I have Linux! I have Linux!
Ok, after two days of trying to get Windos 1900 installed and working , I sat down an hour ago and installed Linux. In an hour. Smirk. Ok, I will be honest. I did have some problems, but I believe they were of my own ignorance. 0) I started with trying to install Suse. However, I couldn't get it to install. Why? Because I didn't read the menu. There is a startup menu and the first entry is boot to harddisk. I thought that was the thing to do so I did it about 4 times. Then I gave up. However, I went back to it and subsequently realized that I should have chosen the 2nd men...

Why linux is linux
We don't destroy, we create. We don't imitate, we build. We are not a network, we are a personal OS. -- http://www.texeme.com Hi John, Attempting to Speak for Linux, You wrote: << We don't destroy, we create. We don't imitate, we build. We are not a network, we are a personal OS. >> Linux is more like this: << Like everything else, we consume and are consumed. We exchange ideas with everyone, to the point where it's almost impossible to track. We are artisans, not mass producers. >> Jeff Relf wrote: > Linux is mo...

My Linux is not your Linux
To the denizens of comp.os.linux.advocacy! So many people demonstrate in this newsgroup that they know only a Linux of Hatred and Greed, of paranoia, and of a selfish sense of entitlement. They seem always to be behaving like monkeys in reaction to human dissenters, throwing feces at one another and beating their chests pretending to know something. My Linux is not that Linux. My Linux is the Linux of Love, of sharing, friendship, community. It is a uniquely human Linux and not one for monkeys. When I speak with fellow Linux users in real life (i.e. not in the monkeyhouse of COLA) they remind me of myself: practical, freedom-loving, anti-corporate. Here in COLA however they remind me of monkeys or spoiled brats or worse, corporate sysadmins. My Linux is not your Linux. It is the human Linux that acknowledges that Linux involves human work to create, that although it is free you are not entitled to it, that although it is created in large part by volunteers, they deserve to be paid for their gifts with at least gratitude. And that monkeys and self-entitled brats and sysadmins never thank anyone. yarmfelder@yahoo.com writes: > To the denizens of comp.os.linux.advocacy! You crossposted to gnu.misc.discuss. > My Linux is not your Linux. It is the human Linux > that acknowledges that Linux involves human work > to create, that although it is free you are not > entitled to it, that although it is created in large part > by volunteers, they deserve to be pa...

[News] Another Company (6WIND) Raves About Linux, Linux, Linux...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 6WIND Launches New Software Solution for Application Development upon Multi-Core Processor Architectures that Simplifies, Reduces Costs and Speeds Time to Market ,----[ Quote ] | 6WIND, the market’s only provider of a networking software solution to | simplify application development within multi-core processor based equipment, | today announced a new solution targeted at mid-range applications (2 to 4 | cores) to provide the highest L2/L3 performance for a pure Linux system. | Based on Fast Path architecture, the 6WINDGate™ EDS software enab...

[News] Linux, Linux, Linux at Acer (Phones and Tablets)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Acer CEO whips out iPad rival ,----[ Quote ] | Acer has shown off an Android-based iPad | alternative. `---- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/27/acer_shows_ipad_tablet/ Acer Gets Official with ‘Stream’ ,----[ Quote ] | Acer has created a new 3D user interface that | features animations and a 'peeling' gesture to | unlock the phone. The lock screen lets users | read information without having to open | applications and a History panel provides quick | access to often-used apps. `---- http://www.androidg...

