The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu
by Peter Reutemann
"According to this article, 'Whether Ubuntu is declining is still
debatable. However, in the last couple of months, one thing is clear:
internally and externally, its commercial arm Canonical appears to be
throwing the idea of community overboard as though it was ballast in a
balloon about to crash.' The author points out instances of community
discontent and apparent ham-handedness on Mark Shuttleworth's part.
Yet isn't this just routine kvetching in the open source community?"
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/11/27/1955239
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 6 months
How to Remote Control Your Camera with Darktable on Linux
by Peter Reutemann
"We've talked about Darktable before, because it is a wonderful
advanced RAW photo editor and workflow manager. My current favorite
feature is tethered shooting, which is connecting a camera to your
computer and controlling it with Darktable. Obviously this is not very
convenient for hiking or street photography, but for studio and tripod
work it's the bee's knees."
-- source: http://bit.ly/1jK1fdy
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 6 months
Meeting tonight
by Peter Reutemann
Hi everyone
Just a reminder that we have a WLUG meeting tonight. Elroy will be talking
about Asterisk and Raspberry Pi.
The committee will meet prior to that at 6.30pm.
Hope to see you there.
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 6 months
Saturday Workshop Nov 23
by Bruce Kingsbury
Just a reminder to all; I'm running my own independent Saturday Workshops.
November 23, 2013 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
*Te Whare O Te Ata*
60a Sare Cres
Hamilton, 3214
07 8557804
A Linux-focused workshop where people can bring their PCs for
trouble-shooting and to learn or try out new skills.
All visitors welcome, light lunch provided, gold coin donation appreciated
6 years, 6 months
Canonical Developer Warns About Banking With Linux Mint
by Peter Reutemann
"Ubuntu developer Oliver Grawert does not prefer to do online banking
with Linux Mint. In the official mailing list of the distribution,
Ubuntu developers stated that the popular Ubuntu derivative is a
vulnerable system and people shouldn't go for online banking on it.
One of the Ubuntu developers, Oliver Grawert, originally pointed out
that it is not necessary that security updates from Ubuntu get down to
Linux Mint users since changes from X.Org, the kernel, Firefox, the
boot-loader, and other core components are blocked from being
automatically upgraded."
'Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint project founder, has since made a
statement and confirmed that Oliver Grawert seems "more opinionated
than knowledgeable" adding "the press blew what he said out of
proportion." '
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/11/18/2046208
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 6 months
Yearly FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising Campaign Is On
by Peter Reutemann
"The FreeBSD Foundation's annual year-end fundraising drive is
currently running. Their goal this year is US$ 1M, and they're
currently at US$ 427K. In 2013, the efforts that were funded were from
the last drive were: Native iSCSI kernel stack, Updated Intel graphics
chipset support, Integration of Newcons, UTF-8 console support,
Superpages for ARM architecture, and Layer 2 networking updates. Also
various conferences and summit sponsorships, as well as hardware
purchases for the Project. The Foundation is a US 501(c)3 non-profit,
so your donations (if in the US) are tax-deductible. Some of the
larger 2013 (corporate?) sponsors so far are NetApp, LineRate,
WhatsApp, and Tarsnap."
-- source: http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/13/11/17/0046224
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 6 months
