Comment It's already patented (Score 1) 250
I have a patent on patenting obvious, trivial ideas. You'll be hearing from my lawyers...
The Future of Portable Linux Distros 107
i_want_you_to_throw_ sends in a Tech Radar piece about the various portable Linux distributions, focusing on operating systems like Android, Chrome OS, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. The article compares the distributions designed for similar purposes and discusses where they will likely go in the future.
"As UNR is built on Ubuntu, it's highly likely that we'll see almost as many UNR respins as we have for the parent distribution. We've already seen one example in Jolicloud, and we'd put money on many community distributions, such as Linux Mint or Crunchbang offering a UNR overhaul alongside their standard desktop installations. It's also likely that Canonical will be able to forge stronger relationships with companies like Dell, which is already shipping a specific version of UNR on its Mini 9 platform. As Windows XP is phased out and the cost of bundling Windows 7 rises, manufacturers will be looking for a cheap and easily maintainable netbook OS, and UNR fits the bill admirably."
Comment Re:she? (Score 1) 94
It's funny that people who get upset about using he as a generic pronoun probably don't care a bit when a group of people of both sexes (or even all females) is referred to as "you guys."
Comment Re:A case of the pundays (Score 1) 376
You mean GNU/Linus, don't you?
Comment Re:The people running the site ARE NOT IT Admins (Score 1) 780
This was a great site; I'm surprised more Slashdotters aren't familiar with it. I've downloaded plenty of flight sim expansion stuff from it -- in the best tradition of open source the site consisted free downloads contributed by the fs community. It's very upsetting that all that work is gone, and I blame whoever did it, not the site owners. Otherwise it is like blaming the architects of the WTS for not making the towers plane-proof.
Comment Re:strategy (Score 1) 346
I migrated from SVN (actually SVK) to git; I used git-svn initially to keep my centralized svn repository up to date, but eventually I did too many merges of too many local branches and now I can't dcommit back to svn. But... I like git so much that I chucked svn and now use GitHub as my central repository.
Comment Re:My favorites (Score 1) 381
Redneck Rampage -- complete with biker dudes, cheerleaders, vixens, trailer parks, cow pies, whoop-ass and toilet monsters in today's modern graphics.
Comment Re:I hope this is better than SuSE 11. (Score 1) 173
I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but apparently it is a problem with ReiserFS and the Beagle search program. I turned off Beagle and it stopped freezing. Other option is to change to a different FS like ext3. I would check and see if you have ReiserFS (this is especially likely if you upgraded from earlier Suse, as Reiser was default).
How To Make Money With Free Software 81
bmsleight writes "The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition to design not a building, but rather the new 5-Euro commemorative coin. The theme was 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winning design was made 100% with free software, mainly Python, but also including The Gimp, Inkscape, Phatch, and Ubuntu. The design is amazing — the head of Queen Beatrix is made up of the names of architects based on their popularity in Yahoo searches (rendered in a font of the artist's own devising). In the end the artist, Stani Michiels, had to collaborate closely on location with technicians of the Royal Dutch Mint, so all the last bits were done on his Asus Eee PC. Soon, 350,000 Dutch people will use and enjoy the fruits of free software."
Gentoo 2005.0 Released 425
mintshows writes "According to Gentoo Planet, the first gentoo release of the year, 2005.0, is out. You can download the 2005.0 ISOs from the torrents at http://torrents.gentoo.org/ . Of course, current Gentoo users can just emerge to the latest and greatest as always."
