Archive for May, 2010
Novell Sells: But Who’s Buying?
With apologies to Dave Mustaine. Right, so, Novell is up for sale and there’s a couple dozen potential buyers. First, let me tell you what is not going to happen: Microsoft is not going to buy Novell. Novell has served their purpose to Microsoft, which is basically acting as a lap-dog and providing Microsoft with good [...]
BTRFS and Ubuntu
I see Sam Varghese has cast a critical eye on talk about btrfs in the upcoming version of Ubuntu. I’m quite interested in this because I’m running btrfs on all my non-boot (and non-swap) partitions on my shiny new LFS-based laptop which is much cooler than all my friend’s laptops (who didn’t spend 3 weeks [...]
I own you!
Posted by Jason in Stuff I've Learned on May 24, 2010
While I’m still knee-deep in setting up my new laptop via Linux From Scratch, let me take a breather to share something I learned which you may or may not already know: Say you have a directory that you know you own (sandbox). Say you try to ls (or cd or otherwise interact) with the [...]
Linux From Scratch
Wondering why I haven’t been blogging too much last week and this? Read the title.
The Week Link – 10.05.15
Another view of Game Piracy Wolfire Games is on top of thinking about how a game house should act and re-act. Users want a Linux port of uTorrent? uTorrent is the king of Windows clients, sure. But, for my money (!) Deluge and qBittorrent are two alternatives that are just as good. Anyone still using [...]
F-Spot Out of Ubuntu
Posted by Jason in Free Software on May 14, 2010
Fantastic news! I first caught wind of this from I’Been to Ubuntu: F-Spot has been voted off the island by developers at UDS this week. The Mono application will be replaced by Shotwell, written in Vala. Since the only other Mono application I see in the default install is Tomboy, would it make sense to conspire to kick [...]
Microsoft on Interoperability
From ChannelWeb Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division and one of the company’s foremost cloud proponents, also dismissed Google’s claims of Office-Docs interoperability. “It clearly shows their lack of maturity and lack of understanding for the business market,” Elop told The New York Times Wednesday. “Companies don’t want to mix their technology.” I [...]
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