Rockbox 3.0 is out! – I’ve installed it and it’s working well. The default theme is nice, and radio seems to work on my iRiver H10. On the downloads page you can see what pocket music players are supported. GIMP 2.6 is out too! The user-interface has been improved so that the toolboxes shouldn’t get Read more »
A GNU Hackers Meeting recently took place in the UK. Videos are now online, and there is a mailing list for future meetings. How to contribute to OpenStreetMap, even if you don’t have a GPS logger gNewSense 2.1 is released Photos of the candle light vigil against software patent, in Bangalore See also: Yesterday’s links Read more »
The Chinese Translation Server Error shop Microsoft Windows crashes with BSOD during Olympic opening ceremony George Orwell’s 1938 diaries being serialised as a blog July’s GNU releases, by Henrik Sandklef See also: Yesterday’s links – the archive of my Links posts. — Ciarán O’Riordan, Support free software: Join FSFE’s Fellowship
Logged in or out, Facebook is watching you. (discussed on Slashdot) A campaign site against "Deep Packet Inspection" – snooping by your ISP. An EC consultation about European Interoperability Framework (EIF) – they’ve previously discussed removing their support for open standards and free software, so we should comment on the importance of these things. Firefox Read more »
Proposed changes to India’s patent approval manual, along with comments from Redhat, Microsoft, etc. The Clipperz project’s call for privacy and software freedom in webapps, including input from Stallman FreeGIS.org – a site collecting info about free mapping/geographic data projects. I haven’t had the time to poke around much, but there’s a database page where Read more »
FFII PR: McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi – an insider’s criticisms of the OLPC’s seemed move toward MS Windows (with an interesting link to a New York Times article on the failure of cheap laptops as an educational tool). Microsoft has asked for help from Read more »
gNewSense 2.0 aka DeltaH is released. The Guile project’s new FAQ. Guile is GNU’s embedable Scheme interpreter. Version 1.8.5 was just released. Squaring The Net a French initiative against a proposed Internet filtering law. Software patents and free software – Wikipedia’s article on the relationship between the two. Contains good links. Maybe you can improve Read more »
"Yesterday’s links" will be "Links" from now on. That leaves room for the title to be more descriptive: EU proposal to extend copyright suffers big setback. GNU software releases for December 2007. Firemacs, a Firefox addon to make it use Emacs keybindings for editing text. EU consultation on "Creative Content Online", open until February 29th. Read more »
Some interesting things: The BBC’s iPlayer Goes to Parliament, by Sean Daly with *lots* of links to more info on this DRM issue. I Wouldn’t Steal, an EU-level campaign to highlight that copying music is not the same as stealing handbags or shoplifting, by the European Green Party. Slashdot story asking about free software DRM, Read more »
From now on, "Yesterday’s Links" will be about whatever I’m up to. Better bloggers and blog readers tell me that this is what my blog should be for, so I’ll try. I’ll rename the series sometime. Some things I did recently: Publicised the RMS pavia transcript: LWN.net, Linux.com Newsvac, Blu-Gnu ODF Alliance meeting – strategy Read more »