http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/ Our Hoosier Penguin uses common sense and reason to describe what moves and shapes Linux and Open Source. en-us 2009-11-19T17:55:21-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/11/linux-bug-1-bad-1.html Yes Users Matter If you want other people using your software, that is. There is never perfect harmony between devs and users, but it's much better to respond to questions with a pointer to a FAQ or a manual... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-11-19T17:55:21-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/11/linux-bug-1-bad.html The Internet and Google enable laziness in FOSS development because they make it too easy to abdicate the job of proper documentation to "The community." Telling users and potential contributors to use Google, mailing lists, and forums is not documentation.... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-11-17T15:11:48-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/11/fun-with-linux.html Another week, another round of tinkering and messing around with Linux doodads. The Ubuntu Koala text installer has a years-old bug, and Fedora 11 LiveCD has a showstopping installer bug. Never a dull moment in computer-land!... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-11-11T12:09:24-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/11/getting-the-sca.html I have a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 3050, their budget all-in-one printer, copier, fax, and scanner. According to the device matrix in the open source HPLIP project this machine is completely supported in Linux. However, I have a different definition of "support"... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-11-04T15:27:37-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/10/darl-is-out-far.html Darl McBride, to the glee of many, is out of a job. I think this signals the real end of all The SCO Group litigation, because I think Mr. McBride was hired specifically to litigate rather than run a... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-10-21T16:23:28-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/10/linux-users-sti.html Here we go with another round of Linux Today reader comments. Let's start off with an issue that has been on my mind: Vendors who boast of the their Linux-based devices, but they only support Windows and Mac clients. It's... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-10-15T12:44:18-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/10/using-foss.html I'm sure you've seen this is as often as I have, even from supposed Free Software advocates: "I can't switch completely to Linux now because I still need this $foo application. When a free alternative appears then I'll switch." They... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-10-12T14:49:22-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/10/microsoft-is-fi.html This PCPro story says "Microsoft is planning to make Windows 8 an 128-bit operating system, according to details leaked from the software giant's Research department." Is this really a big deal? Are we going to need 128-bit operating systems?... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-10-08T14:41:08-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/10/linux-radio-ads.html Ken Starks reported on his experiment with running Linux ads on the Kim Kommando radio show in Austin, Texas. Ken sounds a bit discouraged, but he shouldn't be-- it was a success and it proves that advertising Linux works.... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-10-06T13:38:00-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/09/mark-shuttlewor-1.html A few people took Mark Shuttleworth to task in their blogs for making exclusionary and sexist comments in his keynote at last week's LinuxCon. Such as Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth, A followup on the Shuttleworth incident, and On Keynotes... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-09-29T15:44:54-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/09/why-bob-sutor-i.html Bob Sutor, IBM's VP of open source, seemed to once again throw desktop Linux under the bus this week at Linuxcon: Possible futures for the Linux desktop - the full list from LinuxCon: "1. It goes away. 2. We stop... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-09-24T09:57:40-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/09/linux-foundatio.html The first annual Linux Foundation's Linuxcon is in full swing, and it sure looks like the face of Linux is still a bearded one, despite the Linux Foundation's grand claims of Community. Perhaps they have a more limited definition of... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-09-22T12:03:29-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/09/firefox-is-zapp.html Confession: I've never been much of a Firefox fan, but I am very happy for its success and I use it a lot. I have to, because even though my favorite Web browser is Konqueror there are a lot of... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-09-16T16:04:34-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/09/de-programming.html Way back in the last millennium, in the very olden days of Linux, most Linux users were grizzled old Unix graybeards. They saw Linux as a cute little toy Unix, but it was Free and free and fun. And... Carla Schroder: Country Geek cschroder 2009-09-15T10:47:24-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/09/too-much-choice.html Here are more deep thoughts from Linux Today readers. Or at least entertaining thoughts. Or insightful. Or annoying. Or something! Don Whitbeck settles the question of "Linux has too many choices" once and for all with irrefutable logic: "Let's just... Linux Today Readers Speak cschroder 2009-09-02T17:28:39-05:00