Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Anti-linux ads on Linux.com

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

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Forbes: Open source the wiki of computer code

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

This is so wrong that I have to blog about it… in this month’s Forbes magazine they have this description of Open Source in their “Network Breakthrough Innovations” section:
1991 Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds kicks off open-source movement, a sort of wiki of computer code, with a plea for contributions to Linux operating system.
That’s pretty funny… […]

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Michael Robertson offers to port iTunes to Linux

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I’ve always liked M.R., he’s a focused businessman whose goals line up roughly with those of the the open source community.
Yesterday linspire annouced a partnership with Canonical to use the Ubuntu OS as the new base for Linspire (a no-brainer choice as far as I am concerned), which will have the added benefit(?) of […]

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Linux, BitKeeper and Git

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

A nice tutorial on GIT explains the development of the program, and Linux’s history.
Torvalds began working on Git as an interim solution to replace BitKeeper, which had previously been the primary source code tool in use by Linux kernel developers worldwide. Some members of the open source community felt that the BitKeeper license was not […]

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Now that’s what I call Bandwidth

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

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NTFS Mounting on linux

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Keeping this for later… also need to learn more about HAL.

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Linux on Toshiba Link Dump

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Some links I dug up while my computer was rebooting
Debian on a A80-117
Slackware on an A80-131
My A80-121 Specs and More.
Resizing my NTFS partition. Best way is probably with GParted Live CD.
Computer is back up, time to get back to work.

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Downloading FC5

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Jon Bauer has done his good deed for the week and pursuaded me to download FC5 and give Linux a try… I agreed to the first part and am in the process of downloading the 3.2gig iso.

I’ve looked at Ubuntu, but the fact that they are so Gnome heavy sorta scares me. So since Jon […]

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