Cool! Just now in the office they handed out these attractive looking Unfakeable Linux T-shirts. Thanks to Mo* for modeling. I hope we sell these in the Cool Stuff Store. I think many people out there would love to buy these. Please leave a comment here if you are interested in buying this shirt. *Yes, we have attractive women at RH! Really!
Archive for November 3, 2006
Great post on the Debian/Firefox spork
I think its important to focus on the key fact that regardless of who did what, and who said what, there are fundamental conflicts between 100% free-as-in-freedom software and the need for trademarks to protect users. The logo itself is no more encumbered than the trademark, and any lack of freedom for the icon is identical to the … trademark. … Does the issue of trademarks absolutely require forking? Absolutely not, Debian could simply specify alternate branding to comply with the DFSG, and still work with the rest of the mozilla.org community to maintain and improve the apps they’re shipping. I would personally be glad to work with them, despite some public perceptions that I’m some freedom-hating corporate tyrant.
Fedora Core and Yellow Dog Linux: The Two Good Choices for Mac Hardware
One particular distribution has always come to mind when someone mentions “PPC Linux”, and that is Yellow Dog Linux. Now there is another “dog” in town, Red Hat’s own Fedora Core. By version 3, it was relatively simple to get it installed on Macs using some of the innovations made by Yellow Dog many years earlier. Which one is right for your Mac?
