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Eight Distros a Week: Fedora 7 / Fedora 8
[This is the third in an eight-part series on distros I use. These observations are based on distros running on one or more of the following hardware: Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop, an brandless Pentium...
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Eight Distros a Week: Epilogue
Eight distros. Seven days. One tired blogger. In seven words, that pretty much wraps up the “Eight Distros a Week” series, named after (of course) the Beatles song “Eight Days a Week.” I have used more...
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Changing teams
Growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens, my father grew up a New York Giants fan — the baseball Giants that played at the Polo Grounds, not so much the football Giants (although I believe he never...
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Res publica non dominetur
With the passing of legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, I was reminded of the IBM “Prodigy” ad in which he appears. “Prodigy,” quite frankly, is the best tech ad ever — ever (sorry, “1984,”...
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Blog-free November
Larry the Free Software Guy — who doesn’t really like to refer to himself in the third person, but would rather do that than start this a blog post with “I” — gave you all a gift with a blog-free...
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Transcript: Larry Cafiero’s press conference
Linux for the GNU South – Attend if you can. Editor’s note: On a cloudy Monday in Felton, California, Larry Cafiero held a press conference at the solar-powered Felton Fire Station for the purpose of...
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Unpacked and back, but Microsoft is still here
Next up: OSCON. Get there if you can, and give them my regards because I can’t make it this year For those few of you who might have missed this blog, I do apologize. As many of you know, I have moved...
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The far and the wide
Next up: OSCON. Get there if you can, and give them my regards because I can’t make it this year A wide assortment of issues and items have cropped up in the last several days, all of which are...
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News flash: Sky NOT falling
I wasn’t going to weigh in on this issue because it was really is not the huge, Chicken Little-esque matter some people — some people I once held in high esteem — are making it out to be. I’ve...
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Doing things right
A couple of days ago, I had read — but hadn’t confirmed — that Red Hat’s Jaroslav Reznik had been chosen to be the Fedora Project Manager, finally filling the unfillable shoes left empty by Robyn...
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