I’m writing this because I found out that many Linux newbie still prefer to use Red Hat Linux 9 compared to Fedora Core distribution. Red Hat Linux 9 has been released in 2003, and between that year and at the time of this writing, Red Hat Linux 9 has been superseded by almost 6 newer […]
I forgot where I found this joke, but I find it funny when people use Unix command to relay jokes. alias sex “updatedb; locate; talk; date; cd; strip; look; touch; finger; unzip; uptime; gawk; head; apt-get install condom; mount; fsck; gasp; more; yes; yes; yes; more; umount; apt-get remove –purge condom; make clean; sleep” p/s: […]
Remember the Mac advertisement about PC and Mac from Apple? Here’s a spoof video made by Novell that adds Linux to the scene. [coolplayer width=”425″ height=”350″ autoplay=”0″ loop=”0″ charset=”utf-8″ download=”1″ mediatype=””] PC,Mac and Linux [/coolplayer] Download the high quality video from : Mac vs. PC: How Would Linux Fit? [tags]linux,mac,windows,pc, computer,opensource,novell[/tags]
Ian Murdock (notable as the Debian GNU/Linux founder) decided to join Sun Microsystem as head of Operating System platform strategy. He states that Sun is a company that he always loved and it is an opportunity that he couldn’t pass up. Read the official announcement from Ian Murdock’s blog.
Those who are familiar with Debian-based system with know a thing or two about apt-get. apt-get is a wonderful tool that simplifies package management in Debian and Ubuntu derived Linux distro, be it software installation, security updates, upgrades, software removal and searches, apt-get does wonders in daily computer management. However some linux distro (Ubuntu, obviously) […]
Wonder how I missed this this peculiar RFC, RFC 2324 : Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. It was brought out by Toydi a while ago when we were having discussion about REST implementation. The RFC provides specification for a protocol based on HTTP, which can be use to send signal to a coffee maker […]