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2007 has seen huge events for Free Software. The java source code was (mostly) released by SUN, ATI/AMD opened up to the Free Software community, and the Dutch government has started using the term Free Software (vrije software) in its plans. Read More

This week I've been at the Jornadas de Software Libre conference in Tenerife. One thing that struck me was that the Spanish don't have a word for 'Open Source', which would be something like 'Codigo abierto'; they always use the term 'Software Libre'. The conference program even had the four freedoms of Free Software written on the back, along with an explanation. Read More

After all the sweat just the important links: Announcement, Screenshots, KDE Live-CD (i386), KDE Install CD (i386), other ISOs/DVD/Torrents.

Not even 2 days after out meeting in Berlin, there is an epilogue of the story: Qt/Windows Open Source Edition will support VS Express. Big thanks for considering this! There are always many comments about boundary between free and non-free tools. I can give two notes here: Read More

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Now that was quick! I got interviewed about KVocTrain/Parley today. Read it on blue-gnu.biz.

Ok, it's been a while, but Parley did not lay sleeping. Actually it ate up my spare time pretty well... Parley is sexy? Today I got an improvised page for Parley up. Read More

Recently I work on updating polish translation of QCad manual before its release in OpenOffice Polska. Andrew Mustun, QCad author, has switched to xparrot documenting tool, i.e. an online and offline toolkit, containing markup which is simplified compared to docbook. When using xparrot I sometimes think how faster my work is when I just use simple set of tags (that's why having this in KDE would make me motivated to update docs more frequently, and possibly - online). Yet I have not seen to many templates that take advantage of such semantics used in Docbook (which is great -but for machines)... <--!break--> Read More

(click to enlarge) Yes, this is working copy of KWord 2.0 alpha running on KDE 4 under MS Windows, compiled during KDE-On-Windows meeting in Berlin. I must say local Trolltech's office is great environment for developing. Read More

All efforts these days concentrate on openSUSE 10.3, the one CD installation medias and Live CD installer testing: the release candidate is planned for Thursday. The German box version is already listed and can be pre-ordered (eg SUSE Shop, Amazon.de). It will include a total of 16GB software for 32 and 64bit on two dual-layer DVDs this time! Read More