linuxNUS

My favorite sections in the NUS Central Library is the TK5I05.885 and QA76.76 – all catering to the latest and old books on various Computer technologies. Last semester, I had to write an essay for the USP application on a topic that talks about my interest. And guess what, I wrote about  Open Source. I had to keep it non-technical as mainly Arts Professors would evaluate that. (Disclaimer : I did not get through USP ).
So I looked up some books regarding the topics, and for that I …

From HackerspaceSG Christmas party Facebook page
We are 1 month old, and we’re celebrating it by throwing ourselves a Christmas Party! This event is similar to our open house party!
We’ll be catering some halal food from around the area. If you can bring more food, that will be great! Just make sure it is halal, or if not, indicate it isn’t.
Drinks will be available, including Wine, and some alcohol. As usual, contributions to our pot of donations will be appreciated.
We’re also going to have a gift exchange in the form of …

These are the current fronts in which the software wars are being fought.
But it seems that a new warfront is being fought in the sphere of soft drinks with Bing Soda, Microsoft Soda and Ubuntu Cola

Four years ago to this day, 7 Oct 2005, linuxNUS was officially born. That is to day, of course, that we were officially recognised as a Student Special Interest Group. Of course, that doesn’t mean that we weren’t around before that. linuxNUS first came into existence on 6 Jul 2005, as our Yahoo! Group, which still serves as our primary mailing list till this day. Before 7 Oct though, we were a loosely organised, but nontheless motivate bunch, determined to bring the value and benefit of open source software to …

All right, I’ll cut right to the chase with this one, and won’t pull any punches. Let me be the first to say, It can be a pain trying to use only Free and open source software.
There. I’ve said it. Now I await the pitchforks.
Before you toss me into the vat of boiling oil for heresy, however, hear me out. We’ve all been in this fix before. We really, really, want to use only open source software, but there are just so many things that stand in our way.  That …

From our mailing list archive:
The Free and Open Source Alliance (FOSA.sg) would like to invite you  to take part in Software Freedom Day Singapore 2009. We have a number of events lined up for you next month on September 18 and 19 at the Singapore Management University, Bras Basah and the National Library Building, Bugis, and we hope you’ll be able to join in.
We’ll have events all day on both days. On Friday (September 18),  we’ll be organizing a series of talks at the NLB, providing an overview of setting up and using free …