Archive for the 'Linux' Tag

Get Ubuntu
And apparently the next release will be called… Feisty Fawn?? Huh. I think I like that better than Edgy Eft. You know what? It might just be my favorite name yet.

Anyone who’s been paying attention knows about the Firefox trademark thing by now. To wit: Firefox is open source, which means anyone can do anything they want with the source code. But, Mozilla wants to protect their trademark, so if you change the source code and make your own special version of Firefox, you may [...]

God, it’s amazing what running Linux for a year will do to you.
I use Xubuntu. It was free for me to download, it was a snap to install, and I’m free to change absolutely anything I want. Every 6 months a new version of the OS comes out, and upgrading is a simple matter of [...]

So, I was reading ubuntuforums and someone in the support forum asked what the Linux equivalents were for scandisk and defrag, and I realized I didn’t actually know how to “scandisk” a Linux hard drive, having never actually needed to do it.
I think this should be used as a selling point for Linux, like so:

Linux: [...]

White supremacists hate it.
Frankly, this shouldn’t have surprised me, but they object to the multiculturalism (of course) and the fact that the name “Ubuntu” comes from an African word (of course), and they think Mark Shuttleworth is a race traitor (of course). Vive Ubuntu! Stormfront can kiss my ass.