It is perhaps comforting to know that some believe American Empire is not doomed to irrelevance. But much of American Industry seems bent on trying. Aside from their usual shabby treatment of their customers with lawsuits and wholesale purchase of politicians through lobby organizations, they love to write law that suits their complacency, hoping to [...]
The impact that MeeGo will have on the mobile computing world should not be underestimated. It is a shot across the bow from two of the biggest names in computing. The message is simple: those who can develop, deploy, and market the best, win. Why would Intel and Nokia bundle up some of their most [...]
There is a pretty slick new development tool for the Maemo platform out now called MADDE. It is aimed at the Maemo sweetspot: Qt development. It works on the big three platforms, though I have only installed it on Linux. MADDE is designed to make cross compiling and generally building applications easier, and it appears [...]
Recently, while researching a blog post or two about how to package python apps, I’ve run across some really good resources on packaging that I’d like to point out. One is Ubuntu-oriented and the other is debian-oriented, but a deb is a deb so use which every one you prefer. The first: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Python is from [...]
Gandhi said one has to become the change that one desires. To enable a change towards more openness, and make community generated bug fixes and improvements available to everyone who wants them, I’ve set up a community repository for updates to software that is not being maintained by anyone else. This repository hopefully can show [...]
I subscribe to the debian policy mailing list which often has some really interesting posts. This is one that I thought people would like to see, it needs wider distribution. The reason is that it is a pretty clear set of graphs showing how a package gets installed on debian and the consequences of installer [...]
While interesting articles from Reuters are one way to measure the hype around the new Maemo device, another way is to measure developer participation. There is some data to go on, though a lot is anecdotal. Firstly, I think we have seen increased traffic on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net #maemo) with lots of new users [...]
Benjamin Mako Hill has written a great deal on Ubuntu and Debian and has been around both projects for a while. I just discovered a new article written by him and Kyle Rankin called Package Management in Ubuntu Server. It appears to be part of a book although I can’t tell which one. At first [...]
It’s a normal day, I am being bombarded by twitter, facebook, the intertubes, et. al. and I come across a tweet from @debian mentioning the new packages available from the last few weeks. I look at what has come into debian for something interesting and there is a lot, like an ofono package. What catchse [...]
On the debian developers mailing list madduck asked about various package checking tools in debian. The resulting discussion revealed how many tools there are in debian to check packages; tools like piuparts, PET, and packagecheck. In contrast to Maemo, debian hackers seemed to be obsessed with the quality of their packages. The mantra “Policy is [...]