Linux: Sans Souci
You may remember something a bit paranoid written in these diaries a few days ago; turns out it wasn't paranoid enough--there is indeed a cyberwar coming this way, and best to lock down your...
View ArticleLinux: Full Carpal Tunnel
Anytime you do something for a bunch of days in a row (got to be close to eighty now), you get some pretty darn sore wrists, fingers, and so on. Just can't be helped. Actually had to put aside...
View ArticleLinux: BLAG6K And Beyond
BLAG7K Is in Alpha release, so I thought in anticipation of it going final, I would try the 6K install. BLAG stands for Brixton Linux Action Group, which "works to overthrow corporate control of...
View ArticleLinux: Wolvix
Wolvix is a lightweight distro that just reached release candidate stage; in actual fact, there are two releases, Wolvix Cub (243M) and Wolvix Hunter (482M). I downloaded the Hunter ISO and...
View ArticleLinux: Vector
After yesterday's experience with Wolvix; I thought I'd try to install another Slackware based distro, VectorLinux. For those less familiar with the open source software environment, this site...
View ArticleLinux: Open Sourcerer
Somebody want to pony up some cash to buy these folks a clue: "I applaud AT&T's decision to take action to clear their networks of infringing material", he said, "and I look forward to...
View ArticleLinux: LinuxConsole
From France comes a nifty little wonder guaranteed to run on just about any x86 box ever made, LinuxConsole. The ISO I downloaded is the full (692M) sized version, designed to run on 64M of ram;...
View ArticleLinux: Austrumi
If you are new to open source software, then please check here, here, here, and here. Today I'd like to look at Austrumi 1.5.1 a Latvian business card sized distro, much in the vein of Puppy...
View ArticleLinux: OpenSuse
If you are new to open source then check out the sites here, here, here and here. Much useful information to be found therein. Since my first Linux experience was with OpenSuse 10.1 way...
View ArticleLinux: DesktopBSD
If you are new to open source software, then some fine sites to visit are here, here, here, here, and here. Tons of open source apps at links two and three, for Mac and Windows respectively....
View ArticleLinux: DreamLinux 2.2MMGL
If you are new to open source, then just click on by; I can't be bothered to explain every darn thing from square one to you. Just kidding. Click on my username for some previous diaries, or...
View ArticleLinux: Slax
New to open source? A fine list of links can be found to the right on the blogroll; additionally there are a number of diaries on this subject by clicking on my username. Slax, as the name...
View ArticleLinux: MusixGNU
MusixGNU+Linux1.0r2_Stable (hereafter referred to as MusixGNU) is a specialty Linux distribution with musicians/artists in mind. The project's main focus is on (from the Wiki) using the best...
View ArticleLinux: SAM
If you are new to open source then some fine links to check out are here, here, here, and here. Today we'll be looking at SAM Linux 2007 test-1, a Linux distribution (also called a distro)...
View ArticleLinux: Rasta!
New to open source? Some information can be found here, here, here, and here. Today we'll be looking at another Music and Graphical artist Linux distribution (commonly referred to as a...
View ArticleLinux: Granular
New to open source? Some fine sources of information are here, here, here, and here. Today we'll be looking at another Linux distribution that comes with everything ready to go out of the...
View ArticleLinux: #97 The Larch
How does opensourceaffect you? Well, for starters, you may have heard of an organization called BuyBlue, a project that included a database of companies that were more in line with your values:...
View ArticleLinux: Mint
Are you new to open source? Do you want to learn more about it and its significance for you? If so, some sources of information are available, all just a click away: here, here, here, here, and...
View ArticleLinux: Famelix 2.0
If you are new to open source, Linux, FreeBSD then some information is available for you here, here, here, here, and here. Today we'll be looking at a very artsy Linux distribution,...
View ArticleOpen Source: FAQ
Are you new to the world of Open Source software? Do you wonder how it can and does impact your life, now and in the future? Some fine sources of information can be found here, here, here, here,...
View ArticleOpen Source: Process
Not familiar with Open Source? Some information on how Open Source software impacts you and what it can do for you and your community are available here, here, here, here, and here....
View ArticleOpen Source: Gentoo Live
Planned on taking a break, but this was just too important to pass up. Apologies again for being so close to the morning apertif; work constraints made posting earlier unavoidable. If you are...
View ArticleOpen Source: CentOS Live
This is where I'm supposed to put a bunch of links related to the significance of Open Source, how the values of the Open Source movement are by and large the same as our very own Democratic...
View ArticleOpen Source: Train Wreck
If you are curious about the significance of Open Source in the world today, I've tried to answer some of those concerns in the top two links on the blogroll to your right; other fine links...
View ArticleOpen Source: Pirates 'R Us
If you are not familiar with Open Source software, then an excellent place to start is here; a more in-depth examination of Open Source operating systems, software, and the philosophy related...
View ArticleOpen Source: Rescue Rangers
That title ought to get some attention, eh? Well, what about this: While Google/Youtube is not fully Open Source, they are doing more than just about any other company out there to push...
