Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Friday 30 June 2006

Switcher

After Mark Pilgrim (2) and Tim Bray, now Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing fame decides to switch away from Apple to GNU/Linux. The argument is against the DRM that Apple pushes and the fact that they close data file format.

Welcome guys and Good luck !

Friday 9 June 2006

Another Linux unfriendly video card vendor

According to Martin, Matrox P series video card are not properly supported and even more ignored by the support staff when it comes to Linux support, despite it being advertised on the box. Looks like we are sort of back to 1996 when Matrox was refusing to provide the spec for XFree86 to write proper MGA/Millenium drivers.

Too bad Matrox, you would be able to gain back some market share with the Linux folks by just making the right decision instead of being worse than your competitors.