Last night, I released katapult 0.3.1.4, which is mainly a bugfix release, but well, It’s a release!
We now have katapult working with amarok >=1.4.2 (and with < 1.4.2 still too!)
It was annoying, however, when my ISP decided to drop my connection for half an hour in the middle of pushing the files out to sourceforge.
See The Katapult website for more details.
Packages will be available soon for feisty and sid
First of all, before I start writing, I need to state the following.
This blog is published on Novell affiliated website(s) This post does in no way represent the view of Novell/Microsoft or any of their employees, and is only my own personal opinion on this subject.
For those of you who haven’t already read, Novell and Microsoft have entered into 3 agreements of Collaboration between the companies. See here for more info
The way I see it is yes, this is a good thing in general for Linux. With Microsoft actively participating in the collaboration between open source and Windows, it can only be a good thing, finally, we will be able to integrate Windows and Linux clients seamlessly, they’ll work together, and everything will be groovy.
For SUSE Enterprise customers.
Yes, this will bring technical advances and help with the proliferation of Linux, undoubtedly, but - the way the Press Release and FAQ are written, it seems to me that Novell and Microsoft will be working hand in hand to exclude anyone outside their customer bases from using anything that will come from this collaboration.
Novell, up to this point to me have seemed to make huge steps into the Open Source Market, making a lot of contributions in lots of projects, but with this announcement, it now seems that they just want themselves to benefit, not the rest of the FLOSS community. Do we really want Novell to become the “Microsoft” of Linux? Monopolising on the things that are going to get the paying customers to use their Products? I remember a quote from an interview with Novell’s Greg Mancusi-Ungaro in LXF which was this
Well, if we ever woke up one day and said ‘Wow, Novell is the Microsoft of Linux’ or ‘Red Hat is the Microsoft of Linux’, then the Linux movement would be over.
I totally agree, but to me, it looks like this is a step in that direction for Novell.
By the way, feel free to flame me^W^Wcomment, I’d love to hear other people’s opinions on this
I just discovered a neat little app called “Pandora”
This app loads in a web browser and asks you for an artist name or a song title - and then goes and finds different music for you through the “Music Genome Project”
It’s a very cool app - and free to use 
It’s already introduced me to 2 bands who I want to go out and buy the albums of