Hi friends from Vietnam Linux User Group, I am Pockey Lam from Beijing LUG in China, Beijing LUG is co-organizing the first GNOME.Asia Summit with GNOME Foundation this year in Beijing. Date: Oct 18 and 19 (whole day event) Location: Beijing, China If any of your member is interested in joining the event, please go to www.gnome.asia to register! The registration is … [Read more...] about GNOME.Asia Summit – Beijing, China
Archives for 2008
Current FPT Bandwidth Speeds
I decided to test my bandwidth speeds with both Speakeasy and Speedtest. I am surprised at the speeds right now: Speakeasy (Seattle server): 2402 kbps Download Speed 516 kpbs Upload Speed Speedtest (Singapore Server): 2558 kbps Download Speed 319 kbps Upload Speed How long this will last? Speeds have been improving in Vietnam. I actually expect things to … [Read more...] about Current FPT Bandwidth Speeds
Just switched to the Paludis package manager
I just converted from Portage to Paludis about 30 minutes ago on my Gentoo system. Paludis is an alternative package manager for the very buggy Portage maintained by Gentoo. This new package manager is supposed to make it easier to add new packages. In past, Gentoo had a reputation for being bleeding edge. You could install the latest packages straight from Portage even … [Read more...] about Just switched to the Paludis package manager
Browser Wars Update – Google Chrome back up
Just checked the stats for the browser usage of the last 500 visitors. Firefox still leads followed by a slipping Internet Explorer. Chrome made a comeback and I think it is here to stay. That number should climb among Linux users in the future. Current browser usages followed by last week's usage: 1. Mozilla Firefox - 50.6% (53.6%) 2. Internet Explorer - 34.8 … [Read more...] about Browser Wars Update – Google Chrome back up
FPT Linux Mirror in Vietnam
Thanks to pclouds for sharing this link with me. I heard rumors about it but finally there is a FPT-sponsored Linux mirror in Vietnam. That is great news!!! Even better, the mirror is FAST! I am installing Django as we speak. Django was downloading at 635K/s, an amazing speed for Vietnam. The fastest I ever downloaded for Gentoo packages was around 490K/s with Viettel … [Read more...] about FPT Linux Mirror in Vietnam