Slackware: Is Systemd Inevitable?

by Dietrich Schmitz I recently wrote a story Systemd: The New Pulse Audio as regards the work undertaken by Red Hat and one employee +Lennart Poettering to improve Linux with a middleware daemon called systemd. Much press has been given to the story surrounding systemd putting the work into question. Still, the work progresses and continues to move forward and many Linux Distros have chosen to adopt it as others opt to take a 'wait...

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Confused by FuSE

by Dietrich Schmitz [Edit: 4/29/2013 2:00pm GMT-5 Comments on this post has been closed.] [Edit: 4/29/2013 6:00pm GMT-5 A correction to the below story has been made to reflect that +Andrew Wyatt, not Lee Ward, was the sole decision maker on the closure of the Fuduntu website.  The pullquote cited from OStatic was incorrect.   We apologize for any misunderstanding that may have resulted from this error.] So it has been decided by +Lee...

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Turbo Charge Yum with Fastest Mirror and AxelGet Plugins

by Dietrich Schmitz Holy Crap. I just finished adding AxelGet to Fedora 18. What does it do?   Well, it speeds up your yum downloads by opening multiple ports in parallel, which in turn speeds up your update experience, dramatically. Now, I've always done my iso downloads using Axel which is the same protocol for AxelGet called by yum.  The axel protocol is arguably faster than any bittorrent.  Just pass the url of a given...

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Stop the Linux Desktop Madness: You Have Options

by Dietrich Schmitz With all of the insane decision making that has taken place at Canonical with Unity and The Gnome Project with Gnome 3.8 just out, it can make a grown Man cry in despair. But fear not.  Hope is on the horizon.  You do fortunately have Desktop alternatives to avoid the madness and chaos that looms. I'll cover a few of them here so at least you are apprised of your options. Xfce I currently enjoy the serenity of...

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The Achilles Heel of Open Source: Elitism

by Dietrich Schmitz The premise has always been that open source development should thrive and be guided by consensus and openness. Consensus in the sense that a community who share in the development of a given application or Linux Distro energizes participation and guides teamwork when all recognize they have a role in moving toward a desired group goal in a cooperative effort. The idea that computer software source code can be shared and...

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Red Hat Linux is Here Today and Now

by Dietrich Schmitz I've been biding my time for several years with Ubuntu Linux.  What? Oh, that's right, they aren't using the 'L' word any more--it's now just plain Ubuntu.  As if that is going to help their cause?  I doubt it. Color me doubtful because Canonical haven't gained real traction in the U.S. to speak of.  At what point do you cut bait with a company run by an elitist millionaire who likes to have things his...

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The Rise of 'Open Source': It's Not Just About Software

by Katherine Noyes  Here in the tech world, it's become increasingly common to see market research and reports testifying to the growing ubiquity of open source software, such as the one just last week from Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners indicating that open source is “eating” the software world, as the authors put it. What's typically not recognized, however, is that this trend toward openness in software...

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