More Anti-Free Software Spin
Posted by Jason in Free Software on June 18, 2010
Sad to see the same old retarded anti-FSF messaging, but at least I can point to Rob Myers’ nice little rebuttal, “Shooting the Messenger“. First off, it’s amusing to watch the anti-FSF crowd accuse the FSF of negativity while simultaneously throwing around oh-so-positive messaging like calling people “Stallmanists” or saying the “FAF is a sham on English [...]
Ubuntu Making Moves
Posted by Jason in Free Software on June 14, 2010
Perhaps it’s just the sources I have, but it seems even the smallest decision from Ubuntu swamps Linux news. Most of the time this is a wash, but sometimes there is an interesting bit or two. Often it’s something I don’t agree with — which if I then comment about I am taken to task by [...]
Knowing what you like
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux on June 8, 2010
If you know what you like – and what you like happens to be reading jackassed misinformed personal attacks , then the GNOME Foundation mailing list seldom disappoints. Personally, I love how someone – purely on incorrect speculation - can construct a personal attack, a sweeping generalized attack on the larger community, lay blame for corporate sponsor pull-out and [...]
Upstart woes
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on June 3, 2010
Sigh. Has anyone implemented a pure Upstart system? I’ve spent several days now trying to do so, and with little success. First, let me say, I really like the idea of Upstart. I dig the concept of an event-based init system. I dig the idea of a faster boot. That, and I’m motivated to try a [...]
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 [...]
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