So back on this topic again today. I am going to take a look at a few different statements here in this post, and then I’m going to go over them and explain why these statements are or are not correct. Should you wish to verify any of my information, you’re more than welcome to [...]
Of the many controversies in free software, this is one that I have long found to be interesting. People seem to define things in different ways, which leads to confusion (and arguing) when one person calls a system a "GNU/Linux" system and the next calls it just the "Linux" system. Too often, I have found people saying "You [...]
Richard Stallman. That’s right. Now, there are many things that the man has done that have been effective, and the man has worked hard to ensure that we have freedom in the vast world of software. But recently, he has stated that Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor to the free software community,” and [...]
The new server is now in. The whole trausch.us domain is now running from it, aside from one service (my email MX backup for my desktop machine). And even better, it’s being run in a Linux Container. The server now has the ability to (very efficiently) stand in for at least 10 servers, nicely and [...]
Since 1996, when I was introduced to the concept of free software and the GNU/Linux operating system (in the form of Slackware), I started to take a look around and found myself amazed at what was the free software community then. Watching it build massively amazing pieces of software that are second to none in [...]
Once upon a time, adequate space was a rare thing to come across, and so many UNIX and UNIX-like systems set aside an allocation of space reserved for root when a filesystem is formatted. This usually is done as a percentage of the filesystem—by default with ext{2,3,4} file systems, that is 5%. This tends to [...]
This post is a bit of a “brain dump” of sorts for some thoughts that I have as to replacing AllTray with a more versatile, powerful, and robust tool to handle various needs of users when it comes to taking applications and docking them to the system tray. Why? I’ve used AllTray for a long [...]
No, not the PlayStation. PS1, the shell prompt variable. This prompt should work on any system that has the lsb_release utility installed. If you don’t have that installed, then you can change the OS_RELEASE variable to match whatever system you’re using, by hand. Append the following to the end of your ~/.bashrc (if you use [...]
An article over at “Works With U” has an interesting thing that I have run into a few times before: And here’s another ironic twist: Consumers may actually prefer to pay for Ubuntu — rather than get it for free. No joke: Many consumers don’t like free software. They fear it. My brother in law [...]
I was going to post this last night, but I wanted some time to think about what I’d just finished reading before I decided to write about it here. Yesterday, I read Little Brother. It was an awesome, amazing read. It is also the only book that I have ever read entirely on my computer [...]
