Linus Torvalds has announced that the Linux kernel will make the jump from the 2.6 series to the 2.8.0 kernel. Does this mean that there will be no 2.7.0 kernel release? I guess so, there was 2.4, 2.5 and the current 2.6.x series, now they will make the jump over 2.7 to a 2.8.0 series. … Read more
I am using Lubuntu 10.10 to browse the Internet right now to test out that very good and useful distribution of Linux and I needed to install the Adobe flash plugin for Chromium. I downloaded the tar.gz file containing the plugin for Linux and unpacked it by typing tar -xvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz and then I had … Read more
Compiling software in a distribution such as Gentoo, being part of the way the distribution works, makes it a fun task to do. Compiling the Linux kernel with genkernel all is very fast and simpler than the old way of having to compile the kernel with make -j4 && make modules then typing make modules_install … Read more
This is the GDM theme I am using on Gentoo, this theme is the best amongst the many themes I got with this ebuild. And it looks very nice and professional. I used the login in a new window option in Gnome which uses Xnest to open a window displaying the Gnome desktop manager to … Read more
Performing a kernel upgrade on Gentoo GNU/Linux How best to upgrade the Gentoo kernel. Installing a vanilla kernel for the Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution is very easy. This is necessary when a kernel upgrade is required. Just install the vanilla kernel source from kernel.org and then unpack the sources into /usr/src/linux as shown below. I am … Read more
My computer is now running Gentoo once again, I installed the x86_64 stage3 tarball and the latest portage tarball and installed the system from within a chroot using my Ubuntu 11.04 distribution. The installation was different from the last time I installed a Gentoo system, I am using newer hardware this time, but now it … Read more
Hello there. I have just finished installing the vanilla 2.6.36-rc6 kernel in my Gentoo installation in a chroot, I tried to boot the standard Gentoo kernel and I got an error after the “Starting Mdev” line that said that the kernel could not find the root block device, but the file-system drivers for ext4 were … Read more
There is a story over on Slashdot about the 20 year anniversary of the Linux operating system. Linux has come a long way in the 20 year history and now it is a very robust and reliable operating system. Since Linus Torvalds needed a free version of the proprietary UNIX operating system that existed at … Read more
http://www.securitronlinux.com/linux/lc/ This is a library of PDF files that will help new users of Linux set up their system and get to grips with the command line and Linux software. I uploaded these a while ago and I thought I would post about them again to alert my visitors that they are available. They are … Read more
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/V-3—You-Cant-Go-GNOME-Again-72266.html This is the Gnome 3 desktop I have been talking about, I have downloaded the OpenSuse based Live CD and I have actually tried it myself and I have to say it sucks royally. Look at this screenshot of the start menu, this is very hard to use at 1920×1440 pixels resolution, I can … Read more
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/high-performance-computing-on-gamer-pcs-part-2-the-software-choices.ars Just reading on Ars Technica about the HPU4Science scientific computation cluster that runs Ubuntu server to provide supercomputing cluster services to it`s users. Linux is the one choice for high performance computing, with 92% of the worlds supercomputers running on Linux. Linux or UNIX is a much better choice for server computing than Windows, … Read more
This is a screenshot of the FVWM Crystal desktop I am running on Debian Linux. This is the latest desktop I am trying out and it is the best so far, I was getting annoyed with the Enlightenment E17 desktop and I installed this instead and it is faster and very light on memory as … Read more
I was playing around with /bin/cat on my FreeBSD laptop and I typed this command. This is a useful trick to join mp3 files together in one long audio file. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Music$ cat Dune\ \(1983\)\ OST\ -\ Dune\ Prophecy\ \(Long\ Version\)-UWFm2LIYNjg.mp3 > ambient-winter.mp3jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Music$ cat Dune\ \(1983\)\ OST\ -\ Dune\ Prophecy\ \(Long\ Version\)-UWFm2LIYNjg.mp3 > ambient-winter.mp3 And now … Read more
http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/22/download-official-redhat-linux-iso-image/. The link above is to the Redhat 6.2 Linux distribution, the first version of Linux I used. It ran very well on a Celeron 600 with 64MB of RAM and integrated graphics. Linux has come so far since it was first released, the desktop has gotten even easier to use and with the release … Read more
I just discovered a very cool package that is available for the Debian Linux distribution, the GWorkspace desktop, the GNU Workspace manager. This depicted in the screenshot to the right is an interesting desktop that comes with a file manager and when loaded with Window Maker gives you a fast desktop and you can create … Read more
http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/archs-dirty-little-notso-secret/ Quoting from the website. Most distributions, even Windows, sign their packages so that when the computer downloads and installs them, it can check the signature to make sure the package is authentic – it hasn’t been tampered with on the server, or anywhere between the server and the local system. This mechanism has been … Read more
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-things-i-miss-about-old-school-linux/2309 The thing I miss the most about Linux is the coolness factor of having an operating system that is much better than Windows ’98 was and it supported your hardware without having to juggle disks installing drivers and installing virus scanners and other stuff to keep you safe on the Internet. The poster of … Read more
Richard Stallman is explaining in this video, why the Linux operating system is virus-free, essentially the main reason is the lower market penetration of Linux; compared to Windows which is used by just about every user and business in the world and therefore is a greater and easier target due to the lower security and … Read more
I am typing this in Gedit, running over ssh to my laptop, just like I was doing with Gentoo. Just by typing ssh -X 10.0.0.2 -l shoggoth you can connect to the other machine after the IP addresses are sorted out. Here is the kernel version I have, 2.6.34 is a good kernel, but I … Read more
I just bought the latest Linux Format DVD, and I tried to boot the Fedora Core 14 distribution on the disc and it would not work, it gave me an error to do with the compressed filesystem. But I got a copy of FreeBSD 8.1 and I will give that a try later and see … Read more