Monthly Archives: June 2009

GNOME Do 0.8.2 Released

GNOME Do 0.8.2 was just released! Peng has a great post describing what’s new. Get the application source here and the plugins source here.

Five straightforward steps to vanquish Mono

Recently, the noisy debate over whether Mono poses a real threat to Linux has gotten even noisier. I’m not a lawyer so I’m not going to comment on matters I don’t fully understand, but I want to offer a constructive suggestion. No number of blog posts or vitriolic Reddit comments can by themselves generate a [...]

(A tentative list of) One Hundred Paper Cuts

Here is a tentative list of 100 paper cuts for Karmic, divided into 10 weekly milestones of 10 paper cuts each (some milestones contain an additional Kubuntu paper cut):

https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/karmic

Many of these paper cuts call for trivial patches, requiring little design consideration or user testing. Some of the paper cuts would benefit from the involvement of [...]

Calling All Paper Cutters

One Hundred Paper Cuts is off to a great start. After my last post, many people began adding existing bugs to the project, and filing new bugs as paper cuts. Now we have hundreds of bugs filed, and we will probably have hundreds more by the end of the week, but many of the bugs [...]