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Wanting to run virtual machines on my Linux machine, I decided to hunt for a QEMU rpm. I found this nice page that explains how to build QEMU rpms for Fedora Core. However he uses the kqemu accelerator which is not open source and I would rather use qvm86 which
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So, OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been released. If you've tried the 1.x series, this is much, much better. There's a very interesting interview with Louis Suarez-Potts available. ith unusually good timing I've managed to get South African builds of all our latest
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After being busy with lots of behind the scenes things and other work, I feel like I'm finally making progress on the following: Building OpenOffice.org on Windows - I've been working with Michael Meeks to get ooo-build working nicely on Windows with the 2.0
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At last got some nice progress done on Pootle this week, although it isn't visible on http://pootle.wordforge.org yet... * uploading PO files / archives * merging files together (from uploads) and putting unresolvable differences as suggestions * creating / updating files from templates I also put the latest source archives
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Very pleased to see the announcement of the Hula Project, a lovely web based mail and calendar solution that Novell has open-sourced. They really seem to be heading in the right direction with this one. Downloaded it and tried to set it up, still a few hiccups so will wait
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Have been playing around with PyLucene which is a native-compiled Python version of Lucene, a Java text indexing and searching package. It's an impressive engineering feat - basically compile Lucene to native objects using GCJ and then use SWIG to produce Python bindings - given how simply it
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Have managed to fix up the Pootle registration process, and set up a Pootle mailing list for any discussion. Also found that Pootle was being Spidered by search engines, so added a robots.txt file as that was placing a lot of load on the server. Now the TODO list
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It's really worth taking a look through the Free Software Magazine. Makes so much sense to have a magazine focussed on free software rather than some particular operating system. Now it would be nice to have regionally variant versions (say an African / Southern African one that adds locally
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Today packaging some stuff up for a client who runs RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Encountered the problem that although RedHat is built up of lots of packages, its virtually impossibile to determine what they are - there's no simple list of packages per distribution version. Although there&
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Having had many deadlines with my St James Software work, I haven't had a chance to respond to many Pootle / translate enquiries as I would have liked to. (Fortunately I've been making progress there, it's been nice to get things finished off). Anyway I
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We've put up a live version of Pootle at pootle.wordforge.org, kindly hosted by my employer, St James Software More details in the press release. What's been fun has been trying to maximize the number of projects and languages - so far we've
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Aaron J. Siego thinks that porting too much open source software to Windows will kill open source on the desktop. The fear reminded me of a conversation I had with Dwayne and Alberto in Tanzania. I said, I don't think we should define the platform in terms of