Whiz bang gadgets and myself are usually not uttered in the same sentence. I’m pretty basic. I like simple desktops like XFCE and Openbox…I like plain things. Give me bread, cheese and water and I’m a happy man. Give me wine and I’m your friend for life : I’ve tried to simplify in the past few years and my c [...]
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The Palm Pre, Linux, and 4G
Whiz bang gadgets and myself are usually not uttered in the same sentence. I’m pretty basic. I like simple desktops like XFCE and Openbox…I like plain things. Give me bread, cheese and water and I’m a happy man. Give me wine and I’m your friend for life : I’ve tried to simplify in the past few years and my c [...]
Slackware and Zenwalk
I’ve been distro shopping lately. I had become complacent while working with PCLinuxOS because everything just works when using it. With nothing broken, I had nothing to fix This is a good thing, unless you want things to break every once in a while so you can learn to fix them. I know, I’m a glutton for punishment.
Afte [...]
A Little About Ubuntu
I’m not a hater of Ubuntu by any means. I think it’s done a ton of good for Linux. It’s opened many doors and perceptions of users everywhere. It’s available to more people than any other distribution in history. However, I do have a problem with some of rather “excitable” users in the Ubuntu community. [...]
I Used To Be Hardcore
I used to be hardcore…
I ran Slackware when it was on 400 floppies. I ran the 1.x kernel. I hacked channels on efnet in IRC for bragging rights. I waited all day long for wavs to download from a BBS. My game of choice used to be a MUD.
We grow up, we move on, and we get accustomed to a new standard.
It’s like that isn’t [...]
Self Musings
With Yet Another Linux Blog silently turning 4 years old this past December, I began to examine what I’ve posted over the years and have tried to take a step back to examine what I’ve accomplished here…first, from a design perspective. Please understand that these links go to the internet archive so they may take a while to [...]
World of Goo Linux Port Available
I previously spoke about the game “World of Goo” a few months ago on Yet Another Linux Blog. I was eagerly anticipating the release of a Linux port of the game and attempted to drum up support for the release of the game for the Linux platform. All the efforts of bloggers everywhere has paid off. Today, 2d Boy, the gaming studi [...]