Posts for category: GNU/Linux

* September the 19th | 11hs.
* Planeta X, Montevideo 2348
* Free (as in freedom and as in beer) access

Celebrating the 6th Software Freedom Day (SFD [1]), The Free Software User Group Rosario (LUGRo) [2] and PlanetaX [3] have organized several activities for this Saturday 19th of September, starting at 11 am. The event will take place at Montevideo 2348 in PlanetX's space.

There are going to be several talks, workshops and at the afternoon the LUGRo will start it's 12° Install Fest, pointed to the people interested to try Free Software in their computers.

At 19hs a music show ...

This saturday 19th is the Software Freedom Day which is a worldwide event aimed to celebrate the public benefit of the use of Free Software.

The past year 500 teams have registered to celebrate in their respective cities, and this year (as always) the GNU/Linux User Group Rosario (LUGRo) will take charge of the event in my city.

This time the SFD of Rosario will be done at PlanetaX (Montevideo 2348) starting at 11 am. The schedule is not yet defined but my talk about Python (introduction) is confirmed :).

If you are around Rosario (Santa Fe, Argetina), I invite ...

I'm a happy owner of a Sansa e280 mp3 player, this player is able to run the amazing Rockbox firmware of whom I will talk in another post sometime.

The thing is that since Rockbox 3.3 the USB stack for Sansa players is supported and now the player doesn't need to restart with the original firmware to mount the player on your filesystem. However this was not working for me, I was forced to boot the original firmware and then plug the usb cable to be able to change my song collection.

Fortunately I found the solution ...