linux

selling open source to management

ryan — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:12:22 -0600

Here's a great Slashdot discussion started by a LAMP developer whose boss wants to move to C#/.NET. The marrow of the convo revolves around how to sell OSS to management and/or folks that don't understand how it works: Slashdot | Advocating Linux / OSS to Management.

Dells with Ubuntu

ryan — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:53:24 -0600

I know Ubuntu can't quite hold a candle to Windows or Macintosh for the common user, but still it's a pretty momentous day: Dell selling PCs with Ubuntu Linux.

Clustering

colin — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:21:55 -0600

Anyone here ever mess with clustering? I'm trying to come up with a good reason to do so. It seems that there are a lot of technologies that come on LiveCD now and use Linux / FreeBSD to allow for distributed computing. Things that come to mind:

- Rendering
- Music production
- Searching for aliens

Some links:

iTerm delete key when SSH'ing into Linux

ryan — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:48:53 -0600

I like using iTerm on the Mac (http://iterm.sourceforge.net) for SSH because it offers a number of improvements over the builtin terminal app. But one hassle is that the delete key (it's Delete on MacBooks, Backspace on Apple keyboards), when SSH'd into a Linux box, doesn't delete the character to the left but instead the character to the right. Here's how to change that:

Microsoft Claims Open Source is theirs???

Axman — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:25:43 -0600

Didn't Bill Gates steal the OS from Apple??? Now it seems it's NOT okay to take what isn't yours.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2189833/microsoft-claims-patents-linux

MacBook vs. Dell w/ Feisty

colin — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:41:33 -0600

I currently am testing out Ryan's MacBook vs.

USB "Light Sabre"

colin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:07:06 -0600

I have a new 4GB USB flash drive (with KEWL BLNKIGN LITE!!!1!), and I wasn't sure what to do with all that space.

Open cell phones?

colin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:25:21 -0600

One thing that keeps me yelling at my phone instead of feeling good about it is the closed nature of the beast. In just about any other device that you can own, you have the ability to get in th

wax — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:57:13 -0600

when Apple made the move to rewrite their OS years back, surely they took many things into consideration.

such as the propogation of Linux! wahooOOO!!!!

Beryl/Compiz on Kubuntu Feisty

colin — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:41:23 -0600

As part of my fooling around with Linux, I recently upgraded my laptop to Kubuntu, the beta of 7.04 Feisty, with mixed experiences. I had problems even getting things to dist-upgrade, etc, which