Archive for category Linux
Linux From Scratch: End of an Experiment
After almost exactly 4 months of exclusively running Linux From Scratch on my laptop, I finally consider the experiment done. Here’s a retrospective look at what it was like for me. Why are you doing this!? I like trying out different distros. I usually keep one distro on my desktop and “play around” on my laptop. [...]
OMG! Ignorant!
Posted by Jason in Linux, Open Source on August 9, 2010
So, Benjamin Humphrey of OMG! Ubuntu! and Ubuntu Manual team lead has a blog post he considers so brilliant he made sure it went out twice: “Dude, you’re a 35 year old with a neck beard“. Mr. Humphrey’s particular post is so chock-full of ignorance that it deserves a proper dissection. Let’s begin! [Edited to [...]
Team Apologista Springs into Action!
This is just a funny bit, nothing serious. So, Miguel de Icaza posts that the Ubuntu StackOverflow should really be a Linux StackOverflow and watch Team Apologista rally! A funny (and quickly downvoted comment): This looks like a useful idea. But why is Miguel so interested in it? What does it have to do with Microsoft? Heh. [...]
Ranking Google
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Open Source on August 6, 2010
Adam Williamson has a good series of “controversial crap” over on his blog, mainly discussing things related to the recent Red Hat/Canonical kerfuffle (but there are some other interesting bits as well). In his clarification post, this bit caught my attention: The reason I don’t complain much about Microsoft or Apple or Google is that I pretty [...]
Mono Apologists on Wikipedia
Ran across another funny example of Team Apologista activity on Wikipedia today. Checking them logs For a long time, I would get a bit of traffic now and again from the Wikipedia page on Moonlight, as someone had placed my exceedingly brilliant analysis of 10 Problems with the New Moonlight Covenant. Today I was looking [...]
Netrunner Blacklight Released!
Huzzah! So, the official (and huge) ISO for the second release of Netrunner is up, out and available right now! (torrent) Here’s the distrowatch announcement. Moving to KDE The biggest change in this version is moving to KDE for the desktop. Something important to understand about that: when I say “KDE for the desktop”, that doesn’t [...]
RMS on .NET and Mono
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Novell, Patent System on July 15, 2010
Glyn Moody has up a short email interview with RMS on the topic of .NET and Mono (and dotGNU). Here is my favorite bit from RMS: RMS: You shouldn’t write software to use .NET. No exceptions. The basic point is that Microsoft has patents over features in .NET, and its patent promise regarding free software [...]
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