One more initiative by Google to reach out to the community and promote free and open-source software is the The Google Highly Open Participation Contest 2007/2008. The purpose of the competition is to enable young students older than 13 years old but have not entered yet the tertiary education, to participate in open-source development. To …
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Nov 11 2007
Localisation issues in home directory folders (xdg-user-dirs)
In new distributions such as Ubuntu 7.10 there is now support for folder names of personal data in your local language. What this means is that ~/Desktop can now be called ~/Επιφάνεια εργασίας. You also get a few more default folders, including ~/Music, ~/Documents, ~/Pictures and so on. This functionality of localised home folders has …
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Jul 23 2007
Important MO file optimisation for en_* locales, and partly others
During GUADEC, Tomas Frydrych gave a talk on exmap-console, a cut-down version of exmap that can work well on mobile devices. During the presentation, Tomas showed how to use the tool to find the culprits in memory (ab)use on the GNOME desktop. One issue that came up was that the MO files taking up space …
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May 03 2007
Retro: Getting the Ubuntu 7.04 CD
Το Ubuntu 7.04 ανακοινώθηκε πριν από 2 εβδομάδες, ημέρα Πέμπτη. Εκείνο το διάστημα δεν είχα καλή σύνδεση με το διαδίκτυο. Την επόμενη μέρα υπήρχε μια συνάντηση στο τοπικό LUG (μίλησε ο VP του τμήματος της IBM για τα ανοικτά πρότυπα) οπότε κανόνισα να φέρει κάποιος ένα αντίγραφο. Στην συνάντηση αυτή ξέχασα να ζητήσω το αντίγραφό …
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