Software Cooperative News

This talk at Manchester Free Software’s meeting is covering the question:
“From the literally hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions in existence, what makes Debian special?”

For our co-op, it’s that “Debian GNU/Linux, like all GNU/Linux distributions, is the product of a massive cooperative effort” (in the words of former Debian project leader Branden Robinson) and that debian is [...]

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Contained in the recent billionth-spam report from Project Honeypot is the revelation that “The volume of spam drops approximately 21% on Christmas Day and 32% on New Year’s Day.” (Thanks to Raphael for the pointer.)
Happy Christmas to those of you who celebrate it…

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I’ve kept a page of email clients that support mailing lists for a while and it’s been a bit disappointing that I couldn’t suggest Mozilla Thunderbird or its freer derivatives (IceDove?) as good clients. They work fine in most other ways and it’s nice having something good that we can suggest to users on [...]

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I read the news about the launch of Ubuntu User by Linux New Media AG with some sadness. I believe that free software is stronger because of the informal cooperation between different distributions that usually do different jobs. It lets us see what’s growing in our neighbour’s garden. I’m a debian developer, [...]

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Away from the Yagooglive search engines, there have been some recent changes in the search space.
Bing launched a while ago, but I’ve only just read from Anglian LUG that Bing is badly biased, returning pretty poor results for openoffice, vista and windows searches.
In the following discussion, Bev mentioned Quintura which looks like an interesting newcomer, [...]

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