{"id":89,"date":"2004-04-03T02:29:04","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T07:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=89"},"modified":"2004-04-03T02:29:04","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T07:29:04","slug":"lots-of-linux-things-happening-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/03\/lots-of-linux-things-happening-now","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Linux things happening now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days have been most active with lots of new things in the Linux world. Some thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/04\/spray_on_usability\">usability<\/a>, and a fairly nice response <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearwildheaven.com\/GNOME\/\">based on GNOME 2.6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1012_3-5183642.html\">Corel&#8217;s WordPerfect<\/a> is going to be available on Linux again (back then, I preferred it to StarOffice 5.1); this implies we need to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.openoffice.org\/\">wp filter<\/a> working soon. Also available is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktoplinux.com\/news\/NS9811381316.html\">IndeView<\/a> &#8211; burn it on a CD, with your OOo presentation and you have an instant viewer! This is our first OOo viewer of sorts, and if we use this to our advantage, a light-weight Writer\/Calc viewer might come soon too.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/4\/1\/red-hat-meetup\">Red Hat Meetup<\/a> we had, I&#8217;ve gotten Jason to make us a special SIG at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luv.asn.au\/\">Linux Users of Victoria<\/a>! I present the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luv.asn.au\/redhat\">Red Hat LUV SIG<\/a> for Red Hat and Fedora discussions; we&#8217;ll meet once a month, have a list set up soon enough, and be a nice community together now :) Wonder if this is the first SIG that&#8217;s been started up based on the RH Meetup?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Lots%20of%20Linux%20things%20happening%20now&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F04%2F03%2Flots-of-linux-things-happening-now&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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