A Wicket Diary

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released a new Linux distribution called: gNewSense.

Apart from the question of whether the world is ready for yet another linux distribution (which outnumbers the total of web frameworks, all languages combined) I find the choice of name pretty strange. With some fantasy you could speak it like: “Gnu-sense”, but that can be quickly misunderstood for “Nuisance”.

In that respect, the name is chosen correctly: with all proprietary code removed from the distribution, the distribution can only be regarded by the casual (non-Free software ideologist) as a nuisance. I applaud the effort of the FSF for making a completely free operating system though, and I wish them well.

王磊 (Wang Lei) has his target audience right: 1 billion Chinese waiting to start working with Wicket can’t be a bad thing for a book, even though the book is free.

王磊 has written a book concerning Wicket in Chinese in 6 weeks and it reads remarkably well when put through the Babelfish translator.

I’m thrilled to see such support for the Wicket framework and I hope our community will grow even further in the far east.

If you can’t see the name of Wang Lei correct, it is because you don’t have the Chinese font installed (get a mac!, it works out of the box).