This is great news, I used to run Debian Linux on my server, but have dropped it as dropped it in favor of FreeBSD. Now that I’m testing the waters of web-hosting and collocating a 1U server I’m finding I can build a great AMD64 box for not much cache(!), and with Debian supporting [...]

There’s a nice interview with Linus Torvalds over at CNN, looks like it’s going to be on the air at 03:30 ET Saturday, and 07:30 ET Sunday. Not too indepth, but gives a good update to what he’s been doing. My favorite quote is about meetings, which I think are just as [...]

Here’s a page that’s just too useful not to mirror, some cat named Neal Parikh has a page he calls a MySQL Cheat Sheet; click that link for the latest revision, or read more for my mirrored copy for reference. When I have to do DB work outside of what I usually do day-to-day [...]

Ah, so my very first accepted story submission to the venerable Slashdot.org occurred today, and it’s a dozy. ”Sun today announced that they are putting their weight behind Ubuntu Linux. While Ubuntu has been many people’s desktop Linux choice for a few years now, with its Debian heritage, you can see what kind [...]

Alright, so now that you can run Linux and Mac OS X on the same native hardware that Linux was originally built, a more direct comparison of speed and efficiency can be achieved between the two venerable operating systems. (You know, because before Apple moved to Intel chips, PowerPC/RISC was tons more efficient and [...]

With full credit going to The Central West End Linux Users Group (CWE-LUG), here’s a TWO STEP way to install a base Ubuntu Linux on a computer.
For a minimal install using the CD and a kickstart file on the net

insert the Ubuntu 5.10 CD into the CD-ROM, then choose either step 2 or 3
For a [...]

UPDATE: if you’re using xterm in place of gnome-terminal due to speed, you aren’t any longer. The 2.14 version of Gnome sports a much faster gnome-terminal; it beats xterm for display by allot, and log startup is 20x faster than before! Wow, they did some work on tuning there!
Ok, this is a cheap [...]

UPDATED (10/27/2006): Old debs are no longer available, newer ones coming soon, I will update the doc once we can get to them. From Mezzo’s developer Ryan, “Currently there are not. I am working to get a new repo online soon. The debs that were there were out of date. The new repo will have [...]

Ok, picture this; a 400MHz PowerPC, 64MB RAM, fingerprint scanner, SD/MMC slot, and either 256MB or 512MB storage, powered by host USB 2.0 interface, the size and weight (a 3.5″ x 1.75″, 1.6 ounce) of a pack of playing cards, yes smaller than an iPod Nano! Yes, it’s the world’s smallest Linux server, BlackDog, [...]