Two days ago, on Friday, it was a final day of Ubuntu Developer Summit – O. It was held in Budapest, Hungary. Luckily for me, Budapest is less than four hours drive away and I decided to register and visit. Primarily I wanted to participate in a few sessions about desktop and community related stuff.
Standardization. This is something that every single Linux distribution is lacking. There are no real standards when it comes to UI’s, API’s and file locations. Linux Standard Base is an attempt to fix a small part of these problems. In general, it failed, for more than one reason. Partly because of the RPM dependency and partly because it covers only a small subset of things that need standardization. Even today, after twenty years of Linux, we have very few standards on how to write applications. They are more or less just guidelines. If you decide to write KDE application things are pretty much clear, but not always. The same goes for Gnome 2 or Gnome 3. The main problem lies in the above mentioned ‘pretty much’. When it comes to a single distribution, you are in trouble. With Ubuntu, you’re really in trouble.
Latest addition to my home is a robotic lawnmower. Mowing the lawn was something that I didn’t do often enough. Sporadic mowing with a loud gasoline powered lawnmower and lots of cut grass that I had no idea where to put it.
Husqvarna had a solution to this for a few years now. The decision was made. Newly released Automower 305, which covers up to 500 square meters of lawn is currently sitting in my back yard waiting for charging cycle to complete. Then it’s mowing time again. Over and over and over again, until I tell it to stop.
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Volley Brawl is a silly, but fun, game that will help you kill your time while you are compiling a new version of vanilla kernel or while you are waiting for some download to finish. If there is something missing in Linux then games are one of the first things on the list. Right behind a good graphics card driver and a working desktop environment, right? Let’s face it, games on Linux mostly suck. There are NO big titles available for Linux. There are some that used to be sort of big, but who will play ten year old games?
Ubuntu Global Jam in Slovenia was focused on translations. With people coming and going there were 15 people who attended. We had 13 active translators, they translated and checked almost 4000 strings.
Event was held at Cyberpipe in Ljubljana, our local hacker’s space and gathering venue. We started early in the morning at 9am with initial gathering and a crash courss on how to translate. There were three translation sessions planed before lunch but it turned out that nobody was hungry at that time. Of course snacks were plentiful and drinks were also available, there was no immediate danger of starvation and we ended up going out for lunch instead of ordering.
