Entries from Geeky Baldisms tagged with 'FOSS'
Gadflies
Gadfly: pest: a persistently annoying person. We're all annoying, we can't help it. Imperfect humans will always sometimes rub each other the wrong way. And let's face it, sometimes we CHOOSE to be annoying. It can even be fun. With...
GREAT Forum Software!
I just started a new website, I Hate the Home Team!, a forum for folks to gripe about having relocated somewhere far away from their beloved favorite teams, and who are now forced to deal with local media and fans...
Linux With a Minty Flavor
I love Ubuntu. It's been my choice for a desktop Linux for three years. But I just veered down a side road. it's still Ubuntu under the hood, but the distro is actually Linux Mint. Mint is basically Ubuntu with...
OSALT.com
One of the things that makes people nervous about switching to Linux (and justifiably so) is the prospect of doing without one's favorite programs. That was certainly a major hurdle that I had to clear. I did so by going...
Computing in Tough Economic Times
Computerworld columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recently posted this article on his blog. In it, he showed how a serious economic downturn may be good news for the open-source movement. He outlined five specific programs that can be replaced by FOSS...
Shameless Unpaid Endorsement: The Open Technology Group
In a couple of weeks, I'm off to Raleigh, North Carolina for my third consecutive year of a week's worth of training with Chander Ganeson at The Open Technology Group. The training you receive for the price that you pay...
The Door Is Open?
This article by Computerworld's Cyber-Cynic, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, says that MS has fubarred their desktop scenario so badly by dropping XP (despite customer pleadings to the contrary) and pushing Vista that the door is wide open for Linux and Macs...
Firefox Buzz
Firefox, you've come a long way! IE had around a 95% share when Firefox 1 was released. Now it's down to about 66%. Firefox has steadily grown in popularity, netting a 25% share according to my own sites' statistics. Firefox...
Upgrading to Hardy Heron
I have upgraded a couple of computers to Hardy Heron this last week. My desktop machine at work (Dell 620) went nearly flawlessly. The only hitch was weird screen resolution on one of my two monitors. That was fixed with...
A Few Hours that I Wish I had Back
Well, occasionally I have to be reminded that you should just was pick your battles. I just wasted several hours on a comment board at the otherwise excellent Ziff-Davis website. The subject was Ed Bott, Windows worshipper, and his gleeful...
Ready to Try Ubuntu? Here are 20 Reasons Why You Should.
Twenty Reasons Why You Should Try Ubuntu It makes Steve Ballmer very, very mad.The proponents of Ubuntu aren't in it for the money.If you're a Baby Boomer, picture Microsoft as The Man.It has the most newbie-friendly forum out there. Seriously,...
From Windows to Ubuntu
Ubuntu, with its Synaptics Package Manager (and command line apt-get), was the breakthrough in simplicity I needed to finally take the Linux plunge as my operating system of choice. Adding and removing programs was as simple as checking boxes. Dependencies were solved on the fly. And the operating system felt as comfortable as an old shoe within a few days of using it.
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