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My Resume - My LinkedIn Profile - twitter: @scottmmorrisFrom an article called “Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in Vista, we learn some interesting stuff. It’s funny to me that Linux doesn’t suffer from the same problem… A nice explanation of this phenomenon is found in another article, called Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS. Oh, man. You’d think they would figure it out by now. I mean hell, they’ve only been making operating systems for 25 years, and only have about $40 Billion to work with. Friends truly don’t let friends use Windows, especially Vista.
In the best news I have heard all day, Investors bailing on SCO stock, SCOX plummets. I have been waiting for this glorious day for going on half a decade. I’m so tired of these clowns. Here is more great info from this article:
“SCO’s ride is clearly coming to an end, thanks to a monumental ruling last week that clarified the ownership of the UNIX copyrights. To briefly recap, federal district judge Dale A. Kimball declared that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights, leaving SCO without a big chunk of revenue and with claims that have been almost entirely eviscerated. The company said this morning that it would press on, attempting to calm investors.”
“‘Although the district judge ruled in Novell’s favor on important issues, the case has not yet been fully vetted by the legal system and we will continue to explore our options with respect to how we move forward from here,’ the company said in a statement.”
[How about you just give it up?]
“Investors appear to be bailing on SCO stock, however. At the closing bell, the stock had lost 71 percent of its value over the course of the day, reaching a 52-week low. SCO stock hasn’t been a safe bet for a long time, but some investors backed the company in the hopes that its claims would be successful in court.”
Heh. Awesome. I’m gonna buy myself a birthday cake so I can celebrate this 5-day stock snapshot of SCOX:
After a few weeks’ worth of work, family vacations, my father having a stroke, and the full-time job of having a 2-year-old and 3-month-old (not to mention work and all that other stuff), the great news has arrived!
Announcing full access to the ebook library for everyone who wants it! There were many people who contacted me about the YAST book, “YAST – Installation and Management of Software”. The common theme was, “We don’t want to have to wait through the course to get the free ebooks, we want them NOW! Because I like to give people what they want, I have made it possible for everyone to get every ebook on this site in 2 clicks. Hopefully that’s up to par for what you want. You can request these books from the form in the left nav of http://www.suseblog.com/.
Here is the current run-down of ebooks available here (and a nice, fat plenty more are on their way):
openSUSE 10.2 – Start-Up Manual (236 pgs)
This manual provided by the good folks at Novell goes over many things you’ll want to know when learning to use openSUSE Linux 10.2. The table of contents reveals the main topics of this book:
Investigation 101 – Gathering Information about Hardware, Filesystem, and Processes (22 pgs) – NEWEST BOOK
Sometimes, you need to gather information about your Linux system. This can be so that you know what is happening on your system, or so that you can install hardware, or so that you can better describe details to other people who are trying to help you resolve an issue.
As I was writing this e-book, I found that there are quite a number of ways to gather some very useful information about your computer.
Table of Contents:
YAST – Installation and Management of Software (23 pgs)
One of the very first things that users need to know is how to install software in Linux. This book is a no-nonsense introduction to mastering the basics of using YAST to manage your system software. It also provides a few tips on how to get all the latest software from all the great servers.
Table of Contents:
The Easiest Linux Guide You’ll Ever Read – an introduction to Linux for Windows users (162 pgs)
Last year I published this book for SUSE 10.1, though almost all of it is relevant to openSUSE 10.2. It was mainly written for people who are competent with using Windows, who have never attempted to use Linux but are interested in giving it a try.
When I was first learning Linux, I got so lost so fast in so many areas, it was hugely overwhelming for me. I was impressed that I was able to download Linux, burn it onto CDs, and get it installed. But once I got that far, I was excited, but my excitement was short-lived. I had no idea what to do next, how to install software, or what software even to install for what I needed. I didn’t understand the concept of Open Source software. I didn’t know where to go for help. I most assuredly did not know a thing about the command line. 10 years of using Windows was of very little help. I felt that though I was a fairly able computer user, I had stepped into a situation where such experience did me little good.
In the book, I try to explain some concepts of how Linux is similar to Windows, helping people become familiar with it very quickly. I also explain some of the most important differences, many of which are improvements from the environment to which they have become accustomed. The book also dispels many myths that may serve to hamper the adoption of Linux more fully. The overall purpose is to give people a bridge from what they already know to the powerful, fascinating world that is the Linux operating system. Because that world can be a little daunting at first, it’s nice to have a little help getting used to things. This is what the “Easiest Linux Guide You’ll Ever Read” is designed to do.
Table of Contents:
You will find the form to get the ebooks in the left nav on suseblog.com, my openSUSE Linux blog. There are a number of other ebooks on the way. These won’t take as long to get finished, so we’ll have some new ones for you shortly.
For those who have not yet checked out the free “Intro to Linux” course, that is also still available, moved over to the right nav on suseblog.com.
Enjoy!
Another alpha (7) is ready for openSUSE 10.3! From Germany:
Hi!
Alpha7 is ready, after 5 rebuilds we’re happy to say it looks good enough for
the public.
Important Changes Since Alpha6
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* Linux 2.6.22.1
* gcc 4.2.1
* libzypp 3.12.1
* the package set of the CDs are heavily reshuffled and with it the patterns
also affecting the DVD
After Alpha6 was more about testing the first integration of libzypp, Alpha7
is already 10 steps further in regards to libzypp. But we’d like to have your
feedback on the refresh policy of yast/zypper.
See Duncan’s explanation about the problem in the opensuse-factory archive:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-07/msg00169.html
A more detailed list of changes is available via
http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News .
Most Annoying Bugs
==================
* The initrd created doesn’t boot on vmware and on some older SCSI controllers
Call for Testing
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* libzypp/zypper
Give this good testing. We have good faith, we’re at beta quality there now,
but give it good testing and give feedback. The zypp team also takes positive
feedback.
* GNOME CD
The patterns for the GNOME CD were redone from scratch to fit on the i386 CD
without leaving out major software as it happened with alpha6. Unfortunately
the x86_64 ISO does not fit on a CD, but you can test it on a DVD. We wish to
get more feedback on the package selection (remember to list a larger package
to remove if you want one to be added)
Media and Download
==================
openSUSE 10.3 Alpha7 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media
sets:
* 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software
* 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc)
* 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc)
* 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it
* 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra
languages (the DVD contains support for english, french, italian, spanish,
german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer,
hungarian, polish) (the DVD has support for installation in all
languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media)
* DVD/CDs containing the sources corresponding to the media
We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6. Please use them
for download.
The DVDs and the source media are only available via bittorrent.
Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in
http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the
opensuse-factory@xxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list.
To download media, please use the links provided at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads
Greetings, Stephan
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