Should open source devs sync their release schedules?

I came across an idea that’s getting tossed between Mark Shuttleworth and Tristan Rhodes suggesting that Linux distributions, and open source devs in general, synchronize their release schedules.

Alberto has Graduated

Alberto Milone, the developer of the Envy video driver utility, has completed his thesis and graduated from grad school.

By Popular Demand: The GNOME Equation tees are now available in SecondLife

I’ve been seeing hits from people looking for tees with the GNOME Equation on it, and while I don’t have them available for your bod to wear, you can now get them for your SecondLife bod.

WINE needs your votes

WINE, the ten yesr old open source program layer that lets Linux users run Windows programs (the name is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator)  is preparing for their 1.0 release in June and needs your help deciding which bugs absolutely need to be fixed before WINE 1.0 ships.

US Navy chooses Open Source

The US Navy, in a decision being rejoiced over by the Free and Open Source community, has announced that future IT purchases will only be of open source systems.

Congrats Mac4Lin!

It has just come to my attention that the Mac4Lin Transformation Pack , the tool many of us have used to bring the look of Mac OSX Leopard to their Linux systems, has been selected as one of 100 winners in the FOSS India Awards 2008.  Congratulations to its developer, Anirudh Acharya, on being recognized for such an awesome program. It certainly is well earned.

Viv le Liberation!

I’ve see many posts about how bad the default Sans font is in Ubuntu (it really is) and suggestions that people use the Bitstream Vera font as their default. I had made the switch and was a little happier, but it still wasn’t quite right. Then earlier this week I saw a post about the Liberation font on Planet Ubuntu and realized that I had not only found my new default sans serif font, I had also found new serif and monospaced (Courier) fonts, too. And everyone can use them, even Windows users.

This almost cries out to be on a t-shirt

While catching with the blogs on Ubuntu Planet today I saw something that should go on a tee if it only weren’t so long:

While it’s probably fine to make an ass out of yourself, please don’t apply the same logic to others.