about 10 days ago a journalist from the Sunday Business Post rang asking me about Linux in TradeSignals. A brief interview followed, but then 2 days later a photographer called out and took a picture of me stuggling with a laptop while smiling bravely. I prefer being on the other side of the camera..
Those of you who didn’t buy the newspaper on Sunday are spared the picture of me, and the article (unfortunately), but there is an article about a CEO who tried Linspire on his laptop and was surprised to find it easy to install and use.
They also put their obligitory Microsoft FUD article online too which is a bit disappointing as it’s quite misleading and repeats the usual MS line. Oh well!
Later… This was mentioned on The ILUG mailing list on Sunday, and here too, along with some more thought about the pro-Microsoft article.
Tag Archives: Linux
Linux: Tuning Swappiness, eh?
Via slashdot, I thought this thread on how swappy Linux should be would be informative but it appears to be very subjective.
I tested with swappiness set high and low, along with Mozilla FF, Thunderbird, xchat and mgt, I opened 3 2560×1920 images in the GIMP and performed a few operations on each. Neither setting affected performance much, except that with swappiness set high it may have been a little slower. That said, the GIMP maintains it’s own cache, and I have that set at 256MB.
I have swappyness set to 10 now. Not sure if that’s good or bad, or whatever.. *shrug*
Rekall, aka MS Access for Linux
I found a short review of Rekall via Linux Today this morning.
It has aspirations to be the MS Access of the Linux (and I suppose Free Software) world and while I’ve never used Access this little program looks impressive! The community supported RekallRevealed website has lots more, including screenshots and FAQs.
vi tip… recording actions!
This handy tip from Kevin Lyda is useful. Someone else posted about the record function of Vi a long time ago but of course I forgot about it!
GIMP 2 in Video
Via the Gimp User mailing list, here’s some good tutorial videos showing off GIMP 2.0. I must really install GIMP 2.0 soon and play with it!
Gimp Hits 2.0
I took one day off and Microsoft are fined (a not so huge amount in terms of their cash-pile, and there could be further ramifications for the Free Software movement.) the previous day, and GIMP 2.0 is released! I’d link to gimp.org but that site’s down and out. Here’s the usual Slashdot discussion on the matter including links to a Windows Gimp binary release. Apparently it’s much improved on previous versions!
Here’s the list of mirrors in case you want to download the source tarball now. Some mirrors haven’t updated yet, but gd.tuwien.ac.at has!
Digital Camera Support for UN*X
From the ILUG mailing list, this page looks like a very informative paper on general digital camera and computer use as well as driver support for various Unix systems. Worth reading the first few paragraphs even if you don’t use Unix.
Web serving on 2.4 and 2.6
Saw this on slashdot so probably everyone else has too.. Anyway, this comparison of the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels is interesting, if only to show that serving web pages under Linux 2.6 “more effectively used system resources and served 5 times more Web pages than the 2.4.18 kernel did.” Boss, can we upgrade now?
Linux 2.6 again!
Yay! I’m in Linux 2.6 land again. I couldn’t use it on my last PC as it would freeze for some reason (the machine wouldn’t shut down properly either when using 2.4 so blame the h/w somewhere!) Anyway, this article apparently is all about how fast 2.6 is, I haven’t read it, but it’s an excuse to post this!
My Settop Box – Easy Linux PVR
This project looks promising. It’s an attempt to make MythTV easier to install by supplying it with Knoppix. AFAICT you install the backend on your server and it’s even possible to run the frontend from the Knoppix CD on a different machine. Unfortunately the recommended hardware spec is well beyond any of the machines I own. That said, I’ve downloaded the ISO so I’ll certainly give it a go!