Putin says: free software
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has signed an order requiring the federal government to move from proprietary technologies to free/open source software. Starting with the second quarter or 2012,...
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I recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 LTS. Being a long time command line user I do work a lot with terminals. Xubuntu comes with xfce-terminal by default, which is quite memory hungry. It’s started via...
View ArticleApples and oranges
I’ve recently switched jobs and my new employer is using iMacs for Perl development. It’s my first contact with Apple and OS X after being a long time Linux user and also running FreeBSD for more than...
View ArticleLinux issues
Some of the Linux people are unhappy with the direction udev is heading toward (integration with systemd) and have decided to fork it. This discussion also concerns Debian as they are looking to...
View ArticleSmall screens
Openbox. The perfect window manager for netbook screens. No panels, no icons on the desktop, no useless eyecandy, no nothing that would get in the way. Just a simple root menu, keybindings and the dock...
View ArticleLeaking process info?
Wondering how to restrict your users to only see their own processes in Linux? A quick answer that comes up is the grsecurity patch, but that doesn’t cope very well with the apparmor functionality in...
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