The GNOME Foundation’s long search for a new executive director has finally come to an end: Neil McGovern has taken the job. ” McGovern is an experienced leader in Free Software projects and is best known for his role as Debian Project Leader from 2014-15.
Category: GNOME
Sumana Harihareswara’s keynote will close LibrePlanet 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA – Wednesday, January 25, 2017 – The Free Software Foundation announced today that Sumana Harihareswara will be a keynote speaker at LibrePlanet, the annual free software conference, on Sunday, March 26th, 2017. The annual free software conference will close on the evening of March 26th with Harihareswara discussing her experiences within free software and the things she has learned over the years, in a talk tentatively titled “Lessons, Myths, and Lenses: What I Wish I’d Known in 1998.”
Seahorse
Currently it supports PGP keys and SSH keys. Its goal is to provide an easy to use Key Management Tool, along with an easy to use interface for encryption operations.
Clearlooks
Clearlooks has been part of gtk-engines for a while now, and is no longer distributed as a seperate release. Clearlooks is a GTK+ 2.x engine written in C that transforms your GNOME/XFCE desktop into a modern looking environment. It is fast and easy on the eyes.
Free Software Directory:IceCat extensions
Package note=Nautipolis for Firefox: a blend of retro, nautical, Areo and Gnome. Designed for daily use, with consistent layout, buttons, widgets, with support for many extensions.
Bye bye, 2016: The Linux, Chromebook, and open-source stories of the year
In many ways, I can’t wait to kiss 2016 goodbye. It’s been full of bad news, including the passing of greats like Muhamed Ali, David Bowie, and John Glen.