Archive for the 'GNU/Linux Matters' Category

January 6th 2008

On the road to the global top: 12 spots up in two months, 48 left

The GetGNULinux.org website, in the 49th position for the google search “Linux”.

Two months ago it was on the 61st position; it’s now in the 49th.

If the mean “speed” is 6 spots up/month, we might hit the top ten in the third quarter of the year.

One more link: Linux.

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October 15th 2007

So long, spam - Animador is now clean!

Whoa, I didn’t know we had more than 150 spam tickets on the Animador’s tracker (fortunately the other trackers were clean). It took me some time to find out how to get rid of this garbage, since there’s no graphic interface for Trac to do so… I ended up using a simple shell script:

Getting rid of spam tickets

As you’ve probably already guessed, SpamFilter is now enabled in all of the projects.

PS: I’ll talk about the progress of Animador later.

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September 23rd 2007

I’m not away

It’s likely that some of you have noticed that I’m very silent lately on GLM-related stuff. Indeed that’s true, but I’m not losing faith; it’s just that I am in Venezuela (my native country) after being in Spain for one year and I will go back to Spain in two weeks, so I’m trying to make the most out of my time here.

I’ve worked on GLM everyday since I arrived, but I’m avoiding public conversations for the time being… I’ve just been focused on things in the inner-workings of GLM, and I’m now trying to get Animador up and running.

So there’s nothing to worry about!

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August 2nd 2007

Digg it!

Please, digg this story: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Get_Linux

Cheers

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July 21st 2007

E-verano 2007

I’ve been been invited to the Spanish National Meeting of Free Software, in Seville, Spain. I’m in Seville at this moment, I arrived yesterday and I’ll leave tomorrow.

I’ve had the great pleasure to meet a lot of nice people, including (but not limited to) Pascal Chevrel (Mozilla Europe), Julian Coccia (Spanish Linux), Ramon Ramon (HispaLinux, the Spanish Association of Linux Users), people from Iniciativa Focus

I am very happy of the compliments I’ve received for GNU/Linux Matters and I’ll talk about it on our forum.

By the way, you can see me in espontaneas.com; the person behind me is Julian Coccia.

PS: If you speak Spanish, you should check out espontaneas.com.

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July 6th 2007

Testing, testing… 1, 2, 3… Testing

Well, it looks like I finally got a blog!

I will use it to talk about what’s going on behind-the-scenes with my contributions to the free software movement, mainly by means of GNU/Linux Matters. I want to let people know that we’re alive! That behind those cool but static websites there are people moving forward, getting ready to effectively defend Freedom in computing. Yes, we already have a blog, but I believe that a personal touch would be great as well. I look forward to seeing more people at GLM blogging about what’s happening under the hood.

But that’s not it. I’m studying computing, so you might think that I’ll blog about computing-related stuff; if so, you’re right. I love software and I wish I could only care about it, without worrying about whether it’s free or not… Every single piece of software must be free as in Freedom. Unfortunately, in the real world, most computing systems are powered by privative software.

I hope you enjoy it!

PS: You might wonder what’s “privative software”. I’ll explain it later, but in the mean time you can read dylunio’s brief explanation.

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