A Man and his Penguin

Last night I started working on a DVD ripping plugin for Blacklight. It’s half-finished already. Funnily enough, the thing I haven’t done yet is implement the actual ripping - but getting a list of contents works perfectly, as does the previewing. Ripping is only a single command away; I want to implement a progress bar too, but I have an idea how to do that fairly easily.

Secondly, I’ve actually realised that my suggestion came true. My suggestion, as posted much earlier on this blog, was that by importing Chinese Linux-based computers and getting them into department stores, we could increase the Linux marketshare.

Everex is a Taiwan-based manufacturer, but Taiwan is virtually part of China anyway. They’ve developed their own Linux distribution called gOS, and a computer made to run it. The machines are being sold through Walmart in the US.

So, we looked to China for help with the Linux desktop

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