PeterSlashdot is reporting that popular free software accounting package SQL-Ledger recently secretly changed their licence from the GPL to the SQL-Ledger Open Source Licence. The project leader did this without notifying anyone on the project.
Users of the popular accounting package SQL-Ledger were being kept in the dark about a recent license change. Two weeks ago a new version of the software was released but along with it came …
PeterToday, I'm going to introduce the concept of mount points. Mount points are, in essence, folders in which external filesystems are mounted (their contents are dropped into that folder). We'll be going into that in a bit more detail in just a second. First of all, the obligatory Wikipedia definition:
A mount point is a term used to describe where the computer puts the files in a file system …
Peter
The CentOS project have announced that CentOS 5, the next major version of the distribution has been released.
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5 for
the i386 and x86_64 Architectures.CentOS-5 is based on the upstream release [Red Hat Enterprise] 5, and includes packages from
all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have
been combined into one, to make it easier for end …
Peter
It has been announced on the Ubuntu development announcement mailing list that the next version of Ubuntu after the release currently in development, Feisty Fawn, will be called Gutsy Gibbon (version 7.10).
Also announced in that post is the fact that there will be a new variant of Ubuntu which will be composed of completely free software (with no proprietary drivers at all). Apparently, this effort is being assisted by …