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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
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
I’m Not Alone on Rolling Release
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t understand all the technical details, but I find the Autopackage project is trying to overcome the problems I’ve tried to point out: What’s a desktop Linux platform? Why do we need one? … Continue reading
Vignettes 1
A collection of small thoughts. They are connected, but can be considered individually. 1. The Democratic Party was hijacked about four decades ago. It had been a fairly conservative, rural oriented bunch of old men, but became home to American … Continue reading
Talking Past Each Other
Why did I know it would happen? I got some of my views on rolling release published on a webzine. Immediately, comments began to appear, as I had hoped. That means people are reading it and thinking about it. Except, … Continue reading