Well, it was a good thing we called OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 “Prague”, as just watching the new Mandy Moore flick, Chasing Liberty had a heck of a lot of references to Prague. More references to Italy and all though, since she ran away from Prague really quickly. Maybe rather than voting, we should just take some random movie that I like to watch and name it after that :) (since we had plenty of issues with the vote, it seemed)
Day started off with me looking for many Malaysian magazines, before waiting for an interview. Bought a few, had lunch, and a relatively good interview. Later, meeting with Red Hat Malaysia’s man, getting an insight into how he thinks… It’s not good. Dinner with friends later. Dinesh got into a motorcycle accident, on a superbike sorta thing – get well soon from all of us
We are doomed. Well, the Linux in Malaysia push, or even the PC Gemilang support network, which should work together in tandem with others, is doomed. Granted, the sales haven’t nearly impressed anyone in the know, but we’re faced with a predicament.
Building a support network. And having a Ministry butt in, causes more grief. Why? Because this week I’m sitting in Kuala Lumpur to do just that – build a network of support. It’s been postponed you see – and mind you, people are already receiving PC Gemilangs….
Build the support network, its ready to take on anything once the sales are built. Today, folks can be buying the PC Gemilangs just for the cheap hardware, once they call the support centre, to hear a line like, “Uh, whats Linux?” Especially when Microsoft have already trained their lot since about a month ago.
Update: Edited for clarity, thanks to NSH/Simos :)
Because work is still done on the fedora ppc line of things, I track Sid (Debian unstable) on one of my iBook’s, to keep me relatively updated in the land outside of Fedora. Decided to dist-upgrade today, pulling in about 600MB of packages, with lots needing an update. libxft-dev gave me grief, Debian Bug reports gave me an answer – ended up just moving the file, and making it all well again. Seems dpkg-divert is borked, so it isn’t the XSF’s fault.
More grief though: acme is now something gnome requires; pbbuttonsd/gtkpbbuttons conflicts with acme, and if its installed, gnome goes away. Not fun. I like gtkpbuttons with its display of increasing or decreasing contrast/volume values, which acme doesn’t give me. Why can’t software not “conflict” with each other, and let the user decide which he/she wants to use? I’d definitely disable acme…. if I could. Ideas, anyone?
Update: Because oss “just works”, and ALSA is a whole bag of bones, getting mplayer to work is fun with a new switch: -ao oss. No alsa usage, just nice working, oss.
Everyone should sign this petition: Linux/Open Source Against US-AU FTA Intellectual Property Clauses. Read LA’s FTA stuff too. Call to arms by Rusty earlier today…
Yay, Fedora’s English unrolling exercise is complete. Unrelated, good reading on Internet marketing.
I’ve been keeping some Fedora Core 2 test notes, and thought that I’d make it public since the traffic on fedora-test-list is becoming pretty insane (with similar messages!). I present to you, Fedora Core 2 testX notes, where X is still {1,2}. So new testers, read this, it has lots of common errors/problems/etc…
Having some time today morning, the Outstanding Fedora Jobs list is also ready. Remember, the Fedora Project is community run, so community, please participate and let me run <strike>’s thru the list.
Update: I’ve added firstboot and anaconda screenshots from FC1; I think the firstboot stuff will come in handy since google images didn’t have any for me
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