I have just recently moved my home computer's Linux distribution from Debian to Gentoo. While I was in my switching process I had a revelatory observation. I will call it the inverse speed law . It goes like this:
Read more »My Love/Hate Relationship
Oh, Gentoo, how I really find myself hating you sometimes. Once upon a time, Gentoo Linux was a thriving community distro. These days, I've been finding it harder and harder to find solid answers.
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Being the Ubuntu Guy
I’ve just got back from Harvard University Extension School where I was a guest speaker for a systems administration class. I was there to talk about Gnu/Linux and Ubuntu, about the stack of software and each project and so on.
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Crontab Basics
Why spend your time running repetitive scripts manually? With Cron Tabs, you can set it and forget it.
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Why Africa gets the IBM-Ubuntu bundle and you do not
Irregular readers of this space may be wondering why IBM and Ubuntu are partnering on a Linux bundle for Africa but not here.
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is the FSF an extremist organisation?
The FSF believes that everyone should use the term GNU/Linux rather than just Linux and use Free Software not open source. What im wondering is the FSF an extremist organisation that no one takes entirely seriously?
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I've tested five hot netbook Linux distros on two Eee PCs so you don't have to.
Seeing how I spent an entire afternoon distro-hopping recently the least I can is share my results with you...
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Worldwide Campaign: "My University offers me my Microsoft Windows ® License"
« Many universities and engineering schools provide their students with a free Microsoft Windows ® license through a partner program with Microsoft. Yet, when students buy a new computer, they also pay for another (OEM) Microsoft Windows ® license included in the computer price.
Read more »HP launches Linux-fiddling support group
Hewlett-Packard is making an effort to support non-commercial Linux distributions on its servers and other vendors' business hardware. But you wouldn't know it from the black hole of fanfare regarding its new collaborative portal.
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Sun and MySQL Surprises at Oracle OpenWorld?
Oracle OpenWorld -- a major event for Oracle partners and customers -- kicks off October 11 in San Francisco. Sun Microsystems will be in the house. So will Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. And if you look hard enough, there will even be some MySQL content at the event. Here’s the scoop.
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Firefox tidies up with Office 2007's Ribbon
Mozilla has announced that it plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up the cluttered browser.
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The Linux Desktop is More Than Ready
The Linux desktop is highly-polished and functional, but still isn't making a dent in the mainstream. Matt Hartley looks at some of the roadblocks keeping desktop Linux in a small niche.
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Free and Open Source Software, dogmatism and the real world.
One of the best things that ever happened to the world of computing was the advent of Free and Open Source software. However, there does not seem, at least from where I stand, to be any proper definition of who FOSS defines as its target audience.
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Add new hard disk to your Linux machine
If you want to add more storage to your machine by adding a new hard drive,and you have already a linux system installed in the first hard drive, then just follow this tutorial.
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Branching Out With Salix OS
SMALL but perfectly formed... no, not me, this new Linux distribution I've been playing around with.
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