Analogy: Linux is to Turntables as Windows is to CD Players
Walt Mossberg's column in the Wall Street Journal today (available here) was especially interesting today because he tackled a subject he rarely touches on: Linux. Dell has recently started selling some computers with the option of having Ubuntu Linux...
Tags: cd · linux · turntables · vinyl · walt mossberg · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 13, 2007 10:05 PM · Permalink
Analogy: Ubuntu is to WordPress as openSUSE is to Movable Type
I was having a conversation the other day about Linux and blogging software when I was struck by certain parallels in some of the software I use. It helps explain why I chose the Linux distribution I did and the...
Tags: blogging · community · linux · movable type · opensuse · ubuntu · wordpress
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 7, 2007 11:30 PM · Permalink
Simplifying the Setup: Dual-boot no more
I've been running dual-boot systems since December 2005. On both my desktop and laptop, I had a Windows partition and an openSUSE Linux partition. After using that basic setup for the past year and a half, it's become clear...
Tags: dual-boot · linux · opensuse · vinyl · windows · x86-64
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 27, 2007 7:07 AM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: What if Linux and Windows had a wedding (13/30)
13 June 2007 What if Linux and Windows had a weddingby Daniel R Stout What if Linux and Windows had a wedding and all the companies were in attendance that night there would be a bedding and the developers would...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · children · frankenstein · linux · poem · poetry · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 13, 2007 10:34 PM · Permalink
With SCO out of the picture, Microsoft attacks open source itself
Well, if you haven't heard the news, Microsoft wants to sue Linux and open source software out of existence. In the past, MSFT's strategies haven't worked too well. The SCO thing was pretty much a joke from the beginning once...
Tags: fortune · free software foundation · gnu · linux · microsoft · sco · software patents
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 14, 2007 7:58 PM · Permalink
The best of all possible fonts: Subpixel hinting on openSUSE
As an openSUSE Linux user and a budding typographer, I'm always interested in ways to make screen-rendered text more legible. You may have a similar obsession with the clarity of text. Or maybe I'm the only person this side of...
Tags: fonts · freetype2 · gnome · kde · linux · opensuse · suse
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 10, 2007 7:47 PM · Permalink
Where have you been all my life, Scribus?
I was looking at this entry over on Vichar's Linux blog and was amazed. It's basically a list of a lot of open source alternatives to proprietary software. It's a very excellent list, and the software listed there is...
Tags: desktop publishing · linux · open source · opensuse · pdfcast · scribus · suse
Posted by Daniel Stout on April 8, 2007 3:52 PM · Permalink
Glyn’s modest proposal
Glyn Moody has A Modest Proposal for Michael Dell. Dell recently launched a site called IdeaStorm that's based on the idea of user interaction. Like Digg, people can submit ideas to the site, and then people place votes on the...
Tags: dell · glyn moody · ibm · linux · michael dell · open source
Posted by Daniel Stout on March 4, 2007 10:01 AM · Permalink
Flash Player 9.0 available for Linux (plus an MT update)
Second things first tonight as Six Apart announced a slight update of Movable Type. The new version — 3.34 — has some security fixes plus native support for FastCGI. I upgraded ManuEnvi to 3.34 tonight and did the configuration for...
Tags: flash · flash player 9.0 · linux · movable type · mt · opensuse · six apart
Posted by Daniel Stout on January 17, 2007 11:43 PM · Permalink
Open Source Christmas
We saw the Christmas Pageant of Peace at the National Christmas Tree in Washington DC. DC is festive this time of year. We did our Christmas shopping there and had a good time of it. We hope your Holidays...
Tags: amarok · linux · mac os x · national christmas tree · opensuse · pageant of peace · vista · washington dc
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 26, 2006 10:36 PM · Permalink
The easy way to get openSUSE 10.2
Just as an example of how cool Linux is to use, it's very easy to do huge downloads. If you're wanting to get the DVD image for openSUSE 10.2, a simple command will do the trick. In Windows, if you're...
Tags: download · getting the job done · linux · manager · opensuse · wget · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 7, 2006 8:25 PM · Permalink
openSUSE Linux 10.2 is ready
Andreas Jaeger sent an email to the openSUSE mailing list last night to announce that the new version of openSUSE Linux, that is, version 10.2 has gone gold and is ready for release. Our build folks have created the first...
Tags: 10.2 · 2.6.19 · ext3 · ext4 · kernel · linux · opensuse · reiser · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 2, 2006 10:12 AM · Permalink
In case you were wondering: What Would Bill Do?
[via Linux and Open Source Blog]...
Tags: bill gates · linux · ubuntu · what would bill do · wwbd
Posted by Daniel Stout on November 6, 2006 10:02 PM · Permalink
The fair shake: Ubuntu vs. SUSE Linux
I hadn't really given Ubuntu a fair shake the last time I looked at it. I decided to go another round with Ubuntu to see what it was all about. Ubuntu, as you may know, is a flavor of Linux,...
Tags: dapper drake · linux · suse · suse linux · ubuntu
Posted by Daniel Stout on October 25, 2006 8:06 PM · Permalink
Get the desktop of the future now with Xgl and Compiz
Ever since I installed SUSE Linux 10.1, I've heard rumblings from here and there about something cool called Xgl. I wondered what all the buzz was about. It had something to do with translucency, effects, spinning cubes. Well, I installed...
Tags: apple · ati · chris brown · compiz · linux · nvidia · opengl · opensuse · suse · suse linux · transparency · xgl
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 14, 2006 8:23 PM · Permalink
The biggest mistake you can make if you’re new to Linux
I'll be the first to admit that Linux appeals to the technically inclined. It also appeals to people who believe in the freedom of ideas. People are cruising along on their Mac OS X laptop or their Windows box, and...