[News] [Linux] Linux Has Advantage in the Mobile OS World
How Linux morphed from a server to a mobile OS ,----[ Quote ] | When evaluating Linux as a possible OS candidate, it is important to | remember that the Linux "model" for mobile devices is horizontal. That | is, Linux is not presented as a vertically integrated top to bottom | solution for a mobile device supplied by one vendor. | | It's a sharp contrast to the other OS suppliers such as Microsoft | with Windows Mobile, Symbian and PalmSource. These suppliers | support a highly integrated software stack, incorporating not | only an OS but also extensive middleware and application layer | pieces. Arguably the price for such integration is lack of | flexibility and loss of control. `---- http://www.wirelessnetdesignline.com/howto/broadband/199600344;jsessionid=N1IAB5VKZRD0QQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN http://tinyurl.com/2c3z7z Microsoft taps mobiles for developing world ,----[ Quote ] | Microsoft is facing fierce competition from Linux, however, most | notably the One Laptop per Child project to ship low cost | notebooks to schools in developing nations. | | Linux vendor Red Hat unveiled a Global Desktop last week | targeting computers at small and medium sized businesses as | well as governments in third world nations. `---- http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2189936/microsoft-taps-mobile-tech Related: 70 percent of smartphones use Symbian ,----[ Quote ] | At 3GSM it became clear that 70 percent of all smartphones use Symbian. | | Linux accounts for 16.9 perc...

[News] [Linux] Company Favours the Use of Linux; Another Major Game Ported to Linux
KLA-Tencor's New LithoWare Tool Gives Designers Advanced RET/OPC Capabilities... ,----[ Quote ] | Operating in a Linux environment allows LithoWare to distribute | huge volumes of simulations across a large number of computers, | giving engineers the ability to perform advanced computational | lithography and explore an extended set of process parameters | that would not be possible on individual PCs or with other tools | without a major re-calibration effort for each change. `---- http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070530005220&newsLang=en http://tinyurl.com/yop4mm Linux Penunbra Overture released ,----[ Quote ] | Frictional Games has announced a Linux version of Penumbra Overture | is now available. `---- http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=14115 ...

[News] [Linux] The $100 Linux Laptop Presented in Long Island Linux User Group
dotCOMmieLilug, OLPC presented by John Palmieri (2007) ,----[ Quote ] | Recording of Long Island Linux User Group (lilug.org) talk on OLPC by John | (J5) Palmieri. `---- http://www.archive.org/details/LILUG_20070508_OLPC Related: One laptop per child and open source ,----[ Quote ] | For once Microsoft is getting the reverse Linux laptop experience: | little support and little documentation for the hardware. The result | will be a platform that doesn?t include any of the really novel | features that we're building in, bad power management, no systems | management via the firmware and...

[News] [Linux] Linux Users Groups Formed in Bahrain, Macedonia Looks at Linux Laptops
Bahrain LUG Announced ,----[ Quote ] | We are pleased to announce the first meeting of the Bahrain Linux User | Group! `---- http://mahmood.tv/2007/05/30/bahrain-lug-announced/ One Laptop Per Macedonian Child ,----[ Quote ] | I am Novica Nakov of Free Software Macedonia and the Macedonian | Government announced a project about computers in education in | December 2006. The ambitious project "Computer for every student" | is now under way. `---- http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/countries/one_laptop_per_macedonian_child.html Wintel is already on the scene, prepared to "...

[News] [Linux] Vista Troubles Lead Users to GNU/Linux
Insistent idiots ,----[ Quote ] | The strangest feedback I got for my Vista sucks entry the other day | was from an email from the VP of Operations at one of Diskeeper's | competitors offering me a special discount on their defragmenter. | Apparently, he thought that "thirty minutes later the disk has been wiped | and Ubuntu is up and running" is l33tsp34k for "I am in the market for | Vista software". `---- http://maycontaintracesofbolts.blogspot.com/2007/05/insistent-idiots.html Linux should really get some disk defragmentation tools as well. ;-) Vista Breaks It...

[News] Linux is Linux is Linux, Not 'Cheap Windows'
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reimagining The Desktop ,----[ Quote ] | KDE 4.1 goes a long way to solving that dilemma. `---- http://www.northdavisroad.net/2008/08/reimagining-the-desktop/ Linux should remain Linux ,----[ Quote ] | I disagree that Linux should concentrate on running native Windows apps. This | is exactly the opposite of what the community should be doing. If you notice | more and more companies are working to make Linux their base rather than | Windows. This frees them of paying tax to MS and stops MS from beating their | products with tighter Windows...

