Slashdot links to a fascinating report, Creating A Super-Router (For Free), once again highlighting the power of Open Source Software. Linksys uses the Linux OS as the basis for many of their routers, and therefore they must publish the source code for their software. A number of clever programmers have added modifications, enhancements and improvements to the software, giving it additional capabilities or fixing performance nits that might not have been economically feasible for LinkSys to fix and support.
Tag Archives | Linux
Why Python?
Eric S. Raymond tells the tale of when he first, reluctantly, tried Python, and his surprising discoveries.
Central NH Linux Users Group meeting tonight.
Off to the Central NH Linux Users Group (a chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group) tonight for a demo of Ruby and Mepis.
InfoWorld highlights the Linux 2.6 kernel, SuSe and RedHat strategies
The King Kong metaphor is a stretch at best, and fortunately isn’t taken to it’s ultimate conclusion – “Twas Beauty killed the beast” – but rather just dropped in this editor’s letter that introduces cover feature articles on Linux in this issue of InfoWorld: Linux as King Kong – Infoworld Staff. The Mydoom worm that raced across the Internet last week is only the latest — and craziest — evidence of the passion surrounding Linux.
Apple offers repairs for iBooks, customers unhappy
Ars Technica posts: Apple announces iBook repair program. “Apple today launched a repair program that will cover some iBooks which have suffered from the widespread logic board and display problems.” A little too late for this fellow, an Apple OS X to Linux switchback, who reports on OSDir “Having Bitten the Forbidden Fruit, it Bit Me Back. Six Times” linked via OSNews: ”
I simply can’t bear the pain of the hardware vendor lock-in anymore.”
Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit … Microsoft
Slashdot references a Seattle PI newspaper article concluding… Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit … Microsoft
I think the real crime here, and all computer companies do it, is not the sponsoring of the studies. It’s the setup: carefully crafting a comparison so it looks fair to those not carefully analyzing it, and then trumpeting the results as if they apply to all situations. Slashdot poster cite one of the silliest ones: that a cluster of Windows machines is a cheaper web server than a Linux-based mainframe. Well, duh. C’mon, guys, you can do a better job of appearing to play fairly than that! That’s pitiful.
KDE on Cygwin on Windows!
KDE on Cygwin: KDE 3.1.4 Available From OSNews. Pretty neat! Run Linux apps under KDE/Cygwin on Windows.
Saint Babbage
After a long, virtuous life in which he never used a 2-digit field to represent the year, a programmer died and was met at the Pearly Gates by none other than Saint Babbage himself.
As they walked down the hall in Programmer Heaven, they came to a door, and he looked inside to see lots of programmers busily working, and the walls were covered with user manuals, every one different.
“Oh, that’s Linux heaven,” said Saint Babbage. “We gave them all the manuals they could possibly dream of, well formatted and professionally prepared, answering any possible question they might have.”
The programmer looked in the door to the next room, and it, too, was full of happy looking programmers typing and merrily computing away. The shelves on the walls were absolutely crammed full of boxes of commercial software. He looked Saint Babbage, and Saint Babbage said “That’s OS/2 heaven. They finally get decent app support.”
“But we have to be quiet going past the next door, OK?” The programmer nodded, and the two tip-toed past another door. Yet another room filled with happy programmers.
Once they were well away from the door, the programmer said, “What was that all about?”
Saint Babbage nodded knowingly, and replied, “That’s Macintosh Heaven. They think they’re the only ones up here.”
Stephen C. Den Best at http://whining.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$24
Dyne:bolic
There are more Linux distributions than hours in the day to try them all, but here’s an innovative one you might want to look at: Dyne:bolic is a single-CD bootable disk focused on multimedia applications – streaming sound, video processing, image rendering and manipulation. If multimedia is your thing and you’ve been thinking about checking out Linux, here’s a free and painless way to give it a try. And check out the easy, fast and reliable BitTorrent link on the download page – I’ll be one of many hosts for the weekend.
The one thing the matrix could not eliminate…
Said Neo to The Architect.
David Kirkpatrick in Fortune:
What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating system? They’re all manifestations of a key trend of our time: the shift in power away from centralized institutions and toward the individual ÷ from the center to the edge.
“I agree. But it’s also from the few to the many, from supply to demand, from controlled to networked. And on the far side of each “to,” autonomy. The ability to initiate, to form and join associations, to do for themselves. To have and make up their own minds.”
“Choice. This is about choice.” — The Doc Searls Weblog