17 May 2012, 5:52 am
Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we still need OpenOffice as well? In the... Read More »
16 May 2012, 4:41 am
The Register: Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it.... Read More »
7 May 2012, 3:31 pm
Unixmen: Linux ecosystem consists of so many people doing a great job, and it is only natural for someone not to know everyone out there. Many worthy developers are unknown to the majority of users and sometimes their magnificent projects are unused, or underused due to low publicity.... Read More »
2 May 2012, 7:11 am
At first glance Linux Live USB Creator looks much like UNetbootin, theUniversal USB Installer, and every other tool that aims to help you download and create a bootable Linux environment for your PC. And as those existing tools are generally very good it’s not immediately obvious why we might need... Read More »
30 April 2012, 9:51 am
Cloudy child follows hosting parent into HPC Zunicore, the cloudy infrastructure division of Peer 1 Hosting, is going ceepie-geepie hybrid and making its cloud suitable for parallel supercomputing workloads that are goosed by GPU coprocessors.…... Read More »
23 April 2012, 10:08 am
Jack Wallen stumbles across an incredibly handy command line tool for recording your command-fu. If you're looking for interesting ways to train users on the Linux (or Mac) command line -- shelr is the tool for you!... Read More »
20 April 2012, 11:59 am
Today on the occasion of his Millenium Technology Prize award, TechCrunch ran an interview with Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds. The most interesting bit of the interview came when Torvalds was asked what question he wished he was asked about … Continue reading → Linus Torvalds: Improving th... Read More »