[News] [Linux] Linux Foundation and MontaVista Organise Linux Conferences
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit ,----[ Quote ] | The first Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit takes place mid | June, featuring the fourth Desktop Architects Meeting, an LSB | face to face meeting and various council meetings. `---- http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/linux-foundation-collaboration-summit/ MontaVista Vision 2007 Embedded Linux Developers Conference... ,----[ Quote ] | Hosted by MontaVista, and including platinum sponsors | Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Intel, and Texas Instruments, | the Vision 2007 event is expected to bring the latest tips, | technique...

[News] [Linux] Another Company Chooses Linux; Oracle's 'Linux Family' Extends Too
Columbitech Taps SUSE Linux Enterprise From Novell to Help Retailers Reach PCI Compliance and Safeguard Customer Data ,----[ Quote ] | This offering will give retailers PCI compliance by securing all | wireless devices and providing secure wireless access to the | back-end systems. `---- http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070605005558&newsLang=en Momentum continues for Oracle ,----[ Quote ] | Oracle recently announced that momentum continues to build | around the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support Program (which includes | supp...

[News] [Linux] More Users and More Choice in Linux Makes Users Happier
A Linux User in Vista-land: Finishing Up ,----[ Quote ] | And finally, Vista has not gotten it straight with multiple users. In linux | you can simply switch users, over multiple f’s (f7-f11 for X users, | f1-f6 for terminal users). With Vista switching back and forth between | users is nowhere near as quick. Its logout, select user, enter password, | and then see other desktop, with 1-2 second gaps between each of these | operations. `---- http://nosrednaekim.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/a-linux-user-in-vista-land-finishing-up/ Zen of Linux ,----[ Quote ] | The beauty of Linux is that the...

[News] New Releases of GNU/Linux: Bio-Linux and Portable Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bio-Linux goes global ,----[ Quote ] | The NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre (NEBC), based at the UK Centre | for Ecology & Hydrology, has released the latest version of NEBC Bio-Linux, a | specialised computing system designed for the environmental genomics research | community. `---- http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/informationstechnologie/bio_linux_global_125318.html Portable Linux is now available ,----[ Quote ] | I've written a small application to create bootable, multi-purpose USB drives | out of Ubun...

[News] New Audiocasts About GNU/Linux: Linux Basement and Linux Outlaws
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 LB - Episode 44 - Jay and Friends by Linux Basement http://www.linuxbasement.com/content/lb-episode-44-jay-and-friends-linux-basement Linux Outlaws 117 - May the Schwartz Be With You ,----[ Quote ] | In this episode, we interview Randal L. Schwartz about | Perl, Merlyn and Stonehenge, BSD, being a professional | comedian, how Karaoke saved his life, the Schwartzian | transform, FLOSS Weekly and much more. `---- http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/117 Recent: Linux Outlaws 104 - The Linux In-Laws ,----[ Quote ] | On this week’s show: Launchpad goes open source, the real reason why | Microsoft contributed code to the kernel, Intel thinks it has human rights, | why the Swedish Pirate Party might endanger the GPL and much more. `---- http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/104 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrd2qMACgkQU4xAY3RXLo5FbwCfcK7KAJFvWlUB81EttdqrT8SR W6IAn1GNEoHKAlinsiUB0QuwBzGhU3Qq =u/rH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:43:30 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > LB - Episode 44 - Jay and Friends by Linux Basement > > http://www.linuxbasement.com/content/lb-episode-44-jay-and-friends-linux-basement > > Linux Outlaws 117 - May the Schwartz Be With You More low budget crap. Can't you guys get some decent equipment? It sounds like everyone is talking through a cup and a string. Oh an...

