Archive for the 'Software' Category
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
For Linux and Open Source in general, choice has always been abundant. However in both the Linux Server market and to a degree in the Linux “Desktop” market only a few major distributions have taken most attention. In my (future) spare time, I plan on evaluating new Linux distributions to see how well they compare […]
Posted in Linux, Software, Distributions | No Comments »
Monday, October 31st, 2005
The purpose of this article is to explain the potential problems in installing every package that comes included in any given Linux distribution. For the most part, this is a bad practice and is not conducive to becoming proficient in Linux for either a seasoned professional or a newcomer (ie. “newbie”). It is my hope […]
Posted in Linux, Fedora, Software, Philosophy | 18 Comments »
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
I’ve been following along with the improvements made by the MPlayer development team through their mailing list. When Fedora Core 4 came out there were some (I think many) issues with the choice to use GCC4 (the GNU Compiler). Many applications, such as MPlayer, were not yet supported. There were patches from other groups, but […]
Posted in FC4, Multimedia, Software | 3 Comments »