interface as its default user interface. It will be priced at €200 … Continue reading →

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rms writes: measures governments can use to promote free software

Posted on 26/01/2012 by woodsy

Richard Stallman (pictured), also known as rms, the originator of the free software movement, has posted an article suggesting policies for a strong and firm effort to promote free software within the state, and to lead the rest of the … Continue reading →

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Another call for the public sector to get involved in open source associations

Posted on 25/01/2012 by woodsy

Simon Phipps, director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), has joined the calls for public sector organisations using open source software to get involved in open source associations (news passim). Speaking at the recent World Open Source Conference, Phipps is … Continue reading →

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Spain: Extremadura to migrate 40,000 public sector desktops to Debian

Posted on 23/01/2012 by woodsy

Spain’s Publico recently reported (Spanish) that the autonomous regional government of Extremadura is planning to move all 40,000 of its desktops to Debian Linux. In taking this step, Extremadura would be the leading Spanish public sector organisation for the use … Continue reading →

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Bristol Wireless on Techradar

Posted on 01/01/2012 by woodsy

Regular readers will remember that we had a visit from journalist Jonathan Edwards (news passim) which ultimately resulted in Bristol Wireless being the subject of a four-page feature in the Christmas 2011 edition (issue 158) of Linux Format (news passim). … Continue reading →

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Public sector open source quote of the week: “EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice”

Posted on 22/12/2011 by woodsy

But who said it? According to Joinup, it was Christian Ude, the Mayor of Munich, whose local authority is a European leader in the deployment of open source by the public sector in general and local authorities in particular. It … Continue reading →

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Portugal: schools advised not to renew proprietary software licences

Posted on 21/12/2011 by woodsy

In what could be interpreted move to increase the amount of open source software used in academia (or just public sector miserliness. Ed.), Portugal’s Ministry of Education has advised the country’s schools not to renew their licences for proprietary operating … Continue reading →

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GPL in decline?

Posted on 20/12/2011 by woodsy

According to an analysis by the 451 Group, the proportion of open source projects that uses the GPL family of licences – the granddaddy of all free and open source licences – has been declining for several years, The H … Continue reading →

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Lab report, Friday December 16th

Posted on 16/12/2011 by woodsy

It’s been an interesting day in the lab. Your correspondent arrived early in the lab and found Rich and Acesabe getting ready to out on a cabling job, running Cat6 round a new office for a client. After a while … Continue reading →

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