The Linuxologist

This blog hasn’t been neglected for quite some time, and been feeling really guilty about it. So lets kick off  our emergence with some humor:

Here is the full line in case you want to try it in your terminal:
who girl; look; talk; date; strip; touch; unzip; finger; head; mount; uptime; fsck; more; more; yes; yes; [...]

One of the many tired myths about Linux is that it’s very difficult to install software. Many argue why should they type in a command instead of can just clicking next, next, check a box, next, and one more next? However Windows isn’t really as clear cut as they try to make it sound to [...]

MG Siegler of TechCrunch noticed something funny today. Linux and Microsoft were holding peace tweets! Well not exactly, but on the 1st of July Microsoft decided that it should start tweeting (finally?). The guy behind the Linux Twitter account, apparently a guy from Bangladesh, decided to welcome Microsoft on Twitter.

Almost a day later, Microsoft decided [...]

Well at least according to Dell’s website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft’s latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!

Update: Here is the original Dell website. The error is still up. Not fixed. Doesn’t matter, print screen already did the damage
Update 2: After 5 days from the original post, Dell finally fixed [...]

So it has been over a month since my last post and me moving to America, and my only connection to the world is a measly Dell mini 12 netbook that Intel somehow severely screwed up when it comes to Linux video drivers. The situation isn’t exactly inspiring me to blog and do all the [...]