Thursday, February 19, 2009
Funniest copyright license?
From a Debian bug report comes the copyright license for a file from a LaTeX package:
You have to wonder what the author had against telephone companies.
% This should appear in a file named diagram.tex
% Copyright 1988,1989 Michael Barr
[snip]
%
% All commercial rights reserved. May be freely distributed
% and used with the following exceptions:
% 1. No commercial use without explicit permission.
% 2. It may not be used by any employee of a telephone
% company.
% 3. It may not be distributed without this notice.
You have to wonder what the author had against telephone companies.
Labels: computers, copyright, humor, software
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 released!
A new version of the popular GNU/Linux operating system distribution Ubuntu 7.04 (aka, Feisty Fawn) has been released on schedule. Ubuntu variants, such as the KDE desktop version Kubuntu have also been released simultaneously.
For anyone who's already got Ubuntu, upgrade instructions are also up. The same page contains instructions for Kubuntu. (Note: For Kubunti upgrades, the link on the top of the page is broken. The information is on the same page. Follow the instructions labeled "Network upgrade for Kubuntu desktops (recommended)" about halfway down the page.)
If you don't yet have Ubuntu, you can download it or have a CD shipped to you.
[UPDATE: The info about the instructions for Kubuntu.]
For anyone who's already got Ubuntu, upgrade instructions are also up. The same page contains instructions for Kubuntu. (Note: For Kubunti upgrades, the link on the top of the page is broken. The information is on the same page. Follow the instructions labeled "Network upgrade for Kubuntu desktops (recommended)" about halfway down the page.)
If you don't yet have Ubuntu, you can download it or have a CD shipped to you.
[UPDATE: The info about the instructions for Kubuntu.]
Labels: free software, linux, software
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Festival of Free Software?
Debian has (finally) released Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, codename "etch," the next stable version of the popular community-run Linux distribution.
Here's what Slashdot user plasmacutter had to say (copy-pasted, so, spelling/capitalization errors are original):
As for me, one old webserver (an old Dell laptop named "craptop") that was running "etch" while it was still the "testing" distribution is now running "etch" stable.
Here's what Slashdot user plasmacutter had to say (copy-pasted, so, spelling/capitalization errors are original):
western nations base their entire diet around bread, so passover takes a huge chunk out of nerd diets (i know first hand), so to compensate for the scarcity of kosher food, they must have guzzled more caffeinated beverages.. thus resulting in the warp speed rush to 4.0 ..
As for me, one old webserver (an old Dell laptop named "craptop") that was running "etch" while it was still the "testing" distribution is now running "etch" stable.
Labels: computers, debian, free software, geekery, gnu, linux, software, yay
