Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Congratulations to anyone who read my post about Banshee as default media player in Ubuntu in the past week. You’ve formed part of an interesting social experiment – an analysis into the habits of people who surf the internest, and specifically the kind of people who visit a page with a dry topic like media [...]

Fitting the kitchen sink onto a CD

Ubuntu’s main installation method comes on a single bootable CD. By today’s standards, a CD is a rather confined space – as a result, every last megabyte is considered precious. A single stray megabyte could push the CD over the limit, and make it worthless – and a few saved megabytes could help make the [...]

Desperately Seeking Mediocrity

One thing I’ve noticed out there in the big wide Internet is the number of people who desperately want GNU/Linux to suck. These are not, as you’d imagine, Windows or Mac OS fanatics who want to see the competition fail – in fact, quite the opposite. These are the folks who cling to GNU/Linux not [...]

Mass infection vector

As part of the great plans for Monobuntu, Canonical Ltd. are sponsoring my attendance at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona in May. This will give me a chance to discuss the Desktop team’s needs and wants for Mono, bounce suggestions around for how to further shrink the installation footprint, and fling spitballs at the [...]