Category: GNU/Linux
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Replicant funding opened doors for further development
Replicant funding organised by the Free Software Foundation was a great success ! People donated over 20,000 USD over the past two months. The project didn’t expect that much money and it will greatly cover their needs, which include buying new devices and cover travel-related expenses, allowing developers to attend events such as FOSDEM. On…
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Meeting Richard M. Stallman
I would like to share with you my experience meeting the most important person in the GNU/Linux community, Richard M. Stallman (RMS), the man who started the free software movement. It was on April 20th 2012, when Andraž announced on RIPE-64 Twitter blog, that RMS will attend the “Digitizing ideas and Common Knowledge” conference at the…
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LXDE – Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment
I have been fond of lightweight window managers for some time. For a long time I’ve been using IceWM, but it has a trouble with the menu it didn’t want to generate new applications list at the time when they were installed, so I was seeking for a lightweight Desktop Environment instead and came accross LXDE.…
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Fairphone transparent cost breakdown
Fairphone company which aims to produce the first ethical mobile phone, revealed their “cost breakdown“, where they explain the 325 EUR price tag and how this will be divided between production and organizational costs. It is nicely presented in a graphical PDF file.
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Fairphone operating system
While looking forward about obtaining one out of 25000 ethicaly made Fairphones through pre-order, which are announced for December, Fairphone has recently announced their own custom made Operating System, which will be based on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS. It will be designed by Kwamecorp. The main benefits of the new interface are: Edge Swipe:…
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GNU 30th anniversary
The GNU project was started 30 years ago by Mr. Richard Matthew Stallman with it’s primary goal to distribute completely free (free as in freedom) software. It includes more than 80% of the code shared by todays popular systems often mistakenly called Linux (Linux is just a kernel, which was the missing part at that…
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Fairphone – the new alternative
Fairphone is an alternative campaign to create a mobile phone with a fair share of payments to everyone involved in the project. It begins with the lowest process, with mineral digging workers in People’s republic of Congo and Zambia, where Fairphone will pay them 6 usd/day, which is more than 3 times the amount that other…
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Utilite miniature embedded ARM computer
I was in search for a replacement miniature embedded system to serve as my home router and XBMC video platform. Currently serving this purpose is the pico-ITX form factor Raspberry PI. While RPI still uses older ARM CPU v6, the Utilite in the pro-version uses quad core Freescale i.MX6 ARM v7 Cortex A9 CPU running at 4 x 1.2…
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Donate to Replicant and support free software on mobile devices
The Replicant project is a fully free Android (replacement) distribution running on several mobile and tablet devices. It is sponsored from the Free Software Foundation which currently runs a fundraiser campaign to support this project. Donations to the fundraiser will enable developers to obtain new devices. Replicant is also looking for new developers to get involved…
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Richard M. Stallman inducted into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame
Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman today joins the ranks of notable individuals who have been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for their significant contributions to the advancement of the global Internet. Links to official articles: FSF official post Internet Hall of Fame offical post Congratulations !