[News] Linux Tech Talk, New Linux Gazette and Linux In A Nutshell
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linux Tech Talk 3 ,----[ Quote ] | For quite awhile, I’ve been wanting to | install Debian onto my second PC, but I | didn’t want to have to “start from | scratch” and tweak and configure | everything on it. What I really wanted to | do was to use rsync to copy the files in | debian1’s / and /home partitions onto | partitions on debian2, and see if debian2 | would boot up and run, already configured | the same way as debian1. I was concerned | that it might not work, because debian1 | and debian2 use different monitor | resolutions and completely different CPUs | — although I was pretty confident that the | different CPUs would not cause a problem | because they can both use the type of | linux kernel (686) that is already | installed on debian1. `---- http://www.computerbob.com/wp/linux-tech-talk-3.php Linux Gazette - January 2010 (#170) http://linuxgazette.net/170/TWDT.html Linux In A Nutshell – Sixth Edition ,----[ Quote ] | The book begins with some simple ideas about | the operating system and then leads through | the System and Network Administration | overview through boot methods and package | management to the Bash shell and pattern | matching. The latter is something that is an | invaluable source of facts for the first time | and experienced user. The section on the use | of variuos editors is also useful as is the | later part of the book which shows CVS and | Git management. If you wo...

[News] [Linux] Linux Gets Another Filesystem
Linux: LogFS, A New Flash Filesystem ,----[ Quote ] | In contrast, Jorn compared his new LogFS, "LogFS has an on-medium | tree, fairly similar to Ext2 in structure, so mount times are O(1). | In absolute terms, the OLPC system has mount times of ~3.3s for | JFFS2 and ~60ms for LogFS." `---- http://kerneltrap.org/node/8159 Related: Mount Wikipedia As A Virtual Filesystem ,----[ Quote ] | Thanks to WikipediaFS, Wikipedia fiends tired of reloading pages | in the browser can now, provided they?re using Linux, mount the | site as a virtual filesystem. | | WikipediaFS is a mountable...

Linux and audio? Here is what a Linux user is up against!!!
http://www.nakack.net/?p=19 Shuttle SN25P Sound I just bought a new machine a few days ago and lo and behold, the sound isn't supported yet. It's the onboard sound chip from a shuttle FN25 board in the SN25P chassis (nforce4, socket 939). Or, at least not out of the box in ubuntu hoary. The driver that this thing uses is the 'ice1724' module. Here's how I got it to work... 1st off, when I would modprobe the default kernel module, I'd receive these messages in the kernel ring buffer (dmesg): ice1724: Invalid EEPROM (size = 255) ICE1724: probe of 0000:05:06.0 failed ...

[News] [Linux] Supercomputer Center Chooses Linux; Linux PBX Deployed in More Places
Supercomputer Center Gets Super Storage Needs Met ,----[ Quote ] | SDSC hosts a 4.4 teraflop IA 64 Linux cluster, 1.4 petabytes of | online disk storage with more than 25 petabytes of archival | storage, 220 terabytes of General Parallel File System mounted | across the TeraGrid, and is connected to other national TeraGrid | partners by a 20 Gbps cross-country backbone. `---- http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/storage/news/article.php/3680566 Aspect Software Successfully Deploys Asterisk and Aspect Unified IP at Corporate Headquarters ,----[ Quote ] | Aspect Software is also planning on...

[News] 3 New Linux Audiocasts: Linux Basement, LinuxCrazy, Linux Outlaws
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 LB - Episode 41 - My Talk From Southeast Linux Fest by Linux Basement ,----[ Quote ] | My Talk at Southeast Linux Fest. `---- http://www.linuxbasement.com/content/lb-episode-41-my-talk-southeast-linux-fest-linux-basement Podcast 60 Audacity | recordMyDesktop | PiTiVi (Video) ,----[ Quote ] | In this Screencast, I give an overview of Audacity and recordMyDesktop, the | tools I use to record my Podcasts and Screencasts. If you have any questions, | you can reach me at david at linuxcrazy dot com, or on freenode irc, channel | #linuxcrazy. `---- http://linuxcrazy.com/?q=node/72 Linux Outlaws 104 - The Linux In-Laws ,----[ Quote ] | On this week’s show: Launchpad goes open source, the real reason why | Microsoft contributed code to the kernel, Intel thinks it has human rights, | why the Swedish Pirate Party might endanger the GPL and much more. `---- http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/104 Loads of Linux shows recently! Recent: Podcast Season 1 Episode 13 ,----[ Quote ] | In this episode: Google announces its own Chrome OS operating system and the | Moblin project gets X Windows running with user privileges. We talk about how | we got into Linux and discuss whether we think Google is becoming Microsoft. `---- http://www.tuxradar.com/content/podcast-season-1-episode-13 FLOSS Weekly 77: Jaunty Jackalope ,----[ Quote ] | Ubuntu, the free, community developed, Debian-based Linux operating system. | | Guests: Jono ...

