Just mentioned it in the comments of my previous post, but it’s worth a more public reminder…
That’s what I would describe as “the hopes and dreams of a generation” (of Software Freedom lovers), and is the result of fantastic product definition, branding, genuine user excitement, years of incredible — and largely unsung — work of [...]
Tux passes the baton to Tuz, the hastily-disguised Tasmanian Devil… at least for this release. Great to see one of the more high profile pledges of the madcap, ridiculous, wonderful and incredibly generous linux.conf.au 2009 auction being paid off.
linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz
Impact: help prevent extinction of species
The Tasmanian Devil is a shy iconic Australian [...]
Apparently, the delightfully simple /etc/iftab is no longer used, replaced with the ugly and fiercely undelightful /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. See, you can even tell from the name of the file that you’re not going to like it.
Surely udev could read and do something useful with /etc/iftab, even if it only provides a fraction of the functionality? Ubuntu [...]
If you haven’t celebrated New Year’s in Sydney, you haven’t celebrated New Year’s… and remember, kids, 2008 is the year of Linux on the des– kidding! Happy new year!
Photo courtesy SMH. Click the image for more.
So am I paranoid? Are invite-only events a necessary evil? Or should I let my curiousity overcome my principles? Hey, maybe one of those web 2.0 types could help me enable comments on my blog… — Rusty Russell, The foocamp clique?
… so I wrote down some of my musings for Rusty in an email, but [...]
“No doubt you’ve heard the prediction before — ‘this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop’. At the risk of being repetitive, though, I’m going to go ahead and say it: 2008 really could be the year of the Linux desktop.” — Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, Is 2008 the Year of the Linux [...]
“Apparently a market for more config options is alive and well. Thank you for helping make the future of Linux more clear to me.” — Len Brown, on the tastefulness of Linux config options
Today, Pipka came home with a story about a customer who was considering moving to a 100% Windows environment because he was merely unfamiliar with Linux.
Now, I wouldn’t recommend the strategy she used in the general case — in fact, I’d find it hard to recommend it under many circumstances at all — but here’s [...]
