"I spend most of my day working on or near a computer: writing, replying to e-mail, making phone calls, and so on. [...] I use Emacs to keep track of what I need to do, because it makes planning my day so much easier..."

"...The kind birds from your trusty tech collective have hatched a new organization! We call it Riseup Labs. [...] Riseup Labs is actively developing social networking software that is geared specifically to the needs of network organizing and democratic collaboration. We are also planning to make riseup.net nearly impossible to shut down, provide new services, and greatly enhance your security and privacy..."

"Search Wikia *will* launch before 2008!!" via http://searchwikia.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/search-wikia-will-launch-bef...

In my opinion, large businesses are too tied to a big system based in Windows to switch to Linux, but creative professionals and small businesses have much less of a tie to any particular operating system and if there were applications that did what they need to Linux, they would switch.

In this post, I wanted to hit on the basics of working with RPM's in Linux (RPM stands for the Redhat Package Management system - basically, they're the software packages that make up your system). In later posts we'll go into some neat tricks... But for now, we'll stick with the basics.

Back in March of 2006, I interviewed Alan Cote, the Supervisor of Public Records in the Public Records Division of the Massachusetts Secretary's office. Alan had testified back in October of 2005 in the hearing where Peter Quinn had been called on the carpet by Senator Marc Pacheco, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight.

Yesterday afternoon, Red Hat, Inc. announced that James Whitehurst would be taking over for Matthew Szulik as chief executive. This is important open source news because Red Hat is by far the largest company practicing open source as its primary business. (Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat executive.)