Without much fanfare systemtap 0.8 was released a little while ago. There is one little tidbit in the release notes that does warrent some excitement though: User space probing is supported at a prototype level, for kernels built with the utrace patches. So what does that mean? Take for example the para-callgraph.stp script: $ stap […]
Paul wrote about “Fedora 10 around the corner!” and said something really nice: Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank you, the reader, if I haven’t already. You’re part of our community too, and without you we would be diminished. Free software isn’t just about bits and bytes, it’s about people, about doing […]
This post by Kirill Grouchnikov from Pushing Pixels made me sad: Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy Are we really doing that badly? Ever since the full GPL release by Sun of the reference implementation of Java as OpenJDK and the positive wave that IcedTea brought to unite the existing libre java […]
There is always a lot going on in the low levels of the GNU Toolchain (gcc, binutils, gdb, etc) but since it is so low level and sometimes a bit specialised it is hard to keep up. Luckily Nick Clifton started a blog writing a monthly GNU Toolchain Update. This month saw lots of GCC […]
We bought an Acer Aspire One A150 Ab, which comes with Linpus, a stripped down Fedora GNU/Linux distro. It also came with a nice printed GPL in the box explaining what it meant and various offers for the source code. The stripped down Fedora is somewhat limited, so we might upgrade it to a full […]
Benjamin Mako Hill, who is now on the board of the FSF, has a really great site Revealing Errors that has as goal to reveal errors that reveal the technology around us to learn how technology affects our lives. Wish I had seen this site earlier. As he explains it is a great way to […]
Finally upgraded my main workstation from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. If you are lazy like me then you might want to do it through Fedora PreUpgrade: $ yum install preupgrade $ preupgrade Very nice and completely painless! It also offers an easy way to go from Fedora 9 to Rawhide (the development branch).
From the “Freedom Fry” press release: The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing “Happy Birthday to GNU,” a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry. “Yum, chocolately good! The tastiest operating […]
So what is the first thing you try out on your little bare arm board when you get IcedTea, Cacao and gcjwebplugin working? You try to play slime volleyball of course! Read all about it on Xerxes Rånby’s blog.
Just saw A Lazy Developer Approach: Building a JVM with Third Party Software by Nicolas Geoffray, Gael Thomas, Charles Clement and Bertil Folliot. They show something I always found super cool about the community around GNU Classpath and the free software community in general. Working together on parts of free software to enable everybody to […]