[News] 3 New Audiocasts: Going Linux, Linux Outlaws, Linux Basement
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Going Linux 106 http://goinglinux.com/shownotes.html#glp106 Linux Outlaws 156 - Blame the Uwe Seeler http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/156 LB - Episode 57 - SELF Barfly by Linux Basement ,----[ Quote ] | Linux Basement Talk | | * Props to Dave "Sexy" Yates of | LottaLinuxLinks Oggcast for mentioning LB | in LLL-125. We should return the favor. | ;-) | * Claudio did an off-the-cuff guest spot | on Linux in the Ham Shack on June 1 and | did his best to promote Linux, FLOSS, and | LB of course. :-D | o http://lhspodcast.info/2010/06/episode-039-deep-thoughts/ | * Frostbitemedia http://www.frostbitemedia.org | * DoortoDoorGeek's Podcast http://www.linuxbasix.com/ `---- http://www.linuxbasement.com/content/lb-episode-57-self-barfly-linux-basement Recent: Podcast Season 2 Episode 11 ,----[ Quote ] | In this episode: Google releases its own | command-line tool, Ubuntu drops F-Spot, and | has anyone seen Mandriva? Listen to the | results of our haiku challenge, and we ask, | do you use open source software for freedom | or function? `---- http://www.tuxradar.com/content/podcast-season-2-episode-11 Podcast 78 Gentoo Screenshots + IRC Basics http://linuxcrazy.com/?q=node/92 Episode 0x2A: Waiting for Bilski ,----[ Quote ] | Karen and Bradley briefly talk about waiting | for the Bilski case to be decided by the | U.S. Supreme Court. | | This show was relea...

[News] [Linux] Sun is Hunting for Linux Servers, But Keeps Losing Space to Linux
Sun Microsystems launches new Enterprise Services Plan ,----[ Quote ] | Sun is striving to establish its Solaris Unix operating system as | an alternative to Linux. Unlike other vendors, Sun promotes its | version of Unix as an open, non-hardware-aligned platform. `---- http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=5856#2944171340830618264 It has just lost to Linux again. Burbank Gets Higher Performance In Move To Blade Servers ,----[ Quote ] | Other advantages were inherent in the blade server architecture. For | one, applications that ran on Solaris were consolidated on to a Linux | bla...

[News] Making Linux More Like OS X and OS X More Like Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mac OS X - Highly Customized Linux ,----[ Quote ] | Few players in the Linux arena creates their Linux distro to look like Mac OS | X or Windows.... | | Here I'm going to list some distro which looks like Mac OS. `---- http://linuxtreat.blogspot.com/2008/07/mac-os-x-highly-customized-linux.html A Linux User's Guide to Mac ,----[ Quote ] | Take a deep breath and repeat after me: A computer is just a tool. It is only | so good as it serves to make life better for users. A "better" life is | obviously not the same thing for everyone. For me, it means making my Mac | more like Linux, as I began to discuss in my last article. `---- http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/474.html Yesterday: Ubuntu: Challenge the Mac ,----[ Quote ] | Normally I would just provide a Diigo link to this if it weren’t something | I’ve been saying a lot in talks. Over at InformationWeek, Serdar Yegulaip was | a piece called “Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Ambitions: Challenge the Mac”. He | quotes Mark Shuttleworth saying in a Datamation article: | |     … our goal, very simply, is to make sure the Free software ecosystem can |     deliver a Mac OS-like experience, or an experience that will compete with |     the Mac OS. | | I think this is exactly right. It’s time to look past Windows, even with its | huge installed base, as any sort of “gold standard” (as Mark calls it), | especially for user interface. ...