Tags: linux · linux documentation project · mac os x · poweruser · suse · suse linux · switch · ubuntu · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 8, 2006 9:05 PM · Permalink
Taking Ubuntu to a Higher Power
Have you been feeling the blues lately? Been feeling like your life has no direction? Ask yourself this question: What OS would Jesus use? Why, Ubuntu Christian Edition! That's right. If you think there isn't enough spiritual firepower in...
Tags: gnome · gnomesword · ichthux · kde · linux · open source · ubuntu · ubuntu christian edition
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 30, 2006 10:13 PM · Permalink
The state of the 2006 Linux desktop
Interesting article over at DesktopLinux.com by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols entitled The state of the 2006 Linux desktop. He notes a sudden rise of people running Linux on their laptops over the summer. My unscientific survey revealed that about a third...
Tags: desktop linux · fedora · freespire · linux · red hat · suse linux · ubuntu
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 21, 2006 6:56 AM · Permalink
Linux is Beautiful, or Why Robert Scoble Needs to Take Another Look
Robert Scoble wrote an entry about what he sees as a reason Linux won't be adopted by the masses as their desktop operating system: the fonts. I couldn't disagree more with him. I'm looking at Gnome via SUSE Linux 10.1...
Tags: fonts · gnome · linux · microsoft · open source · open suse · robert scoble · scoble · suse · suse linux · typography · vista · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 19, 2006 1:06 AM · Permalink
Time to up that Ubuntu installation
linux today is reporting that Ubuntu has updated it's 6.06 version called dapper drake to 6.06.1. You can get a new CD for free from ShipIt. If you're like Faust and using the tiny Xubuntu distribution, you can grab that...
Tags: dapper drake · linux · ubuntu · xubuntu
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 11, 2006 6:55 AM · Permalink
Planet SUSE: Keeping up with the geeks
You all know my love for SUSE Linux. It's my platform of choice. I'm glad too that Novell has switched the default install to Gnome from KDE. As I've said before, KDE is like running a Windows clone. Why...
Tags: developers · linux · open source · planet suse · suse · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 1, 2006 7:08 AM · Permalink
OpenDarwin shuts down: Mac OS X still proprietary
When Apple first released Mac OS X in 2000, they had the goal of seeding the operating system in open source style. The Darwin project released, and continues to release, the foundations for Mac OS X under an open source...
Tags: apple · darwin · linux · mac os x · monopoly · open source · opendarwin · winmac
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 25, 2006 9:25 PM · Permalink
An O’Reilly book on SUSE Linux? Indeed!
There are a variety of books out there for SUSE Linux, but it's only just now that legendary tech publisher O'Reilly has chimed in with a title of its own. SUSE Linux: A Complete Guide to Novell's Community Distribution...
Tags: books · chris brown · linux · o'reilly · suse · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 25, 2006 6:56 AM · Permalink
Good things come in threes: Tweaking always
Manufactured Environments is an active, living site. I'm often looking for better and newer ways to code things on the site. I made three tweaks to the site today that I wanted to give you the lowdown (down low?) on....
Tags: archives · fonts · linux · rss · suse linux · tags · technorati
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 22, 2006 6:36 PM · Permalink
Geeks Gone Bad: Switching from Mac OS X to Linux
You'll first note my lengthy and highly entertaining post from December 2005 entitled Celebrity Deathmatch: Windows XP vs SUSE Linux. In that article, I talked about my switch from Mac OS X and Windows XP over to SUSE Linux...
Tags: linux · mac os x · opensuse · suse · suse linux · ubuntu · windows xp
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 19, 2006 9:26 PM · Permalink
SUSE Linux 10.1 to be released tomorrow
openSUSE has the scoop: SUSE Linux 10.1 is due to be released tomorrow. There are two varieties that you can download for free or buy. There's SUSE Linux 10.1 the commercial product from Novell costing $59.99. And then there...
Tags: 10.1 · desktop linux · linux · novell · open-source · opensuse · oss · suse · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 10, 2006 7:23 PM · Permalink
Linu(x/s) Anecdotes
Back in 1998, Lars Wirzenius gave a talk at Linux Expo. He recounts the early days of Linux and of its progenitor Linus Torvalds. An amusing read certainly. Wirzenius was Torvalds' officemate at the University of Helsinki so he would...
Tags: lars wirzenius · linus torvalds · linux · metafilter
Posted by Daniel Stout on February 17, 2006 9:56 AM · Permalink
Why choose Linux over Windows?
Often when I'm walking down the street, people come up to me and say, "Dan, I've been afraid to try Linux. Robert Scoble has me whipped. I've been using Windows for so long, I don't know anything else." It...
Tags: grub · half-life2 · linux · microsoft · novell · opensuse · suse · suse linux · ubuntu · windows · winxp
Posted by Daniel Stout on February 11, 2006 10:23 PM · Permalink
Celebrity Deathmatch: Windows XP vs SUSE Linux
Long before there was Windows XP. Long before there was Windows 95. There was an operating system that rose up out of the Finnish primordial ooze. A young man named Linus Torvalds had the pluck to want to write his...
Tags: cleartype · debian · desktop linux · fedora · gcc · gnome · gnu · linus torvalds · linux · mac os x · microsoft · novell · opensuse · red hat · suse · suse linux · windows · winxp
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 25, 2005 5:39 PM · Permalink
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