It’s a strange feeling, but I really enjoy booting up and using Ubuntu—as my primary OS at home, like I have felt for no other before. I mean, I am neither a linux kernel diver, nor a developer. I’m just this regular guy—okay I run this website, but that’s it. Nothing fancier than that.

Greetings once again one and all, in the last post I mentioned how I'd recently found myself installing Linux whilst sat in the bar of a ferry crossing the Irish Sea. I have to say it's got to be the most exotic place I've ever installed Linux, so I thought I'd elaborate a little on an adventure in open source of an all together different nature.

Windows is a very important platform, and our justifiable pride in Linux and the GNU stack shouldn’t blind us to the importance of delivering software that is widely useful.

Every now and then you'll come across someone arguing that, instead of having several different desktop environments (Xfce, GNOME, KDE), their respective developers should team up to create The Perfect DE. Apart from the fact that this is just impossible, I'd like to argue that this fragmentation is actually beneficial. Benefits that go beyond "more choice".

There is a certain misconception which suggests that open source becomes the hostage of companies. It is, to a large degree, a self-serving hypothesis whose purpose is perhaps to demoralise volunteer contributors.

"This isn't a list of impossible goals -- all of these things are attainable if the Linux industry and community were to decide that they are priorities. That's not to say that they'd be easy to accomplish, but the Linux community has proven good at working together when it's important."

"Militant, user, sympathiser, curious people of the software, of the culture and of the open art, this letter addresses to you. [...] We are Ralamax Prod, we have already produced and distributed some films under free licenses [...] and we have today a project of feature film : Varsovie-Express. Consider from now this film like a travel.

To some people, the increasing number of Linux distributions serves as a disadvante when it comes to attracting new users. To Christopher Smart, it's a plus point - the way he puts it, if he had not been able to roll his own, he never would have achieved the level of understanding of Linux he has today.