Category: GNU/Linux
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Why is Free Software good for you
On my earlier blog post I wrote about the difference between proprietary and Free Software (free as in freedom, not free as a free beer) and use of proprietary software on (mobile) devices. Here I would like to expose more links for you to read regarding this topic : Richard M. Stallman’s article about “What…
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Trisquel GNU/Linux on my laptop
I am proud that I am now using Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution for my daily work on a laptop. It is a distribution that is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation and it is based on Ubuntu, so if you already know Ubuntu and care for more freedom, you should consider using it, too. There is…
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From Free Software to Hardware
In order to use free software successfully, we need more free (free as in freedom) hardware available. Because the computer industry requires lots of funds/investments into hardware design, many companies unfortunatelly mostly try to make their hardware proprietary. Therefore making it difficult for free software to run on them without restrictions. Here are some links…
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Richard M. Stallman about human rights
Richard M. Stallman [1][2] is an American software freedom and human rights activist and the founder/chairman of the Free Software Foundation [3][4]. These are some interesting videos from his lectures : R. Stallman Why is free software important? (7 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPPikY3uLIQ R. Stallman On threats to freedom! (8 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es1noVdsPfY R. Stallman On libraries, surveillance,…
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BGP on RPI
For the needs at my home, I use BGP on the little Raspberry PI embedded device acting as a router. Having a redundant connection ( in case of the failure on one link, another link takes over ). How is it possible ? I use the Raspbian GNU/Linux distribution, which has the required routing software called Quagga.
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Free as in Freedom
I have noticed that my blog doesn’t contain any detailed description about my view on Free Software, so for those people who come to my blog, and think it’s just another thing that computer oriented people like to use, I would like to explain my vision about that in a few words. Beside the philosophical…
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Trisquel GNU/Linux
I have translated the article from English to Slovenian Wikipedia about Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution. Trisquel GNU/Linux is an operating system based on the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu.[1] The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a free version of the GNU/Linux kernel as distributed by the Linux-libre project.[2]
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One Laptop Per Child
I got a chance to obtain the One Laptop Per Child computer. It is a XO-1. I have ordered it from California and currently blogging about it on my other OLPC related blog.
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Raspberry Pi
In early September I bought Raspberry Pi (RPI). RPI is a credit card sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. I have installed Raspbian distribution on it which is a fork of Debian GNU/Linux. Additionally I installed XBMC a free and open source media player application which is a…
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New Free Software mirrors
I set up two new software mirrors. One being GNU Linux-Libre kernel, a project to maintain and publish 100% Free distributions of Linux, suitable for use in Free System Distributions. Second being the ISO mirror for Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution. Both mirrors are located in California, United States. Server space is kindly sponsored by Laszlo.
