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 [...]
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 [...]
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