{"id":996,"date":"2008-09-03T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2008-09-03T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T06:00:04","slug":"happy-25th-gnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/03\/happy-25th-gnu","title":{"rendered":"Happy 25th GNU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Fry\">Stephen Fry<\/a> when he narrated The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy. Then, I saw him in V for Vendetta. Today, I can only highly recommend you look at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/fry\/happy-birthday-to-gnu.html\">Freedom Fry &#8211; Happy Birthday to GNU<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>GNU is 25 years old. Wow, it has come a long way. The Hurd is nowhere to be reckoned with, but Stephen does talk about Linux being a pillar. I have no idea why he seems to mention gNewSense, as I&#8217;m sure the non-free binary blobs usually entails something like working wireless, or working video, etc. Ubuntu with is non-free blobs, IMHO, is the best choice for new users&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Its interesting to see the MacBook Air perched on his coffee table (try running gNewSense on that baby). Its also useful to note that the video is played using the Fluendo Cortado Java app.<\/p>\n<p>Must watch video. 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Interesting snippets include (but at not limited to): Mohd Adlin Abu Bakar, managing director of M3 Management Sdn Bhd, the local distributor of Open Office. On Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.org differences - There is a 10% difference. M3 Management is one of four GNU\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":141,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/24\/building-gnome-27-with-garnome","url_meta":{"origin":996,"position":1},"title":"Building GNOME 2.7 with GARNOME","date":"24\/5\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Some useful resources for those running Fedora, and needing to build the latest tarball releases of GNOME. I decided to use GARNOME, instead of jhbuild this time, which meant I had to learn how to use GNU arch. 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My Debian GNU\/Linux on an iBook 2.2 guide is up. Finally uploaded the pictures from Christmas as well as some from the Tamil OpenOffice.org native-lang co-Lead Mugunth, when he attended my OOo Talk in Malaysia (circa early January). Oh, and from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1329,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/15\/debian-releases-lenny-mysql-51-soon","url_meta":{"origin":996,"position":5},"title":"Debian releases Lenny, MySQL 5.1 soon","date":"15\/2\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to the Debian team for releasing Debian GNU\/Linux 5.0 Lenny on Valentine's Day. This version comes with MySQL 5.0.51a. I had been pestering Norbert Tretkowski to see when MySQL 5.1 will move from experimental to main, and he told me once Lenny was released. 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