About Linux, Legal and a cat
31
Jan
Do you remember my story about Google, Linux and the GooglePack as a test balloon?
Things are developing - according to a article in The Register, Google, already one of the largest Linux users worldwide (all their servers for the search engine etc. run on Linux) is working on its version of a desktop Linux, based [...]
30
Jan
There is another wonderful interview about a real Linux success story, this time with E-Trade’s Vice President of Architecture Lee Thompson (E-Trade is one of the largest American internet stock brokers). It shows that Linux is not only ready for mission critical applications and gives you back the freedom of choice but saves you also [...]
25
Jan
Two days ago, my router went off for a break during the day. I was downloading Suse 10.1beta, 5 CD, about 2,5 GB via BitTorrent on the same machine that is hosting this website. Boy, the router did not like that. Obviously, some sort of packets (broken, incomplete headers, whatever) can crash the router BIOS, [...]
23
Jan
Jean-Marie Lapeyre is Ingénieur des télécommunications, Directeur technique du système d’information fiscal. In English, he says we can just say CTO of the French Tax Agency, IT department.
JP is interviewing him on Groklaw about Linux and Open Source in the French tax department and how it helps to save millions.
I guess such interviews are much [...]
23
Jan
Finally, I assembled my new PC.
Wow - it is really quiet! The new power supply met all my expectations, also the CPU cooler is very good. The Venice stepping of my AMD64 3800+ is really a progress compared to its predecessor - obviously much more effective in speed and power scaling. Also the SATA harddisk [...]
19
Jan
Do you like the stylish AppleMac desktop design but dont want to make Steven Jobs even richer?
Then take a look at this distro here, called DreamLinux Your wildest dreams about a stylish Linux desktop are coming true
Although Dreamlinux is a Brasilian distro, you can easily switch the language from Portugese to English or [...]
18
Jan
Recently, I sold (well, actually, at that price, donated) my PC to my brother, so I had to get a new one. As always, I need a reliable workhorse that allows me to do all my office work. However, the system is also well suited to play the latest games (not that I do that, [...]
7
Jan
When Google last night presented its GooglePack, another attack towards Microsoft, many of the Linux and OpenSource commenters and bloggers were disappointed that
- the GooglePack does currently not contain OpenOffice
- is not available for Linux
Well, the reasons for the absence of OpenOffice are unknown yet, my guess is it was simply to big for those [...]
