The Increasing Importance of Community

The Increasing Importance of Community

In recent years, I have been getting the distinct impression that the Open Source community is playing an increasing important role in distributions and business. Once pushed to the side, the community is now something that the large distributors seem to be actively...
Looky here, you

Looky here, you

Rather coincidentally, [Federico’s post](https://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-04.html#limiting-your-repaint-rate) lines up with some investigations that Frank Smith and I have been taking into the Jokosher drawing code. In Jokosher we tend to get...
You sure you want this on your planet?

You sure you want this on your planet?

Well, it appears [Mr Schaller](https://www.linuxrising.org/) had added myself and a bunch of other [Jokosher](https://www.jokosher.org/) hackers to [Planet GStreamer](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/planet/). Although I can’t guarantee all of my posts will be...
Die spiders, die

Die spiders, die

You know, I *hate* spiders. Sure, I know they perform some important ecological function that is critical in the scheme of things, but I just hate the damn creatures. This uniformed hatred doesn’t just apply to big spiders, no, it also includes those tiny...
Applications, not the OS

Applications, not the OS

[Simon](https://beerandspeech.org/index.php?/archives/78-Advocacy-Getting-Cross.html), I entirely agree with you that much of the problem with advocacy has been too much focus on Operating Systems. I remember my ex brother-in-law once said to me that he didn’t...