Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes (Edsger Dijkstra)

Gtranslator in Wikipedia

Posted: marzo 15th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Free Software, Gtranslator | No Comments »

I have just added a new article for gtranslator in the Wikipedia.
Just a description for now but I’ll try to do a complete article.
You can edit it and to contribute, of course ;-)

Be the wikipedia my friend!


Testing Ubuntu 8.04

Posted: marzo 6th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Free Software | 1 Comment »

Yesterday I decided to upgrade my ubuntu to the new version 8.04. According to the release schedule this is the Alpha5 so all new features are included. Despite being a alpha version I didn’t have any problem during the upgrade process and everything seems to work fine. Now it is time to test it.
In order to do this, a new feature seems to be very useful, the automatic bugs report. As in Gnome, now when you get a crash in an application you can send a bug report in automatic way to ubuntu.

Another interesting feature is PolicyKit. Now you can run administrative applications as normal user and click in unlock button if you need to do an action that require root privileges.


Besides, Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 include a beta of the new Gnome 2.22 and a beta of Firefox 3.0 as default browser.
You can also install Firefox 2 from Add/Remove programs and to have both versions installed. This is very useful because for example, the Add-ons that I use normally don’t work in Firefox 3.0 yet.


FOSDEM 2008

Posted: febrero 29th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Free Software, Master on Free Software | 1 Comment »

Last weekend I attended to my first FOSDEM. It was a really good experience. Lots of people, lots of talks, lots of new ideas… in short time.

My classmates of the Master on Free Software and me presented a paper about Quality and Libre Software. As first experience I think was great. People showed enough interested on it.

I attended to many talks about different projects (Mozilla, Gnome, OpenOffice, Embedded devices, Freedesktop…) all of them were very interesting.

I found specially interesting a talk about integrating the Web into GTK+ applications with WebKit. I didn’t anything about this and really fascinated me. I’ll try to learn more about WebKit and who knows, maybe it could be used in gtranslator someday.