Time for another installment of our look at the book Learning the bash Shell (In a Nutshell (O’Reilly)). Today’s foray into Linux Land: Unix Command Substitution.

I started this discussion a while back, and not it is time to continue it.
The Bourne Again Shell, bash, is the default command-line shell in Ubuntu and many *nix (Unix, Linux, etc.) systems. You can think of the shell as the most direct way to get into your operating system, and you […]

As you know, there is an effort to develop a very inexpensive laptop, and to give one to each of the several billion children living in non-industrialized countries around the world. (One Laptop Per Child Foundation.)
Naturally, since a very efficient, reliable and inexpensive operating system is need to run these laptops, they will run […]

What I love about African Bureaucracy is that it rarely respects Western hierarchical structures. I remember trying to arrange to get on a plane in Kenya, as were dozens of other people, and one guy kept waving around a small card he had pulled out of his wallet. “I’m a VIP … See, […]

Stop Interrupting Me
Your computer is, at its most basic level, a clock that runs very quickly, but as it cycles, it considers interacting with the electronic machinery around it. These moments of consideration are called “Interrupts” and it is only at the moment of an interrupt that something may … or may not happen.
Since […]

This is about playing around with Linux. If you don’t want to do that, move on to the next post. Nothing to see here.
Otherwise …

This is the newest release of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution. It has improved versions of many of the features previously already in place (but the previous versions involved more user-tweaking than idea) such as multiple monitor support.
From the press release, this is a list of new features:

Hardware management improvements - improved plug-and-play […]

Some guy eating dog food. He later tried Ubuntu Linux and liked it much better…
I’d like to recommend five blog posts regarding the process of switching from whatever non-Linux operating system you happen to be using now to Linux (in particular, but not necessarily, Ubuntu).
I also want to make a few comments about problems […]

According to Dell.

Claims made by Microsoft that Linux violates its software patent have not affected sales of Linux-based hardware, according to Dell’s CEO Michael Dell. … He said: “On the server side Linux continues to grow nicely, a bit faster than Windows. We’re seeing a move to Linux in critical […]

It appears that while, on one hand, Microsoft makes high profile threats about forcing all Linux users to pay them money … in fact as retribution for refusing to be assimilated into the Vista Borg, but under cover of patent infringement for unspecified patents, there is another company that is in fact, as of just […]

According to recently compiled data, the percentage of desktops running Windows and Mac OS has not increased in 2007, while Linux had doubled its market share. I know this does not add up to 100% but that is because Linux actually has a fairly small desktop market share. So now, Linux is pushing […]

I just love my Linux “calendar” command. It’s an old Unix trick. *nix (Linux, Unix) systems have these special files on them where dated information is stored, for the user, the system, or just because it’s there. If you have a Linux computer, you have several such files already installed. If […]

Or at least, I’m going to take it as an endorsement. Consider this:
Ubuntu is generally regarded as one of the more consumer-friendly versions of Linux, so the Linux PC experience is similar to what you would get with a Windows-equipped Dell. When you start the machine, the screen looks familiar; preinstalled applications can easily […]

According to a recent analysis using Google Trends, Ubuntu has definitively surpassed The Savior. Click here for more details

Click here to learn how to install linux. Click here to visit the Ubuntu linux home page. Click here for a recent review comparing Windows and LInux.
“Today I visited PC World (London, UK) because my 5-month-old laptop has developed a manufacturing fault: the hinge to the display has started to crack the […]