Ya well most tech savvy people already know this, after all it’s common knowledge. But it’s nice to see the difference visually, and would probably explain the difference to the less technically endowed amongst us, in more ways than one!
In a recent very popular blog post of mine, Etymology of A Distro, I mentioned that I convinced a friend to name her cat “Gentoo”. And since we all know that the Internet is basically made out of tubes and cat pictures, I decided to treat it as a dump truck and load all the Gentoo The Cat pictures! Watch out, your “internets” will get delayed by a few more seconds.
Ubuntu has established itself as one of the most user friendly and easy Linux distro out there. So much expectation revolves around this release, and finally the wait is over! Let’s have a quick run down on what Hardy brings on the table, and how it weighs against these expectations.
While surfing the tubes, I stumbled onto this picture. Apparently some dude tried to scan his Ubuntu using the xponlinescanner utility. Lo and behold, some 3 XP viruses pwned his Ubuntu (what a shame). He better watch out and resolve the Spyware.IEMonstor.b virus, it’s critical! Ya right, LOLZ!
Sebastian Bilbeau authored a script that enables you to Google straight from the comfort of your command line interface! How sweet is that? The script will give you the links of the first 11 result in Google, nothing more nothing less. Meaning don’t expect it to give you titles and description, very rudimentary stuff I »
Switching to Linux can be very daunting, most seasoned Linux users experienced that first hand. After all, at some point they were also “noobs”. However, the Linux community has excelled in making the switch for beginners as easy as possible by providing guides, howtos, tweaks, and general advocacy articles. When I first made the switch »
Recently a Gizmodo story got a lot of coverage on Digg and other social news site, showing pictures of a Mac running 150 Apps and a teeny weeny dock. Of course the Windows fanbois couldn’t just stay silent and not prove that Mac ain’t got shit against them, so Daniel Smith submitted a video showing »
Note: I changed the title of the article from “Etymology of A Linux Distro” to the current because a lot of readers pointed out that it’s not appropriate to have BSD systems, and rightly so, on a Linux list. Computing is fun! Well at least thats until Microsoft drove it out of the equation. I »
