http://blog.printf.net/articles/2007/07/30/a-nice-free-software-experience en-us 40 <p><a href="http://blog.alphascorpii.net/english/debian/little-comfort.html">Meike</a> asks us for our nice experiences with Free Software developers. Here's one of mine.</p> <p>I needed to find a new RSS reader. I have a somewhat lengthy subway commute to <a href="http://laptop.org">work</a> each day, and I like listening to podcasts or reading PDFs on the OLPC laptop. I also have a pretty busy RSS feed list, and thought it'd be nice to merge my daily RSS read with my daily commute. The RSS reader I was using (<a href="http://sage.mozdev.org/">Sage</a>, a Firefox plugin) doesn't allow that, though, since there's no way to have it download all new feeds and present them on a single static HTML page for offline reading.</p> <p>Google Reader was an obvious choice, but I try to use web services that run on Free Software when I can. Google brought me to <a href="http://gobblerss.pommepause.com/">GobbleRSS</a>, which is a Google Reader clone with sync capabilities.</p> <p>I tried installing it on my Xen host, which runs Debian/sarge. It didn't work; I got a PHP syntax error. I sent mail to the maintainer, <a href="http://www.pommepause.com/online.html">Guillaume Boudreau</a>, and went to bed. I had a reply waiting when I woke up, telling me that he'd just committed what he thought was a fix to my problem. Over the next seven hours, we sent twelve e-mails between us, with him (and occasionally me) proposing fixes. It turned out that he was using PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1, and I was using PHP 4 and MySQL 4.0. By the end of the day, he had full support for the older versions of each committed.</p> <p>Thanks, Guillaume! Here's a photo of what my daily commute looks like now:</p> <div align="center"> <img src="http://chris.printf.net/gobblerss.jpg"></img> </div> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:41:00 +0100 urn:uuid:056c0db9-f831-49c1-88ee-22e378d6382a Chris Ball http://blog.printf.net/articles/2007/07/30/a-nice-free-software-experience olpc <p>quiero descrgar el sistema operatibo de la xo-1 este es mi coreo electronico <a href="mailto:alexselgrande_12@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow">alexselgrande_12@hotmail.com</a></p> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:48:04 +0100 urn:uuid:2efa65ba-c906-416d-b8ab-02b874e1c8ef http://blog.printf.net/articles/2007/07/30/a-nice-free-software-experience#comment-55615 <p>My pleasure Chris! Happy to see you can now read your feeds during your daily commute, like me! :)</p> Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:43:25 +0000 urn:uuid:d601c558-68f0-4f67-88b4-4c78c1829827 http://blog.printf.net/articles/2007/07/30/a-nice-free-software-experience#comment-37243 <p>God I want that laptop!</p> <p>Surprised you get to read anything surely you get people commenting or looking over your shoulder!</p> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:07:11 +0100 urn:uuid:2a40a517-c33f-44b7-9770-2d6e7cbd1f24 http://blog.printf.net/articles/2007/07/30/a-nice-free-software-experience#comment-37148