It’s true. Even Tyme White over at the Microsoft Show can’t keep away from GNU/Linux.
She probably thought I wouldn’t catch her little jab at me in her episode number 7, but thanks to loyal GNU/Linux listener John - Tyme was caught!
See Tyme? That’s what MS will never get. The sense of community we open-sourcers and […]

Hi TPN listeners and fans,
Between the 29th of September and the 3rd of October, The Podcast Network web site will be undergoing some major server work that will increase (fingers crossed) both the speed and the reliability of the service you have come to love and cherish ;)
Access to the web site and the functionality […]

Weeee’reee baaaack!
OK, we were never hear before, this is new groud.
My Soopah-Secret project that Pat figured out is live today. Newlinuxuser.com is open for business with HowTos and Explanations for new linux users.
The sad thing is that my final template isn’t ready yet. Therefore the launch is kind of underwhelming. I was hoping for the […]

I was contacted today by Shane Schick from ITBusiness.ca to do a telephone interview about the show. I was pretty flattered that he wanted to talk to me, so of course I did!
As with all media things, the results are kind of…well…mediocre. I guess I technically said all the things Shane wrote, but I don’t […]

The GNU/Linux User Show #017 (MP3 23.6MB - 68min 30sec)
The GNU/Linux User Show #017 (OGG 40.5MB - 68min 30sec)
MP3: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
OGG: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
A looong show this time! This week we talk about GNU/Linux security issues for the home desktop user. I’m not an expert in this field by any […]

KDE 3.5 BETA is out on the KDE site. I used the Konstruct program to download and build the packages. After several hours I got bored of watching the screen scroll by and went to bed. When I got up in the morning, the install had crapped out.
I foolishly closed the terminal window before writing […]

tar -xzvf ftl-travel-2.1.tar.gz
cd ftl-travel-2.1
./configure
make
su -c “make install”

Does this piece of text seem familiar, but scary at the same time? If so, you might want to check out Marcel Gagne’s ‘The Extract and Build Five-Step”.
Sometimes there’s no package available for an application we want to use, or the latest package available isn’t the latest version of […]

Listener Tony alerted me to this.
Normally I would consider this too geeky for a beginner GNU/Linux audience (not that you guys can’t handle it, just that you might not care this early in the game!) but I think the idea behind the Linux Standard Base (LSB) project bears discussion.
I wrote a little article on this […]

A big thanks to all that contributed towards the test machine fundraiser on Fundable.org. Unfortunately not enough money was raised, so that means no test machine to Kelly Penguin Girl and me.
On the lighter side, this means that everyone who contributed gets their money back :)
I’ve actually done some re-wiring of my house over the […]

There’s been a few requests for a quick and dirty listing of all the shows so far. I’ve created one on my personal wiki, complete with links.
I’ll put the link in the sidebar, but it’s here as well.