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Launchpad Translations isn’t the right translation system for getgnulinux.org after all. At this moment, Launchpad does not support “fuzzy” entries. This is bad news, because this means that translations will disappear from Launchpad Translations each time the English texts are … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about adding a fourth GNU/Linux distribution to the list of recommended distributions on getgnulinux.org. One of the reasons for this is because the distributions currently recommended (Ubuntu, Fedora and gNewSense) all use the GNOME desktop environment by … Continue reading →

The out-dated screenshots on getgnulinux.org have been replaced by new ones. GGL.org now features screenshots of Ubuntu 10.10, Fedora 15, and gNewSense 2.3. I first installed all three distributions on the latest VirtualBox. It needed to be the latest VirtualBox … Continue reading →

The language files from the GLM svn repository have finally been imported into Launchpad Translations. You can see the progress of each language with the Translation overview on Launchpad (click on “View all languages”). The translation files had been in … Continue reading →

Olivier has just redirected getgnulinux.org to getgnulinux.no-ip.info. Now all visitors of getgnulinux.org will be automatically redirected to getgnulinux.no-ip.info. Olivier has also sent me the files from the public GNU/Linux Matters svn repository. It turns out that a lot of the work I’ve … Continue reading →

The new translation system has been successfully implemented. Anyone can now start using Launchpad Translations to help translate the “get GNU/Linux!” website. I’ve requested the language files in .po gettext format from Olivier Cleynen. Until he sends me the these … Continue reading →

The getgnulinux.org website was put for download as an archive containing static HTML pages. The HTML pages were automatically generated from source files and it would help if I had access to those source files, but unfortunately I don’t. Before … Continue reading →

As of 2010 GNU/Linux Matters have ceased activity. And with it, GetGNULinux.org has come to its end. “GNU/Linux Matters” was a small non-profit delivering effective, high quality advocacy for free software. Despite their best efforts they just haven’t been able … Continue reading →