Robert Schusters Blog

Looking carefully at the posts from GNU Classpath members you realize that a lot of them play an instrument. Years ago I took (acoustic) guitar lessons but did not continue this after moving.One thing that bothered me over the years is that when I heard a nice song and started ...

Last week was critical. Due to some problems with our Freifunk mesh network I was offline for some days. Well, not really offline. If I urgently needed Internet connection I had to take my girlfriend's laptop (mine is still unable to deal with ad-hoc mode), walk to the Traveplatz park ...

Yeah, its true. The OpenMoko gals & guys finally fixed manufacturing issues and the first free (as in Freedom) mobile phone hardware is produced as you read this sentence. Great isn't it? Just in time for this I finished the first bit of work to get PhoneME Advanced compiled in OpenEmbedded. ...

Like Roman I am very happy about where Wine is heading and welcome what I call the best Windows (implementation) ever. :-) I am wondering however how Wine will cope with the inherent disease that the proprietary software is suffering from: What I mean are API or even driver level ...

Today I am continuing my impressions of LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin. Besides Harald and Rob I met Marcus Brinkmann at the social event (= kind of aftershow party). When reading the name on his speaker badge it reminded me of something but I had no clue. We were already in a ...

Yeah, I am in a writing spree today. I just sent this to the Maemo mailing list. Basically I continue where I left of last year. Since comments are still not open for anyone at this site (Sorry, I cannot do something about this). Contact me via email (thebohemian _ at ...

LinuxTag in Berlin is over now and I think it was a great event. There is so much diverse and interesting stuff happening in the free software scene and the conference did a very good job at showing this clearly. This year I was speaker (slides) as well as helper for ...