Madpengiun has an Ubuntu 5.10 preview wherein the reviewer tries to find out why the cult of Ubuntu is so fanaticle: Every community has its heroes. From the beginning of time, we’ve all needed that special something to grasp onto and worship in one way or another. The Linux community is no different. Sure, there [...]
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The Ultimate Linux Based Car PC
August 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cars & Tuning, Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Somebody has built The Ultimate Linux Car PC: I am throwing up this page because I have yet to see a decent LINUX based CarPC that shows the potential of what can be achieved if the effort is put forth. I have spent the last month or so tweaking the software as well as fabricating [...]
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Doom Ported To iPod
August 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets, Video Games
Some crazy dude has ported Doom to the iPod. Of course you first have to install Linux to run it. The controls are clunky and the framerate is probably shitty but this is a really cool hack nontheless.
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Why New Operating Systems Won’t Stand A Chance :-(
July 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Computers In General, Linux, Microsoft
OSNews has an interesting opinion piece on the current state of the operating system “scene” and how it’s difficult for alternative OSes (read: Not Linux, OSX or Windows) to gain a foothold: There are many ‘really alternative’ operating systems currently in existence. Most of them are purely for research, personal enjoyment or as a coding [...]
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Linus Torvalds Thoughts On Microsoft
June 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment · Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
Good Morning Silicon Valley has done an interview with Linus Torvalds on what he thinks of Microsoft and where he thinks it’s going: Microsoft really is a fairly interesting vendor in this space. Unlike most proprietary vendors, it’s one of the very few ones whose bread and butter comes directly from its commodity market, and [...]
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Play Videos On Your iPod!
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Looks like the iPodLinux have done what Apple couldn’t (or doesn’t want to) do. They’ve added video support to the iPod. The video player from the iPodLinux project will do 24-bit, uncompressed AVI files at iPod-native screen resolution only. You can download the binaries and the test video via the Read link. Demonstration video can [...]
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A Brief History Of The GUI
May 5th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Computers In General, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Microsoft
Ars Technica has written a fascinating brief history of the GUI. Excerpt: The history of the development of the graphical user interface is a long and complicated tale. While it is easy to find individuals like Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay who made great contributions to advancing the state of the art, the truth of [...]
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Brief History Of The Linux Kernel Archives
May 3rd, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Internet, Linux
Kerneltrap has written an interesting brief history of http://kernel.org. Excerpt: Peter Anvin has been involved with Linux since nearly the beginning. When Linus Torvalds purchased his first computer on which he began writing the Linux kernel, the state-of-the art PC with 4 megabytes of RAM and running at 33 megahertz was too expensive for him [...]
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SCO’s Revenue Continues To Decline
April 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, IBM, Linux, News
Good news for all of us wanting to live in a free virtual world. Eweek reports that SCO’s revenue is continuing to decline. Excerpt: The SCO Group Inc. has been locked in battles with IBM and other companies over its Unix intellectual property rights, whether any of its Unix code has been stolen into the [...]
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Linus To Drop Bitkeeper
April 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Linux
Linus Torvalds is looking for a new SCM for his project’s source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper. ‘I’ve decided to not use BK (BitKeeper) mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives,’ Torvalds said in a posting. ‘Rather than continuing things as normal, I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like
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