A middle school teacher in Austin, Texas confiscated Linux disks from a student, because, she told him, it was not possible that Linux was free and what he was doing was illegal. Storis on blog of Helios and nixCraft.
I’ve recently reorganized my use of virtual servers for my company’s web sites, which led to me having one site that does not use a control panel, and just has one website on it. Oddly, even though I’d read up on how to redirect www to non-www and have the SSL certificate handle the result,…
Opensource.com is a very useful site. Here’s a list of open source alternatives to some common applications. I have used many of these myself. I plan in the near future to talk about the differences between the commercial options and open source options. There are often excellent reasons to use the commercial options, for example,…
Since I often upgrade, trade, or even occasionally build new machines, I pick up spare parts on many of the deals by allowing people some credit for usable older parts. I did really well on such a deal yesterday, and built the machine I’m typing this on from the results, with spares still lying around….
A very nice post at Linux Magazine explains the benefits of Aptitude and the basics of how to use it. Aptitude takes the apt-get command and provides a menu driven system. This is one of those nifty old menu systems that runs in your terminal window. Enjoy!
I have long been an advocate of OpenOffice.org, and have some of my commercial clients using it. For most business needs for an office suite, it provides more than enough capability, and saves companies large amounts of money, even if they make significant donations to the project. I was disappointed in the latest version of…
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