Posts Tagged ‘ Linux ’

New startup page

After having Slashdot as my browser’s startup page for over 8 years now, I am switching to having Google Reader now displayed by default. I do this primarily because I am very annoyed by the changes Slashdot has made recently as it seems to be attempting to make itself more “Web 2.0″. When I hit [ READ MORE ]

Oh look, the hosting market likes open source

Saw an article by the ever-delightful Sam Dean over at OStatic blogs and it would seem that the list of top-10 most reliable servers run either FreeBSD or Linux. Being a penguin fan myself, I’d like to see a little more of the latter but I’m quite satisfied with the 1/10 offering put forward by [ READ MORE ]

Debian Lenny released!

Debian Lenny 5.0 has been released. Happy day![ READ MORE ]

Output coloration in git

I might be one of the few people who like color in my terminal but I feel that it adds something to my productivity when done right. I have a colorized prompt, auto coloring for ls and now I got git to colorize output. I changed the .gitconfig file in my home directory (which contains [ READ MORE ]

Finally, Debian Lenny to be released as stable!

Question: Can I have stable Lenny yet? Answer: Yes. Yes, I can. Saw this article (hat tip to Mukidohime)which pointed me to this email telling me that the kernel firmware resolution was finally voted on and Debian Lenny is now free to be released! It’s a good thing and I’m very excited for the goodies [ READ MORE ]

(= osalt.com coolness) #=> T

Great site which can help you find Free/Open Source Software alternatives for proprietary applications across the board. Check it out at osalt.com and poke about. Thanks to the site, I can now hook my windows-using acquaintances (yes, I do speak to them) up with Winpooch and InfraRecorder which are two apps I didn’t even know [ READ MORE ]

Better late than never: exactly when can we expect Debian Lenny to go stable?

Read a great post by Bastian Venthur, a decidedly thoughtful individual, about the ever-sliding release date for Debian Lenny. Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge supporter of the Debian release model and support it as a generally-superior way of doing things. That being said, as a user and a Debian evangelist, I would [ READ MORE ]

In search of filesystem, the ultimate

Even though I’m most fascinated by different programming languages, filesystems might be a close second. Kevin Bowling wrote a great piece on different filesystems in Linux and covered the basics like ext2-3, ReiserFS-3, JFS and the more modern ones like XFS (my current fav). Still, the most interesting is his discussion of “nextgen” filesystems like [ READ MORE ]

Git really is that good

I confess I’ve been a Subversion fan for ages but I was actually told to try out git a while ago and was finally convinced by the fact that it’s distributed so I can manage things when I’m not connected to the network. I’ve started by using it to maintain my org-mode files (which are [ READ MORE ]

Kernel-level VM for languages?

I don’t know if this is a good idea or not, but it does make me wonder. There are all of these excellent virtual machine projects and architectures out there but they are mostly in userspace. The few that aren’t are geared specifically towards virtualizing operating systems. It occured to me that something useful might [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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