Make Java use the GTK look & feel on Linux

Java programs are more and more common these days. And why shouldn’t they be? It’s an easy to use language, it’s cross-platform (or it is supposed to be cross-platform) and has a huge standard class library. Apart from the fact that you need a VM to run them, which slows them down a little (but this is generally not noticable), and ties them to a propretairy vendor, there’s no real problem with Java programs…

Happy New Year!

I almost forgot this one . Happy new year!

So, what’s happened in the past year? Except for yet another 2 versions of Ubuntu, Steve Jobs getting ill and accidentially declared dead, me getting my Mac, and of course, how could I forget it, the invention of libsylph. Well, apart from that, not too much happened.

Well, I can only say one thing… I hope that this time 2009 is the real year of the Linux deskop.

Greetz,

- SeySayux

Free Software: not so ‘Free’ after all?

Every decent Linux user has heard of the Free Software Foundation. And they also know the FSF’s motto: ‘get us a girlfriend for Richard Stallman’. Oops, no, wrong one. ‘Make everything GPL.’ Yes, that is it. If we have to believe the FSF, the GPL is the perfect license, and everthing should be GPL’ed. But, this is an utopia. It will never happen that everything will be GPL’ed. Companies need the money, and they can’t make money with GPL software. In theory, they can, but in practice, everyone can redistribute the software for free. When you pay for Red Hat, SLES, or another paid Linux distro, you pay for the support, not for the OS itself.