I’ve been looking for the ultimate in geek furniture for quite sometime and bumped into a neat peice of furniture released today by Lazyboy. It is not the perfect peice of furniture since Microsoft has a hand in it, but I am writing a letter to all of the Linux Companies now to get that fixed. Complete with built in phone jacks, wireless keyboard, a fold out stand for a laptop and only $1299.00, the E-Cliner is ready for web surfing and computer fun.
I’ll take whats behind door number 2!
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in General | Posted on 09-01-2001
There was an article posted to Yahoo.Com about tech companies offering employees gizmos, gagdets, and other awards to retain them in the company instead of cash bonuses and stock options.
Zdnet.Com is running an article about Linux loosing its innocence and no longer being a novelty. The article will not make you run out and buy the book but it does bring up a few good points about the current state of Linux (althought I think there are some more basic key things that need to be done) and what needs to be accomplished. As the author puts it:
“The heydays of pure Linux plays have faded.”
New Unstable Directory for Debian
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Linux, Open Source | Posted on 03-01-2001
This is a little old news but several people I have talked to haven’t heard so here it is. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list file and change the word potato or woody to “sid”. Sid is the latest most unstable release of the Debian Linux distribution. Basically if you want to run all of the latest updates to all of the current Linux packages use “sid”. If you are running a server, point it it to potato (current stable).
Linux 2.4 Kernel pre-released
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Linux, Programming | Posted on 03-01-2001
One of our readers sent us this story posted on Yahoo which covers the pre-release of the 2.4 kernel for Linux. Linus Torvalds states in the release that he isn’t projecting the 2.4 official release however we have to note this is the 4th time rumors of the official release have been spread.This isn’t a bad thing that it is taking this long. I think most of the Linux community will agree that we don’t want the new kernel unless it is stable and very well debugged. I have been playing with 2.4test<1-10> for awhile now and it is only getting better. If there is one wish I had this New Years it is that whoever comes up with these hardware standards would put it into a Linux kernel before the product is released. I know it is wishful thinking but surely we could have standards for the standards…?