Linux

Free Electrons Conference Videos — by John Platt — last modified 2008-08-19 09:30

Here are some awesome videos (ogg theora format) of a Linux conference held in Ottawa last month. I particularly found a talk on Wireless by John Linville interesting but I've been configuring a new wireless card and computer.

Hikarunix — by John Platt — last modified 2007-07-25 16:59

A LiveCD derivative of DSL specifically tailored for Go players. The website also sells USB keys for about $9 plus shipping. You can play Gnugo or use their networking programs to play over the internet. I enjoy Go. I've enjoyed this distribution. I find it slightly mad, in a nice way.

IBM's LPIC tutorials — by John Platt — last modified 2006-08-14 12:04

IBM's developerWorks LPI exam 201 prep page of tutorials written mainly by David Mertz but also Brad Huntting. I didn't see it elsewhere on the website.

CSS and Plone — by Robert Anderson — last modified 2006-03-31 07:47

This is a talk on CSS given by one of the two Plone founders. It gives ideas on using CSS in Plone.

The Mouseover DOM Inspector — by Robert Anderson — last modified 2006-03-13 18:53

This Javascript hack puts up a floating box ontop of your webpage and shows you all kinds of usefull information about your documents structure and current markup. You need to link both this page for help AND the link off of it that you use to START it on your "current page". Once you bookmark the "special link" you simply goto your target webpage and then select the MODIv2 bookmark to bring up the MODI inspector on your current page.

Web Developer Extension — by Robert Anderson — last modified 2006-03-13 18:48

This is a GREAT tool for working on CSS. It plugs into Firefox/Mozilla and allows you to view and control the CSS, even to the point of live editing! Thanks Greg Rundlett for this information.

Wazobia Linux — by John Platt — last modified 2006-02-14 22:03

The first Nigerian implementation of Linux. The name is derived from the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo language words for "come". It is apparently based on Fedora. This is not a download site, merely a link to information about it. (Conflict of interest note: my brother-in-law--sister's widower?-- is the Eze Nweali, Uju I of Ujuru, and Ekwueme of Ohanku among the Ibo of Southeast Nigeria. He got his Masters from Brown in 1968 in electrical engineering and his son Amechi, the MIT grad is a computer guru so I'm satisfied the family knows about Linux).

Freesbie — by John Platt — last modified 2006-02-03 06:59

Free System Burned In Economy-- A FreeBSD Unix live CD for people who want to try a walk on the other side.

NewtonOS runs on Linux PDAs — by Tucker Hurton — last modified 2006-02-03 06:54

Apple's Newton operating system runs under the Einstein Newton Emulator.

Linux commands — by Tucker Hurton — last modified 2006-02-03 06:57

 

Knoppix — by John Platt — last modified 2006-02-03 06:59

The very popular LiveCD distribution. If you can burn a CD this will link you through to any image you might want to burn onto a boot CD. It will also direct you to some sources to buy or otherwise obtain the CD.

Thousands of tutorials — by Tucker Hurton — last modified 2006-02-03 06:55

A number of tutorials for things like php, css, programming, applications, etc

Linux Distribution Chooser — by John Platt — last modified 2006-02-03 06:58

Aptly called a release candidate, this short survey, intended mainly for newbies recommends a Linux distribution based on what answers you give it. Both the questions and the choices are rather limited but they are also soliciting feedback and I think they deserve an A for Effort even if when I posted this on Groklaw the reaction was somewhat negative.

FoX Linux — by John Platt — last modified 2006-02-03 06:58

A very simple distribution based on Fedora Core 4. Very interesting, so far but if you go there at the wrong time you will get a screen that reads "Too Busy! Too Busy! Too Busy!".

Linux Anti-virus — by Tucker Hurton — last modified 2006-02-03 06:45

Linux Anti-virus