I have a cheap dedicated server running Ubuntu Linux — the 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron" release — with Kimsufi , the budget arm of French hosting company OVH . All their Linux servers (and FreeBSD servers too, I think) are provisioned with their own custom, static kernel. This, they say, makes it "secure". It also […]
(With apologies to Monty Python) Four well-dressed men sitting together at a LUG meeting, surrounding a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04. First Yorkshireman (1Y): Ahh ... Very passable, this, very passable. Second Yorkshireman (2Y): Nothing like a good install of Ubuntu Jaunty, eh Gessiah? Third Yorkshireman (3Y): You're right there, Obediah. Fourth Yorkshireman (4Y): Who'd a […]
As someone said on IRC this morning: "the FSF appear to have come up with the perfect plan for how to look like a bunch of annoying, smart-arse tossers ". Has the Free Software Foundation gone nuts? Update 13:30: I don't seem to be alone on this: popey , mgdm , ZDNet , Slashdot . […]
Yes, I'm in Rant mode again; just sent this to PC Pro magazine: To: letters@pcpro.co.uk From: neuro@well.com Subject: Wishlist Hi PC Pro Letters, I was pretty disgusted to note the completely haphazard manner in which David Fearon researched and documented Ubuntu Linux's "downsides" in your "Who's Killing Windows?" feature (p122, issue 156). He references the […]
At last, someone at Google has realised something that I and others have known about for ages: it takes ages to install applications on Windows because everything is disparate and has its own installer. On Ubuntu , I can fire up a simple Add Applications applet which allows me to browse a selection of apps […]