Yesterday Linspire’s CEO Kevin Carmony made the big announcement that Linspire would be offering a Free version of Linspire called Freespire.
This really IS big news. After going through the Freespire web site I get the following out of it.
Freespire will be offered in 2 versions at no cost
Free version will not contain any proprietary codecs […]
As I mentioned in my previous post I finally installed my Hauppauge 150 tv card and wanted to check out the lastest offering from KnoppMyth. The name KnoppMyth is a little misleading. KnoppMyth is NOT a live CD that lets you run MythTV. Rather it’s the easiest and quickest way to get a dedicated MythTV […]
This morning I went and checked out the TLLTS Frappr Map to see what the count is at. I looked at the last bunch of entries and noticed they had no locations listed. Even worse the comment section was full of SPAM!!! Un-fricking real! Spammers are now hitting Frappr maps! How desperate can you be? […]
Over at Digg I noticed a link to this very good article on backing DVD’s to DivX. Why backup to DivX? It’s a very good codec that has fantastic quality and the file sizes are relatively small. A 1 hour Mpeg2 video will be about 1 gig in size while the DivX version will […]
I sent out my Panasonic DVD recorder for servicing because it no longer records to DVD+R. This is a problem if I want to watch recordings on another DVD player. Fortunately the recorder is still under warranty so fixing it won’t cost me anything. The bad news is that I probably won’t see it again […]
So I’ve been home for a couple days now and have decided who should get my praise and who should get my scourn. To me the one company who has hands down displayed a commitment to F/OSS that no one even comes close to is Novell. They have done some fantastic work since becoming a […]
During the ride back from Boston me and Dan discussed the whole issue of multiple linux desktops and wider mainstream linux adoption. We both agreed it seems most distributions of linux are favoring Gnome these days. After talking to some developers at the Linux World Expo it seems the consensus are picking Gnome primarily because […]
Well the final day of the Linux World Expo was fantastic. We started the day off by talking to Lincoln Durey of Emperor Linux. We then interviewed our buddy Paul Cooper from Open Advantage in the U.K.. We followed up with an interview with Steven Vaughan-Nicols from Eweek for his take on the convention as […]
Another fantastic day at the LWE in Boston. It was a little less crowded as the first day so I didn’t get as hoarse at the end of the day as Tuesday. Today we had some great interviews with Kevin Carmony from Linspire, Nat Friedman from Novell and Michael Loffler from the OpenSuse project. […]
We had an amazing first day at the Linux World Expo in Boston. The day got a very surreal start when a fire broke out at the Unisys booth which is located pretty close to our booth. A plume of smoke set off the fire alarms and the fire department moved in to remedy the […]