July 2009
How The Internet Works
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 11:07:20 PM Filed under
makeuseof.com: Once you finish this article, I’m sure you’ll be amazed that the Internet works at all! It’s easy to complain about slow download speeds, or lost e-mail, but, geez, it’s the Internet!
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Why I built a Ubuntu PC out of an Old Carpet Cleaner
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 11:05:05 PM Filed under

networkworld.com: PC cases come in many form factors, but they're all basically boxes that lack personality. This doesn't have to be the case (pun intended), as my Carpet Cleaner PC very well proves. Yes, this is a working Ubuntu PC built out of an old Bissell Carpet Machine.
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Intel Linux Graphics On Ubuntu Still Flaky
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:08:28 PM Filed under
phoronix.com: Back in May we shared that the Ubuntu Intel graphics performance was still in bad shape after testing out very early Ubuntu 9.10 packages. Months have passed, but we have just carried out some new tests using Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3.
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Ballmer: 'We're cheaper than Apple! (But not Linux)"
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:06:33 PM Filed under
news.cnet.com: Whenever Microsoft starts to look like a company that is ready to play fair with open source, along comes its CEO, Steve Ballmer, to ruin all the goodwill the rest of the company has created.
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Go Back to School With Linux: Part Three
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:05:05 PM Filed under
ostatic.com/blog: Today marks the final installment in our series that takes a look at educational versions of popular Linux distributions that are ideal for students returning to class in the next few weeks. Today let's take a look at Debian Jr.
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Skype shutdown: where are free software and free protocols?
Submitted by fsmag on Friday 31st of July 2009 07:22:30 PM Filed under
Free software is definitely going strong in some areas, especially in the server market. However, there are other areas where free software and free protocols have failed.
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Twitter, Linux, Red Hat, Microsoft "honored" with Pwnie Awards
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 07:19:48 PM Filed under
networkworld.com: Think of the annual Pwnie Awards delivered at the Black Hat conference as a geek version of the Oscars – if they were combined with the tongue-in-cheek Razzies that celebrate the worst of Hollywood.
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Sony Pictures Imageworks Launches Open Source Program
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 07:17:43 PM Filed under
prnewswire.com: Sony Pictures Imageworks is launching an open source development program, it was announced today by Imageworks' chief technology officer, Rob Bredow. Five technologies will be released initially:
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Gaze at the stars with Stellarium
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 07:15:50 PM Filed under
dedoimedo.com: We have had lots of programs featured here on Dedoimedo, but we never really focused on educational software. Until today. I'm going to present Stellarium, a beautiful, pleasant, addictive open-source planetarium software.
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1,000,000,000: That’s a Lot of Zeros!
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 31st of July 2009 07:13:56 PM Filed under
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| What is GNU/Linux Copypasta?
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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Ben Widawsky: Framebuffer Modifiers Part 1
In a now pretty well established tradition on my part, I am posting on things I no longer work on!
I gave a talk on modifiers at XDC 2017 and Linux Plumbers 2017 audio only. It was always my goal to have a blog post accompany the work. Relatively shortly after the talks, I ended up leaving graphics and so it dropped on the priority list.
I'm splitting this up into two posts. This post will go over the problem, and solutions. The next post will go over the implementation details.
| Linux Lite 5.4 Will Be Based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, Release Candidate Ready for Testing
Linux Lite is a user-friendly distro that aims to bring more ex-Windows users to the Linux and Open Source ecosystem. The new release of this Ubuntu derived distribution, Linux Lite 5.4, will be based on Canonical’s recently released Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system.
But Linux Lite 5.4 will ship with the long-term supported Linux 5.4 LTS kernel instead of the much newer Linux kernel 5.8 from Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. However, users will be able to install any other kernel they want up to the recently released Linux kernel 5.11 from the software repositories with just two commands.
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