View ArticleOpen Source: Sabayon Business Edition
Tempted to call this diary 'Open Source: Recommends', just to see how far I could push the diary pimping, but as Open Source just isn't very sexy, it has no command such as apt-get begin...
View ArticleOpen Source: Help Desk
Open Source software and systems continue to gain adherents worldwide, in addition to Japan recently deciding in favor of the Open Document Format (quite significant in and of itself), we now...
View ArticleOpen Source: The End
Pay attention, you will be quizzed after the following demonstration: PC-BSD install, and this: PCLinuxOS in action, (more below)
View ArticleOpen Source: Open Access
The content and information gatekeepers want to keep you ignorant. They want to be sure that you can only watch what they decide is important, and want to control how you access that content,...
View ArticleOpen Source: Pwned
It's all over for Linux and Open Source. You can read the gory details here. What has happened to lead to this horrible state of affairs, you may well ask; simply put, Microsoft has conquered...
View ArticleOpen Source: Red Flag
Whoopsie! Last time I diaried about Open Source in China, I was, well, pwned. Seems that things aren't as bad as I feared. Consider that Linux has been riding on a wave in China, topping the...
View ArticleOpen Source: Coming Soon
Time to dust off these pages and fire off another shot. If you are trying to share content with others, or even yourself within your own home, be sure that you have paid for it, at least three...
View ArticleOpen Source: Moondance
Open source is finally coming into its own. With the deathblow to the supreme FUDsters SCO in the SCO vs. Novell litigation, there's little to hold back widespread acceptance of Linux and...
View ArticleOpen Source: Own Goal
Lunar July. Ghost Month. Specifically, the worst day of Ghost Month, the 15th, when the gates of hell are wide open, and all manner of bedevilment occurs. People in Asia are offering up big...
View ArticleOpen Source: Staying Safe With Firefox/NoScript
This is not really an Open Source diary, but rather a response to the script attack that several diarists have been having trouble with. So no conversion/evangelism/etc. on Linux/Open Source,...
View ArticleLinux: TinyMe
If you are interested in getting that really old machine up and running again, with as little as ~32MB of ram, then there is a shiny new competitor to PuppyLinux and Damn Small Linux: TinyMe....
View ArticleOpen Source: Hacker's Nightmare
NimbleX is the latest lightweight Linux distribution to hit the internets; it's somewhat unique in that it uses the KDE desktop environment in less than 100MB. It's something of a breakthrough,...
View ArticleOpen Source: Anticipation
There's never been a better time to jump into the Open Source Software pool. In the next several weeks, we'll witness the true coming of age of Linux, *BSD, and other Open Source operating...
View ArticleOpen Source: The Seven Pillars of Linux
The crazy season is upon us, when a ton of Free and Open Source Software operating systems are being released to an increasingly larger crowd of enthusiasts, and I'd like to take a moment to...
View ArticleOpen Source: Mandriva 2008
This is the second look at the seven major Linux Free and Open Source Software operating systems; yesterday was OpenSuse 10.3 RC1 (release candidate one, a bit more on that further down); I...
View ArticleOpen Source: It's Over. Linux Has Won.
Time to hang up my Open Source spurs. The battle is over, and Linux has won. Back when I started this series (early April of this year), things very much hung in the balance; Microsoft was...
View ArticleOpen Source: PC-BSD 1.4
This is a release I've been waiting for quite a while; it's a nifty front-end installer for FreeBSD 6.2 (the latest and greatest version of FreeBSD) that takes all the hassle out of installing a...
View ArticleOpen Source: Greatest Hits
This is like Greatest Hits week, visiting all the of the old favorites from the past year; today is the turn for LinuxMint, an Ubuntu (Feisty) based distro that is very easy to set up and a...
View ArticleOpen Source: Don't Dis The Gibbon!
Don't ever Dis The Gibbon! After a long wait, Ubuntu (Kubuntu) Gutsy Gibbon has made it into beta. It looks like a dual boot will be in order: Mandriva for Work, and Ubuntu for play; KDE on one,...
View ArticleMy Neighbor Kubuntu
Greetings all! Sorry to have been absent for so long, but was starting up a Linux diary (blog) in another space. I started writing about Open Source software, primarily Linux and *BSD (with a...
View ArticleReady To Make Nice
There's no better time to make sure you are safe and secure in your online life than now; while the proprietary vendors say that you are extra super safe, why take their words for it? Just a quick...
View ArticleBack Up
Concerned about privacy? Ever wonder how secure your system is? Tired of paying for the never ending "upgrades" that provide little to no functionality, or are even a downgrade? If these are...
View ArticleSecurity DIY
With all the concern shown in recent days about privacy and security, it's no surprise that more and more folks are hopping on to the Open Source bandwagon. If you are waiting for UltraMegaCorp or...
View ArticleThe Water's Fine
There really is no reason to be tied down by a proprietary system any longer. Everything you need to do is available in a Linux distribution of your choice. All you need to do is get the iso file, burn...
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