I am hounded, week in and week out, including three comments on DistroWatch this week, about my "refusal" to run Puppy Linux and my "crazy review". It never stops, it continues in e-mail and on every Linux forum where I write. Why are the Puppy Linux community members so obsessed with me? Here is the only reason I can think of...
Read more »Some People Don't Know When To Leave Well Enough Alone
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linux love, gentoo love!
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recently i updated my gentoo box. the computer is a c2c processor with a fast nvidia graphics card. but what is cool about that “you” wonder?
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A Northwest Nobel option? (Linus for the Nobel Peace prize)
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It would be fitting to honor that international effort by giving a Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds, perhaps in 2011 on the 20th anniversary of the August 1991 Linux announcement, or in 2012 on the 50th anniversary of Pauling's award.
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The Problem With The Linux Community
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...First, I must compliment the openSUSE developers. I've had great correspondence from Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier and Will Thompson, a developer in the KDE team in Nuremberg, which were truly first rate. These are Linux professionals who clearly are much more interested in solving problems and putting out a quality product than anything else.
Read more »Who Deserves Free Ubuntu CDs More?
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A few weeks ago, Canonical announced that the ShipIt program, which provides Ubuntu CDs for free, would be scaled back in order to cut costs. Fair enough, but is the new strategy - which centers around making free CDs available only to people already active in the Ubuntu community - in line with the principles that underpin the Ubuntu project? Here are some thoughts.
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Interview- Fedora Mini maintainer Peter Robinson
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By now, you've probably heard that Fedora 12 came out this morning, with a "Moblin Desktop Environment" option. In this interview, Fedora Mini Maintainer Peter Robinson discusses F12's Moblin option today, and what lies ahead for Moblin technology within Fedora.
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The Future of Linux is Google
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I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it's looking much more like Google--not Canonical--will be the first Linux vendor to truly challenge Microsoft.
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Linux's Growing Pains
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The last two releases of Ubuntu, 9.04 and 9.10 seem to generate a lot of complaints of bugs. The good news is that this is all very natural, and even to be expected given the deep changes that are being made to the stack. Bugs cannot be fixed until they are found, and they cannot be found until users are running the code.
Read more »Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2010 dates confirmed
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Next year's US Red Hat Summit 2010 will take place in conjunction with JBoss World in Boston, Massachusetts from the 22nd to the 25th of June, 2010. While Red Hat acquired JBoss in April of 2006, the two events have only been linked since 2009. The JBoss World site has yet to be updated to reflect the 2010 event.
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Mandriva Linux Community Words: Buchan Milne
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For this second interview we are going to South Africa to meet Buchan Milne.
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My life with Linux: the daily ups and downs of switching to open source
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Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.
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Linux: Making Your Desktop Calm
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Have you ever noticed that the more you tweak your desktop theme, the more it drives you crazy? I've always sought after the perfect wallpaper. However, the cooler the wallpaper is, the more it drives me crazy.
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CrunchPad tablet is alive, well, and under $400
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Last week the folks at The Business Insider started predicting that Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad tablet was dead. Apparently the reports of the CrunchPad’s death are a bit premature.
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Just another day at Boycottnovell
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An analysis and visualization of 24 hours (roughly) worth of activity flowing forth from the proprietor of boycottnovell.com. Items are listed in reverse (newer to older) chronological order as they appear in feeds, Google Groups, etc.
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Promoting FOSS with Analogies: Ford vs BK
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Out of the many analogies I have used over the years, the Ford vs BK one is likely the best I have ever encountered. But what is the Ford vs BK analogy and how does it help me promote FOSS?
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