As an experiment I’ve created a bulletin board (forums) for the show. I don’t know if there’s any interest in using them, but the link is below.
If you post something for me you won’t get a reply until Monday-ish. Imma camping for Canada Day!
Forum link.

The Oregonian (Oregon being the state where Linus Torvalds - the creator of Linux - lives and works) ran a small little article with some random thoughts of Linus’ in it. It’s whimsical and gives you a little insight into Linus’ mind.

In show number 4 I incorrectly stated that apt-get can be used to install local *.deb files. While this is technically true, it’s not what I was getting at. To install local *.deb files it’s much easier to use the dpkg application as follows:
dpkg -i packagename.deb
Thanks to Justin for pointing that out. Man, I can’t […]

Richard Schwalb has penned an interesting read on his take on the future of the computer market. He predicts that within 5-10 years Linux will have 20%-ish of the desktop market. Not a huge number, but interesting nevertheless.
Sometimes we (meaning North Americans) forget that there’s an entire planet with different cultures, different government styles, and […]

The Linux User Show #004 (MP3 – 22MB – 65min 13sec)
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Programs, programs: where do you find them; how do you install them; how do you find them once they’ve been installed; how do you delete them…it’s all here in this week’s show. It’s a long show, but it has to be. There’s […]

I just had to share this. The names for Ubuntu’s releases are:

4.10 (The Warty Warthog)
5.04 (The Hoary Hedgehog)
5.10 (The Breezy Badger) - not out yet

Aren’t the names enough to make you want to try it out?

I thought that the RSS feed used to subscribe to the show was down this morning, but apparently I was wrong. Here’s what happened:
I clicked the RSSS 2.0 button and was presented with basically the html of the blog entries, but not a proper looking RSS feed. Based on that I thought it was down. […]

Ubuntu is giving away free CDs INCLUDING SHIPPING!

Frugalware, KateOS, and Knoppix LIve CD 4.0 is out!

I think the biggest comment I hear about Linux is that it’s hard to install programs because of all the compiling usually required, and hard to find them once they are installed.