Reading Free Software Magazine’s “Google Chrome OS. Or, how KDE and GNOME managed to shoot each other dead” I yet again see the ages old complaining about there being two major desktop environments on Linux and how bad this is. In another article, “10 Things I Hate About Linux” at least two reasons named have […]
Haiku OS Alpha 1 Screenshots
As you may or may not know Haiku OS Alpha 1 was recently released. It is a full featured and improved clone of the old BeOS. OSNews has a nice review starting with a bit of history. I downloaded and burned a live cd, but it doesn’t seem to support my hardware since the kernel […]
Google’s “reported attack site” nonsense could lead to a Firefox boycott
Certain pages on this site lead to a “reported attack site” warning for Firefox 3 users which is apparently a feature built into Firefox 3 and provided by Google. This is actually making me want to boycott Firefox because these kinds of cozy relationships is NOT what we want to see happen in the market. […]
Supporting Free Software by means of Civil Disobedience?
Free “as in freedom” Software supporters, including the Free Software Foundation love to talk about freedom. “It’s all about freedom”, we say, freedom of computer users to know and control what runs on their computers, to copy and share it with others and to modify it as they wish. The idea that software by nature […]
I’m not anti-mono anymore.
I’ve advocated many things not so long ago which I no longer do or in fact advocate the opposite. It’s just a matter of learning from new arguments and evidence as it’s presented to me over the course of time. One of the things I used to oppose was Mono, a Free Software implementation of […]
Why I chose Ubuntu after trying Windows 7
A couple of years ago I would probably easily dismiss the idea of trying out a new version of Windows on the basis of a Free Software ideology or the chorus of voices of Free Software or Open Source fans saying how it just sucks and I better not bother. But things have changed and […]
Linux is not an OS
One way that it could be claimed that Linux is not an operating system is by asserting that what we call “Linux” is in fact a name of the kernel, a core of the operating system, rather than an OS as a whole. Such assertions would usually come from the Free Software supporters who would […]
How to mirror an internet audio stream (using Icecast)
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Sometimes you might run into an internet radio station or stream that you like, but which keeps dropping out because of too many people listening. So what can you do about it? You can create a mirror and post a link to it somewhere where listeners are watching or send it to the station or […]
Changing boot resolution and color
How about a new tip? Well, on GNU/Linux distributions (and probably other free UNIX like systems) using GRUB for their boot manager it is possible to change the resolution and color of the boot screen, regardless of whether there is a splash or not. If you’re using an advanced distribution like Arch, Slackware, Debian or […]
Selling Freedomware: It’s about what THEY want.
I’ve been a little detached from the Free Software/Freedomware/Open Source world for a while. I no longer have that ongoing urge to tell the world about Free Software and convert the whole world. I’m not drooling over “200X is the year of the Linux Desktop” titles anymore. I’ve been focusing on developing a solid business […]