Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Trying Banshee (2007)

Jono posted about how he had started using Banshee. I generally tend to use Amarok, but it’s a KDE application and not quite as integrated with GNOME as I’d like.Banshee seems good. This is on a machine with 50 songs. I wonder how it’ll fair on my iMac with a few thousand songs?

Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases (2007)

More good news – The Samba project have adopted GPLv3 as the license for future releases of Samba. This move strengthens the position of the project and will protect the freedoms it offers for many years to come.I’m never sure how much Samba I use – I don’t talk to Windows boxes, but then I do occasionally talk to odd printers, and Macintoshes and Samba probably ‘just works’ under there, somewhere. I met Jeremy Allison at LinuxWorld London last year and it was great to meet someone so passiona