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Category Archives: Linux
Ballmerism
I love this interesting quote that I found on a recent CNN article: “We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we built it. … Continue reading
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Tagged FUD, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Redhat
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Gentoo: Learning from your mistakes…
Today, I had a “re-realization” as to why I enjoy working with Gentoo Linux so much. I enjoy, first of all, the challenge of learning something new, and I also enjoy the fact that I can do so by experimentation. … Continue reading
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Gentoo: XVnc Server + PAM = Broken
For some time I’ve been making use of the wonderful Xvnc Terminal Server Howto created by LinuxReviews.org. Unfortunately it appears as if the most recent update to pam from the gentoo portage has created an authentication issue. I’m … Continue reading
Gentoo 2004.3
I know, I know… This has been out for half a week already, but I thought I’d go ahead and post a quickie mentioning a noticable improvement that I found with the latest release. Grub’s ability to properly see SATA … Continue reading
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FireFox 1.0!
Mozilla FireFox 1.0 is official! Go and download it today: ftp.mozilla.org Linux – US English: Source or i686 Binary Windows – US English: Setup or Zip
Distrowatch.com on LinuxToday.com Boycott
I could not have worded my previous entry “Anti-Linux Microsoft ads on a Linux Site??” better than the most recent article posted in this weeks Distrowatch.com Newsletter.
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1 Day and Counting….
One day remains before the release of Firefox 1.0. While the release of Mozilla 1.0 was a great day in the world of OSS, the release of Firefox is even greater. I, along with many of my friends are very … Continue reading
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A Real “Get the Facts”…
Once again, as the open source community is more than willing to do, it has been found that some of marketing techniques used by Microsoft are blaitant twists of the real truth. I’m sure by now many of you have … Continue reading
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Anti-Linux Microsoft ads on a Linux Site??
I notice the posting on Distrowatch.com asking people to boycott LinuxToday.com. Now of course, I should have been from the show me state herself, as I obviously had to see that they really did have large postings of Microsoft ads … Continue reading
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Circular Dependency in Gentoo Portage Tree
This one was definitely interesting. I have both openldap and sasl support enabled via my ‘use flags’. This resulted in the emerging of OpenLDAP and Cyrus-SASL. OpenLDAP would fail to build because it couldn’t locate Cyrus-SASL, and Cyrus-SASL’s e-build reports OpenLDAP … Continue reading
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Tagged Circular Dependency, cyrus-sasl, emerge, Gentoo, ldap, openldap, sasl, use flags
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