I had the opportunity to attend the 25th anniversary festival of Indies Records last month. Indies Records, founded 25 years ago and later split to Indies Scope, Indies MG and Indies Happy Trails, has always been a great music label supporting Czech high quality alternative and non-commercial music. They did a lot of hard work…
GCompris is a great software collection and our children have been enjoying it a lot during the years. The project runs a crowd funding campaign now to make an improved graphics. I like the opportunity to support such a great project.
The Snowdrift project looks interesting. Its purpose is to help funding free works in a sustainable way and without commercial pressures. I don’t know whether it will work (who knows?) but it’s worth to try.
For several reasons, I decided to move my Web pages to WordPress. I tried to retain the most important content and URLs from the old pages. If there is something wrong or you miss something, please let me know. If you know some simple clean WordPress themes, I’d like to know too.
This year’s OpenAlt (formerly LinuxAlt) was a great event again. Thanks to all the volunteers, sponsors and attendees!
Real life makes a lot of things hard to achieve and I feel quite exhausted after last weeks. But there were also many good news last week: Someone finally escaped the danger of death and is back at home with good chances for complete recovery. My soul got another pardon. I should get the required…
OpenStreetMap celebrated its 10th birthday last month. It’s a great project with great achievements, like Wikimedia projects. It’s another success of user collaboration and freedom.
Android tablets are useful portable devices. Unfortunately Android makes them less useful than they could be. There are several problems with Android, one of them being lack of applications. While there are free Android applications for many common tasks, they are typically not suitable for serious work and many applications are completely missing, most notably…
Some interesting starting points: https://lwn.net/Articles/602521/ https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html
Enough is enough. I don’t like how the stock Android installation treats its users and I finally decided to replace it on my Google Nexus 10 with something else. The reasonable choices were CyanogenMod, AOKP and OmniROM. I decided to install AOKP. Installation instructions looked like installing an alternative ROM on Nexus is a completely…