Groklaw has the story. Stewart Rules: Novell Wins! CASE CLOSED. What follows is a complete wrapup of the long standing case of SCO vs. Novell regarding intellectual property rights to Linux code. SCO has been maintaining that Linux users owe them licensing fees. They say that Linux is based on UNIX code that they, SCO [...]
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Slackware 13.1 Released
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · linux
Patrick Volkerding has announced the release of Slackware Linux 13.1: “Yes, it’s that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.1. Slackware 13.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you’ll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce [...]
Tags:linux·old computers·Slackware
Ballmer finally confesses: Vista sucks
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Microsoft
Interesting story on Yahoo! Tech Blog yesterday. Here is a link. Christopher Null blog Also see Reasons to Avoid Microsoft Meanwhile the reviews are statring to come in on Slackware Linux 13.0 Update Interesting marketing strategy from Microsoft. Our previous operating system was so bad that you should upgrade to our new operating system [...]
Blogging to Live
September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · blogging
My grandfather, Jesse Augustus Perkins (Oct 18, 1872 – Apr 19, 1951), was an engineer on the Central of Georgia Railway. The family moved back and forth between Columbus, GA where my mom was born to Savannah, GA where she graduated high school. Then the family did an amazing thing. They sent my mom to [...]
Tags:AARP·book of the week·books fiction·books nonfiction·fort collins·linux·politics·Real ID·Slackware·wiretaps
Slackware 13.0 Coming Soon
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · linux
A development release of Slackware Linux, version 13.0RC1 was made available on July 2, 2009. Looks like the production version will be based on Linux kernel 2.6.29.x Update: A second development release, version 13.0RC2 was made available on August 6, 2009. For me, Slackware is the Linux distribution of choice though I’ve used some others [...]
Old 770Zs Never Die They Just BOINC Away
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · linux, old computers, thinkpad
Recently we published Introduction to BOINC which said that older computers could be useful for processing Berkeley Open Infrastructure For Network Computing, BOINC, work units. These computers, retrofitted with Linux instead of Windows can contribute to the public good by looking for pulsars in outer space, searching for life on other planets, studying protein folding, [...]
Lynx Update
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · links
Astronomy Picture of The Day was added in honor of my sister. See Sis You’re No Valley Girl on this blog. Our links are divided into Blogroll, Public Interest, and Science and Stuff which includes computer science, BOINC, climate science, wind, and other things. Notice the link for Junk Science Judo. This material was produced [...]
Introduction to BOINC
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, linux, old computers, thinkpad
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It’s safe, secure, and easy: Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well yes downloading and installing the BOINC client software is simple. There is more to this than you might [...]
Tags:astronomy·boinc·linux·old computers