jonathan carter

I’m quite surprised at the lack of blog posts there have been about the news that ATI will be working with the Open Source community to develop 100% free 2D and 3D drivers for the Radeon chipsets. This is real big news, considering that, if you ask most Linux enthusiasts what the biggest problems in […]

Wow. Since June 1991, we’ve seen this in copyright notices in plenty of free software projects:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
And today, that changed to:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 29 June 2007
I am somehow doubtful that version 3 will also last 16 years. The GPL has been adapted to suite current problems which will […]

More or less 24 hours from now, we’ll have a brand new GNU General Public License. No matter how you look at it, it’s an important milestone for the free software community. It may affect which kernel(s) (and other software) we use in the future, it may have effects on business models for companies who […]

Warning: This post ended up longer than planned, if you are bored easily, only read the first two paragraphs
I’m a bit surprised that there haven’t been noise about this on the planets, but it’s probably due to the long weekend and people generally spending less time with their computers.
Via Slashdot, the OLPC XO […]

Sun Microsystems is shipping free OpenSolaris discs, which also includes Nexenta (a combination of Ubuntu and the OpenSolaris kernel).

I think I’ll try Nexenta on my home server, so that I can finally try ZFS, which I’ve been meaning to do for a very long time now!

Tomorrow is the last day of 2006. Wow, it’s been a wild ride, and the beginning of the year feels like a lifetime ago. It started out well, the project that I’m most involved with, tuXlab, reached a big milestone with the installation of the 200th lab. Since then, many replications has happened in South […]

Recently, I discovered that Mark Shuttleworth created a Nexenta team on Launchpad. I didn’t immediately think anything about it, then this morning I discovered Nexenta on the Launchpad distributons page. Nexenta is a GNU distribution with the OpenSolaris kernel, currently based on the Debian system. Are they (Nexenta) planning to move over to Ubuntu for […]