Archive for October, 2006

Birthday prezzie

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Pressure of work has kept me away from anything but essential OpenOffice.org tasks recently. However, after seeing the announcement about OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 (which I didn’t have any part in writing ) I couldn’t resist the temptation to do a quick download.
I’m an Ubuntu user, which means I should really wait for an updated [...]

An everyday tale of Linux folk

Monday, October 9th, 2006

One of the great challenges for open-source is to break out of preaching to the converted and into the wider world. One great way to do this is for every member of the community to ‘adopt’ friends, neighbours, relatives and convert them to open-source. Watching how they fare can provide valuable feedback on gaps still [...]