Blog Archive March 2007

Monthly Archives: March 2007

What you won't see…

By Rich Johnson on Published: March 11, 2007 at 11:49 pm

…on a Microsoft product! This is the most security I have seen from Microsoft in a long time, and it is on a $5 check.

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Feisty almost ready!

By Rich Johnson on Published: March 11, 2007 at 4:45 pm

Wow, talk about a long development cycle. Well at least it felt long coming out of the Edgy cycle. Kubuntu docs are looking good, finished up changing them from review to complete, created the .pot translation files, reuploaded to SVN, and created a new package for Feisty. As soon as Jonathan Riddell is back at […]

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Free Software Community

By Rich Johnson on Published: March 4, 2007 at 4:34 pm

People always ask how I got involved with Free Software and of course lately, Ubuntu. I started messing with Linux around 1993 or 1994 and back then it wasn’t all that easy to find a single starting point on getting involved. I was a coder back then, but I didn’t feel like I was a […]

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Who is Rich Johnson?

My name is Rich Johnson. I am a professional developer, as well as an open source enthusiast, advocate, and author. I spend any free time I can get cycling.

Back in 1994 I was introduced to the world of open source software by installing Linux on a PC I had purchased from the Navy Exchange. At that time I had no idea what I was going up against, but never once did I let myself get frustrated, as Windows had already done that to me. Since then, I have completely immersed myself into the open source world and have been an active contributor.