Happy New Year and all that stuff!

Blaming Dell,  Ubuntu 9.10 released Oct, and my laptop experiences with it.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted much more than the meeting notices, but here goes nothing.

Have you wondered if installing the 32-bit or 64-bit version of your favorite Linux distro onto that new 64-bit Desktop or Laptop would make a difference? Well the people at Phoronix have the results of their benchmarks posted. After their extensive testing the winner is???  64-bit!

If you have a system with a 64-bit CPU, go right ahead and do a fresh install. Wait, how do you know you have such a system? You can run a simple command to tell - lshw -C cpu” from any terminal. If the “width” parameter says 64, then you have a 64-bit system.

Be sure to backup your /home to an external device - just in case and any other oddball partitions you might have setup, though most users only setup /, /home and a swap.

Enjoy!

nomasteryoda

Saturday JANUARY 16, 2010 - 2-4 pm

Atlanta Bread Company

Watson Blvd, Warner Robins Georgia,  31088

That’s what the Washington Post says in this article.  Of course Linux users have known Linux was safer, and now the rest of the world knows.

This was an Awesome conference. If you want to listen to the presentations, click this link.  This was the first annual SELF and it happened June 13, 2009 at Clemson University, Hendrix Student Center, Clemson,  South Carolina.

We need to do what we can to support this excellent endeavor for 2010!!

Joining them on irc for a chat:  Channel #southeastlinuxfest on irc.freenode.net.

site link: Southeast|LinuxFest

nomasteryoda

UBUNTU Jaunty Jackalope Release Party!!!

Our monthly meeting was the Ubuntu 9.04 release party! Fun was had by all!

last meeting was…

2-6pm Saturday, April 25, 2009
Atlanta Bread Company
Watson Blvd
Warner Robins, GA

Dec 9, 2008, 17 :05 UTC
What follows is a blog posting from Helios’ blog…

When will our Educators Learn?

–nomasteryoda

“Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows.

Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.”This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them…”  Click for the Complete Story

Dell is selling more Ubuntu desktops and laptops! If you want a good system, check Dell’s lineup. I use Dell systems and as consumer systems go, they rank quite high for a Linux box. You get support from Canonical, the parent company behind Ubuntu.

link to Dell’s Linux site

nomasteryoda

This video was removed due to “copyright violation”, though it is fully covered under the fair use doctrine as it is a parody or mashup of the original work. The video is available upon request at our LUG meetings. You can also find it elsewhere on the web if you search long and hard.

Losing your Linux Jedi Knight abilities??

I found this bit in my iGoogle news feed today I realized this really is happening. The value of continuing to use your hard-earned skills is very important to maintaining any ability you even possibly hope to accomplish in the future…
Hope you enjoy reading… click the link to read the rest at his site. … nomasteryoda

Your Linux Skills - Use them or lose them

Bluetooth is a wonderful technology when it works. I have used a laptop with built-in Bluetooth support for over 2 years. What I do mainly with my bluetooth is use a small IOgear bluetooth mouse. This makes things so simple with zero dongles for connection. Nothing to break your USB ports or get in the way, plus you have the ports free for other things like a light or USB flash stick. Read more »

Virtualbox gets OpenGL Accelleration!!

Sun Microsystems has announced the release this morning of VirtualBox 2.1 with OpenGL acceleration on the guest operating systems.

read the rest over at phronix.com