Monthly Archives: February 2008
Israeli government stops Openoffice.org l10n funds
Quoting an announcement by Jonathan Ben Avraham from Tk Open Systems Ltd to the Israeli OO.org malling list: The Hebrew OpenOffice project at openoffice.org.il will close for an indefinite recess at the end of February 2008. … As of this … Continue reading
Filed under Openoffice.org
FOSDEM 2008 and the art of Juggling
People have different methods to handle the overwhelming amount of lecture and events. Some just stick to one or two rooms and hear all the related issues, some goes by topic (which might be presented in different places) and I … Continue reading
The 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage
In 24 hours 21% of the triage is already done due to an amazing responsiveness from Debian’s openoffice.org users. From the total of 285 bugs targeted by the triage, 35 were closed and 27 were reproduced. Another 20 bugs are … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org, QA stuff
Openoffice.org bug triage
Lior: “My name is Lior, and it has been 6 months since my last bug triage.” Support group: “we love you Lior…” While I was thinking of doing another openoffice.org bug triage for version 2.2.1, version 2.3.1 had already entered … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org, QA stuff
The benefits of working with GPL drivers
For the last few day I’m having problem with the tg3 driver for Broadcom’s NetXtreme Ethernet NIC on an IBM System x3850 machine with RHEL4 update 4. The problem was that the tg3 driver recognizes only one NIC and ignores … Continue reading
Filed under Proud to use free software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Commercial companies and (the lack of) changelogs
As a Debian maintainer, I got a habit of reading the changelog of packages I install or want/need to upgrade. My problems begin with these packages come from some commercial compay, as most of them don’t log their changes. Oracle’s … Continue reading
Filed under Proprietary software
