Tag Archives: Open Source

Real Linux advocates educate, not humiliate

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/6/2009
Checking Twitter yesterday I caught a link to "Command Line Idiocy," a post that rips apart an article on "10 powerful CLI tools."  Here's a short sample of the flavor of the piece: It would seem Linux users can’t catch a break. Every year, blow-hard journalists will try out a Linux LiveCD, decide it’s actually [...]
Posted in Linux, Linux.com, Open Source, openSUSE | Also tagged , , | 29 Comments

Vim 301: Getting Adept at Vim

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/5/2009
If you've read and worked with the previous two tutorials on Vim, you're probably getting reasonably comfortable with the editor. At this point, you should be able to get around very nicely. This time around, I'd like to look at some more advanced features and demonstrate briefly how to set up a Vim configuration file, [...]
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Know your audience: Going beyond "true believers"

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 10/19/2009
In line with my post last week about how to market FOSS, and what to lead with, Seth Godin talks about listening to the true believers. In short, if you look at just about any topic area you'll find "true believers" who are deeply involved with the issue at hand, but largely out of sync [...]
Posted in Linux.com, PR and marketing, openSUSE | Also tagged , | 2 Comments

KMail, IMAP, and GMail

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/29/2008
Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this... I'm using KMail for a GMail account to get mail via IMAP. At least two or three times a day, I have to restart KMail because it just hangs trying to refresh folders via IMAP. Anyone else seeing this issue? And, does anyone know if this is common with [...]
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