LonnieOlson

I decided to give [tag]Fedora[/tag] another try after a very long time of using and loving FreeBSD, Ubuntu, and Debian. I thought to myself that it’s continued popularity has to be a testament to it’s greatness. Perhaps it has improved over time.

I was initially turned off RPM based distributions long [...]

Slashdot linked to an article from Forbes that speculated the GPLv3 could "tear it apart". It, referring to the Linux industry. The summary on Slashdot sounded interesting, and RMS is always interesting.

Very early in the article I was upset by a huge lie.

But while Torvalds has been enshrined as [...]

The flat green plateau was a bittorrent I left on, and the massive mountain is Tor.
Last week I used quite a bit of bandwidth on my colocated server. Part of it was due to leaving a bittorrent of a few episodes of “Weeds” running for a few days. Those sure are popular, [...]

I am finally getting around to re-designing my network at home. For a long
time I had my wireless locked down, only for the reason that I don’t want my
stuff sniffed. I am a big proponent of sharing and openness. I found a great
HowTo [...]

I just finished reading this mostly great aricle at “OnLamp.com.”:http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/29/what-is-free-software.html?page=3 It has a great explanation of the Free Software movement from it’s humble beginnings, to the now exploded popularity. It also discusses the difference between the two camps, _Free_ vs. _Open Souce_. I personally feel _Free_ Software is the correct term, and [...]