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Personal Preference: Debian Lenny AMD64
A couple of months ago, one of my clients asked me why I liked Linux so much. We discussed things we liked and disliked about various operating systems. This was no clueless user, but she was searching the options for … Continue reading
The Wide Gulf: Techies and Ordinary Users
I seriously doubt any of my clients will ever be “Linux newbies” for the simple reason too many Linux people assume “newbie” means someone who will become one of the techies. That is, the term seems to assume this person … Continue reading
Linux Elitism: It’s a Fact
(NOTE: This post is getting hits almost three years later. Many Linux fans still don’t get it. More explanation can be found here.) Context: I use Linux. It’s the best there is, particularly for the way I work. I thank … Continue reading
In Over My Head: Blinux
For the past couple of years, I’ve been doing what little I could to assist a friend of mine going blind from Macular Degeneration. He managed to obtain some help from the Veterans Administration, so it’s not as if we … Continue reading
Forcing Upgrades: Not Just Open Source
Just to recap: I’ve stated complaints about the broader Open Source development culture, in which there is a lack of support for older releases which work well. This is matched by entirely too little backward compatibility. All of this is … Continue reading
Mozilla Craziness
The generic Seamonkey 64-bit download from Mozilla.org runs the new beta 64-bit Flashplayer from Adobe on CentOS. So here we are, CentOS 5.2 for x86_64. I installed the latest beta release of Flashplayer for 64-bit Linux. By “install” I mean … Continue reading
No Paradise
I don’t balk at eating crow. When you don’t take yourself too seriously, you can laugh with those who laugh at you. No sooner do I announce I’ve decided to go with openSUSE 11.0, as less broken than 11.1, and … Continue reading
Searching for the Linux of Mass Appeal
As a computer service volunteer and Linux advocate, how can I get the average computer user to adopt Linux? This has nothing to do with what I happen to like, but what I find actually doing the job. Having to … Continue reading
Tinkering: Mail Servers on the Desktop
In my early experience with Linux, I learned The Way for email was to run an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) in the background, a fetching service, and did email from the commandline. My preferred setup was Postfix, Fetchmail and Pine. … Continue reading
CentOS: KDE Upgrade the Hard Way
There is one feature of CentOS I dislike very much: the tendency to drag in a lot of 32-bit packages as unnecessary dependencies on a 64-bit system. I found the bundled version of KDE 3.5.4 one of the more badly … Continue reading