Monthly Archives: April 2006

Still no luck with Linux in retail

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/17/2006
A few weeks ago I took a trip to Micro Center to see what kind of options one might have for purchasing a machine with Linux pre-installed. Unfortunately, the pickings are rather slim. I've written up a short piece over on NewsForge about the unfortunate situation. It's too bad that it's still so hard to find [...]
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Anthony Towns interview

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/11/2006
The Debian Project just finished the annual Debian Project Leader election, and this year's winner is Anthony Towns. Towns was gracious enough to respond to several questions via email, and the interview is over on Linux.com.
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Linux Terminal Server Project unleashes 4.2

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/11/2006
The LinuxWorld Expo was not chock full of exciting announcements, but one announcement that's worth checking out is the new Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) 4.2 release that was announced last week. I wrote up a short piece on the new release for NewsForge.com, and I hope to do a full-blown review before too long. It's [...]
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Shared blogging format

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/10/2006
Wrote up a short commentary for NewsForge on content management formats, "We need a shared blog format." Basically, I've been doing this blog for many years now -- I've run it using Slashcode, Blosxom, phpWeblog, and (now) WordPress. Each time I've moved from one to the other, I've had to decide "do I really want to [...]
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