Category: Linux
The O/S that keeps me free (as in speech and beer)
Leaving the ’70s behind.
Tidbits like this make me really excited about future desktop work like this.
If only it worked for Monroe.
As a late entrant into the PC world, my first “real” system at home was a Dell Pentium Pro 200MHz, at the time a top of the line monster that set me back about $3K. It was a great system, though, and I had my first dual-boot system on it, …
Update from the Left Coast.
Sorry for the blog delay, things have been busy here. Please, won’t you enjoy another edition of “Boring News About Me”? K thx. On Wednesday night, I finished The Time Traveler’s Wife, which was heartbreakingly wonderful in a really loneliness-inducing kind of way. (Why yes, I am a big sap. …
Emotional journey.
OK, so the trip from Dulles to San Diego was more of a leg-cramping, neck-cricking journey, courtesy of United. But did have the following observations. An older, married couple were sitting a few rows up from me on the plane. When the wife (center seat) returned from the rear lavatory, …
Mixed feelings.
Chris, I’m torn about these ads myself. On the one hand, they don’t completely suck. Attractive female representing Linux is a nice touch. Both the script and the production values are pretty good. On the other hand, the ads contribute to the mistaken impression that there’s no innovation in FOSS. …
So much bile, so little time.
I was a little surprised to read about the lengths to which people will go to be jerks to virtual strangers. I’ve tried both OpenBSD and Gentoo and didn’t find either to my liking. But hey, to each his own. I’m happy to see both these free software projects succeeding …
How the mighty have fallen.
ESR announced his own obsolescence this week on fedora-devel-list, and I’m sure by the time I post this blog entry, the weight of all the bits wasted on hand-wringing and arguing over his self-important announcement will have collapsed to form a virtual neutron star. I for one found it funny, …
A new frontier?
This seems like an opportune time to point out that free and open source software is a great way to escape persecution at the behest of megalomaniacal corporations from another country.