Quite often in relationships there are two seemingly very different people who, for some reason, become a couple. To outside eyes they appear to be completely incompatible with each other. These people marry and have a child. This child is a combination of characteristics of these two people.
Read more »What if Linux and windows marry?
A geek ranch in Nicaragua?
Let's call that site the Geek Ranch. (When I say "let's" I mean us, not everyone. While its primary focus is to appeal to geeks, we will have to call it something else for general marketing.) As far as a site, it is about 265 acres of land in the mountains of the Tisey Preserve near Estelí, Nicaragua.
While there is a lot more to it than just being for geeks, here is the geek angle. The property will have "geek cabinas" scattered around a pine forest within the property. If you want to escape from the rat race for a while--a month, six months, whatever--you will be able to inexpensively rent a private cabina. It will come with Internet connectivity, maid service and all your meals. In other words, no routine responsibilities.
Read more »Why you should switch to OpenSuse
I have been using Linux for the past 7 years and I have tried many distributions. About, 6 months back I decided to have a permanent copy of one more operating system in my laptop – OpenSuse. And, now I can say that OpenSuse is the best operating system I every used.
Read more »One Laptop per Child Doesn't Change the World
Does anyone but me see the OLPC XO-1 as an insulting "let them eat cake" sort of message to the world's poor?
Read more »Geek Of The Week: Richard Stallman
Many of you are probably asking… who is Richard Stallman? In a nutshell, he is the reason we have freeware today. He is largely responsible for the popularity of the Linux operating system (including Linux-based derivatives like Android), and the open source community.
Read more »Linux infection proves Windows malware monopoly is over
A story from ZDNET seems to forecast a generalization of malwares on Linux. They argue that official repositories could be unreliable and that there are no anti-virus software against that on linux
Read more »Does Linux Offer Too Much Choice?
Linux doesn't offer too much choice, "but it may not organize its choices well enough," says Slashdot blogger David Masover. The ideal situation "is to provide sane defaults so that people aren't forced to make choices --
Read more »Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
...some people, particularly our Free Software leaders, are so mired in their hatred of Microsoft and proprietary systems that they will use only Free and Open Source software for the sake of ideological reasons alone.
Read more »SoftMaker Office 2008 focuses on compatibility with Microsoft Office
The free and open source office suite OpenOffice.org might be a killer app for many, but its inability to properly display documents created in the proprietary Microsoft Office formats hinders its widespread acceptance in multi-OS business environments with many legacy .doc and .xls files.
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Read more »Free Software We're Most Thankful For
Dear free software developers: Before we American nerds sit down to our turkey and mashed potatoes today, know that your creations are at the top of the list of things we're most thankful for.
Read more »Mark Shuttleworth's Community Has No Women
But it has a number of fatal flaws. Mr. Shuttleworth didn't make just a couple of careless comments; the recurring theme all through his talk was "Guys are the cool techies, girls are not." He drew a clear line between 'us' and 'them', with 'us' being men and 'them' being women.
Read more »The real value of Linux
There will never be a "Year of the Linux desktop", but I don't think that is actually all that important. Here's why.
Read more »BoycottNovell: Great Moments in Flagrant Disregard of the Truth, part 1
In June 2008, Roy Schestowitz got himself in a twist over the idea—gleaned from a comment coming from someone called "microsoft-spy", and no other evidence—that Ubuntu Netbook Remix would be including codecs purchased, by Canonical, from Microsoft.
Read more »Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad
Ubuntu’s new Karmic Koala 9.10 release has been highly anticipated as the greatest release ever. In truth, it falls flat on its face in a time when Linux really needed to shine.
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