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The Top 9 Linux Stories in 2009

In: General

Wrap your head around this: In a couple of hours, the 90’s will be 20 years ago! Yup, its scary I know. But hey think of it this way: in 1990 we didn’t even have Linux, and in 2000 Linux looks like a crippled OS compared to today’s Linux. So its all good.
Here I compiled [...]

I don’t know about you, but when ever a computer screen appears in a movie or series I instantly focus on the interface, trying to glean what they have installed on the device. Even better, when possible, I pause and try to analyze and read the damn thing. We dugg up 7 instances of KDE [...]

Will The Fake Linus Torvalds Please Stand Up

In: General

Inspired by the popular Fake Steve Jobs blog, The Linux Foundation invited 4 prominent Linux industry leaders to guest tweet as Linus Torvalds. Users are invited to vote for their favorite fake Linus. The winner and all 4 fake Linus Trovalds will be revealed at LinuxCon 2009.
They also made a hilarious promotion video parodying Eminem’s [...]

13 Linux Graffiti Art From Around The World

In: Eye Candy, General

Us Linux users are very passionate about our operating system. We get into flame wars with others, push it down other’s throats (which we don’t condone,) blog about, work feverishly in converting, and finally “vandalize” our cities.
Here are 13 Linux and Open Source graffiti art I found on the Interwebs. I tried to figure out [...]

Back To Basics: Identify Your Computer Ports

In: General

Martin Owens over at DoctorMo’s blog designed an impressive set of visuals detailing a wide range of computer ports. Any self-respecting geek should know these, they do come in handy from time to time:

Serial Port: A serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time
PS/2 Connector: Is used [...]

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